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Brexit and Europe

15/09/2016 GMT

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A panel of experts debate the future of Britain and the EU after the vote.

Jonathan Dimbleby and a panel of experts debate questions from the public about the future of Britain and the EU after Brexit.

The UK has voted to leave the EU and now the real work begins to untangle itself from the other 27 countries. Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, has said "Brexit means Brexit" but there is still a lot of debate about what that means in practice especially on the two key issues of how British firms do business in the European Union and what curbs are brought in on the rights of European Union nationals to live and work in the UK.

From the BBC’s headquarters in central London, Jonathan Dimbleby tackles these issues head-on with a panel of politicians and thinkers. There’s Chris Patten, Conservative Peer and Chancellor of Oxford University; Frank Field, Labour politician who also co-chairs a parliamentary group on migration; Ruth Lea, an economic advisor at Arbuthnot Banking Group; Professor Michael Dougan who’s an expert in European Law at the University of Liverpool and Daniela Schwarzer from the German Marshall Fund of the United States based in Berlin. 

They answer questions from an audience in the BBC’s historic Radio Theatre, whilst listeners from all around the world join in via the BBC World Service Facebook page.

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