Rory Stewart
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Welcome to The Restless Politics with me, Rory Stewart.
And me, Alastair Campbell.
Today, we are at the 10th anniversary of Brexit, and we're really going to get into how did that go?
And on the second half, extraordinary news, which is that it seems as though finally, despite all our skepticism,
We're on the cusp of a proper deal in Iran.
I'm still skeptical.
And you're still skeptical.
Let me start you, though, with Brexit.
So 10 years on, a bit of post-traumatic stress.
I was a member then of David Cameron's government, an environment minister campaigning for Remain.
Not hard enough.
Not hard enough.
And I was at the great royal show in Edinburgh, the agricultural show.
Royal Highland show, up all night in my hotel room, watching the results, David Dimbleby coming on.
And then of course, as somebody who then went to Theresa May's government, I was right in the heart of this fight where you and your friend Tony Blair were very much saying, this is ridiculous, we need a second referendum.
And I was trying to say, let's make the best of it and try to get a customs union or a single market compromise out of this.