🎧 From Brexit to Scottish Independence

Episode summary: We try to join the dots from the final days of the Brexit negotiations to the looming prospect of another referendum on Scottish independence. Can the government really risk a no-deal outcome? Will the SNP still hold a referendum if the courts say no? What will Labour do? Plus we ask how COVID politics intersects with the fate of the Union. With Helen Thompson, Anand Menon and Kenneth Armstrong. Talking Points: Will there be a Brexit deal? - We know the concessions both sides would have to make. What we don’t know whether either side is willing to make the concessions. - The negotiation that matters is perhaps the one going on in the prime minister’s head. - Debates over lockdown have reopened the space to the Conservative Party’s right. - The Eurozone faces its own problem: trying to rescue the EU Recovery Fund from the impasse over the rule of law issue in relation to Hungary and Poland. The Union is in a more precarious position than it was before. - The SNP is doing surprisingly well. That gives Sturgeon…