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Blind Man's Brexit : How the EU Took Control of Brexit

'Essential reading for anyone anxious to understand the background to the Brexit debate' Tablet

With all the political infighting in British politics over Brexit dominating the news cycle, we almost forgot who we were negotiating with. Now, in Blind Man's Brexit, we get to see and hear exactly what was going on in the corridors of power in Brussels, and how the EU comprehensively outmanoeuvred the UK government.

When Lode Desmet met Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's representative on Brexit, about filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary on the negotiations, he could never have imagined the unique access he would be granted and the extraordinary story that he would end up filming. As the cameras rolled, Lode sat in on private conversations with chief negotiator Michel Barnier and saw first hand how Theresa May's government's negotiating positions were knocked back time after time. The results were aired in the BBC documentary series Brexit: Behind Closed Doors.

Written with distinguished political commentator Edward Stourton, who also provides a British perspective on events, Blind Man's Brexit goes beyond the documentary to reveal a staggering and unprecedented failure of diplomacy on one side and contrasts the very clearly defined aims and goals of the EU side. Many books have attempted to tell the story of what happened, but this one has completely unfiltered access to events as viewed by the EU, and shows exactly why, how and where the Brexit negotiations went so spectacularly wrong, resulting in our departure from the EU being delayed beyond 29 March 2019 as the UK was left in limbo and its political system in disarray.


Authors:

  • Edward Stourton
  • Lode Desmet

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 346 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Politics

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    Edward Stourton

    Edward Stourton is a Radio Four presenter and the author of eight books. He joined ITN in 1979, and has been working in broadcasting ever since, with postings in Washington and Paris and an appointment as diplomatic editor at ITN. In 1993 he joined the BBC as a television news presenter, and for ten years he was one of the main presenters of the Today programme.

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    Lode Desmet

    Lode Desmet is an award-winning international documentary filmmaker who has made films and radio series for most European broadcasters – ARTE and BBC included. In May, his latest film, Brexit: Behind Closed Doors, aired on BBC4.

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