Robert Paston
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388 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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Is that something is that is that part of what has come to pass?
I was going to ask you about that because you've got this amazing survey that you do of thousands of companies.
And I think you say it represents something like 10% of the private sector.
Is that right?
This is a very big and therefore reliable survey.
And one of the things I did find shocking was
was just, and talk us through this, just a sheer number of hours that chief financial officers and other senior executives were spending on just adapting to this new trading world.
As a political editor, which I have been for the past few years, living through those years after we voted to leave the EU and before we had the most basic policy,
trading agreement put in place by Boris Johnson when he became prime minister, which, you know, we came into effect at the beginning of
of 2020 or the end of 2019.
The run-up to that, I've never known chaos in Parliament like it.
You know, Theresa May had one plan and then another plan and a party was split and there were all sorts of votes for various different bits of what she wanted to do.
The MPs constantly threw out.
We had the chaos of...
Boris Johnson trying to send MPs home, apparently in the process of misleading the Queen at the time.
Honestly, it was parliamentary chaos like none I've ever experienced.
So, of course, if you were a business trying to work out at the time what kind of relationship we would have with the EU, it was impossible because none of us knew.
Do you think that if...
you know, essentially David Cameron before he, he'd, um,
organized the Brexit vote, had actually put in place any contingency planning for what Brexit might look like, you know, actually the cost of Brexit might have been reduced a bit.
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