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Brexit: Is the UK spiraling into chaos?

October 7, 2021

The UK is facing chaos. With supplies of some key goods becoming scarce, the military have been called in. Is Brexit to blame? Our guests: Vendeline von Bredow (The Economist), Jon Worth (freelance journalist),Simon Young (DW)

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DW TTP - Sondersendung To The Point | Vendeline von Bredow
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Vendeline von Bredow is the Berlin based correspondent for the british weekly The Economist. She says: "Boris Johnson famously wrote two newspaper columns arguing for and against Brexit just before the referendum. He must deeply regret sending the wrong one."

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Jon Worth is a british freelance journalist and blogger who writes on EU and Brexit affairs. His opinion: "Brexit did not cause the problems the UK is currently facing. But it has removed many of the means Britain had to solve those problems.”

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Simon Young, political correspondent for Deutsche Welle. He thinks: "Boris Johnson says the problems actually show the UK economy is strong. But many Britons doubt he has a plan to deal with them."
 

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