What Went Wrong with Brexit & How To Fix It with Peter Foster

Interview recorded - 22nd of September, 2023

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Foster - Public Policy Editor of the Financial Times and author of the recently released book “What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What Can We Do About It”.

During our conversation we spoke about Peter's influence for writing the book, what went wrong with Brexit, whether COVID had an impact, the issue of free movement within the EU, can Brexit be fixed and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
2:16 - What was Peter’s influence for writing the book?
3:39 - Challenging for constructive conversations
6:49 - Promises laid out during BREXIT and actual implementation?
11:39 - Disaggregating COVID impact?
16:34 - Free movement was a big issue in the UK
25:17 - Can Brexit be fixed?
32:02 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Peter Foster is the public policy editor of the Financial Times. His brief is to break out of the bubbles of Westminster and Whitehall to cover all aspects of UK policy, including the implementation of Brexit, the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic and 'levelling up' agendas of the Rishi Sunak government.

He joined the FT in April 2020 from the Telegraph Media Group where he had held the position of Europe editor since 2015, focusing on the Brexit negotiations. He has more than two decades of experience covering global affairs from all sides of the world, based in New Delhi (2004-2008) and Beijing (2008-2012), as well as Washington DC, where he served as The Telegraph's US editor from 2012.

He also writes the FT's weekly Britain After Brexit newsletter.

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