Holywell Brexit Focus Podcast Holywell Trust

In the first of our Brexit Focus Podcast series since May 2019 Paul Gosling and Gerard Deane discuss recent developments in relation to Brexit as the original deadline of 31st October approaches. The revised Withdrawal Agreement currently before parliament and likely impacts on the North West are considered.

Paul Gosling and Gerard Deane discuss recent developments in relation to Brexit on what has been a very bust month. Included on the agenda this month - collapse of talks between Conservative & Labour parties, Conservative Party leader process, EU Parliament election results and a chat about Holywell's new Forward Together podcast.

Episode 17 provides the usual update on what is happening on Brexit and how it might impact on the North West. We also have an interview with Emma De Souza and hear about the new Holywell Trust Forward Together Podcast.

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The UK's withdrawal from the European Union will not take place on March 29th 2019 as planned and will now be either April 12th or May 17th, depending on whether Theresa May can force her Withdrawal Agreement over the line. Paul Gosling and Gerard Deane discuss the twist and turns in the negotiations and the events occuring within the House of Parliment over the past few weeks.

Guests this month include Ivan Ferguson, Ulster Farmer's Union, who discusses his fear for cross border trade and the Agriculture industry in Northern Ireland (in general) due to high tariffs in the event of a No-Deal Exit. In his interview he bluntly explains why he and the union want a deal. Professor Siobhan O'Neill from University of Ulster talks about Brexit's impact on the mental health of communities and the issues it is causing at that level and on an academic level, as further problems on funding becomes more and more clear. Finally Paul Stafford, University of Ulster, is leading a piece of research on the Community Impact caused by Brexit and he needs your help.

If you are an EU citizen hoping to reside in the UK after April 12th then you will need to apply for settlement status. Paul Gosling takes some time to address the "Settlement Scheme", it's complexities and how the process unfolds.

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With a month to go until the UK withdraws from the European Union, Gerard Deane and Paul Gosling return to discuss the possibility that we may not be leaving on schedule after all. Theresa May, whom Gerard met with recently, has been discussing possibly extending the deadline to withdrawal until June, whilst Labour has come out in support of a second referendum. Both discuss this and other news items such as Potential food tariffs, slow economic growth, but high employment and and costs for international banks in moving presence to other capitals.

Our guests this month include Mark Durkan who reflects as former long standing MP on the Westminster chaos; Anthony Soares and Emma de Souza considers the impact on the GFA. Paul also fields a question from our listeners regarding the All Ireland Free Travel Scheme and bus companies in the Republic of Ireland not accepting Senior Smart Passes as drivers are unaware of the cross-border arrangements.

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Since this podcast's first episode we have been desperately seeking a Unionist voice within the devolved Northern Ireland Government or the UK Parliament to discuss why they/their party backed the Leave Campaign during the EU Referendum of 2016. Finally we are able to provide that voice in the form of the DUP MP for East Londonderry; Gregory Campbell.

During the course of this interview with Paul Gosling, Gregory explains why the DUP supports the Brexit process, why he and the party voted against Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement in January, the issue of the border in Ireland and what he expects the impact of Brexit to be for Northern Ireland and the UK.

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