The Irish Times World View Podcast

Tory battle / Sweden's unrequited love / Merkel's stance hardens


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Part One - Who will be the next Tory leader? Tough, pragmatic Theresa May, who has survived the 'political graveyard' of the Home Office longer than any other politician? Charming ideologue Michael Gove, whose reputation for courtesy belies a willingness to wield the political knife? Or Andrea Leadsom, a hardline Leaver? Denis Staunton reports from London.
Part Two (14:30)- Elvis Nilsson of Swedish paper Svenska Dagblad laments the departure of Britain, the country with whom Swedes - and Danes and Dutch and Norwegians - feel they have most in common.
Part Three (21:00) - Germany's leaders, 'inconsolable' at the news of Brexit, have many questions to ask themselves about their country's role in a diminished Europe. Derek Scally joins us from Berlin to look at Angela Merkel's hardening stance on Brexit negotiations the remergence of an old idea: a "two-speed Europe".
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