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In the Balance: Brexit: What Now?

Brexit: What Now?

10/06/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - In the Balance, Brexit: What Now?

What does Thursday's election result mean for the UK's negotiations with the EU?

Thursday's general election in the UK was supposed to strengthen the conservative British prime minister's hand on Brexit. However, things didn't quite go as planned and Britain was left with a hung parliament. The Conservatives are still the country's biggest party, but they've been left without the necessary majority and fewer parliamentary seats than before the election. And all this has happened only a few days before the country is due to sit down at the negotiating table with the European Union to discuss the terms of the UK's departure from the EU. 

So how will the election result play out in those talks? Is Britain's hand now fatally weakened? What are the concerns of the business community? And what sort of Brexit should they be preparing for? To discuss these issues In The Balance brings together four people with insight into the matter: Jean de Ruyt, a former Belgian ambassador to the EU and a diplomat of 40 years experience; Jason Langrish, Executive Director of the Canada Europe Roundtable for Business, who worked on the Canadian trade deal with the EU; Jill Rutter, Programme Director for Brexit at the Institute for Government; and Lord Billimoria, Founder and Chair of Cobra Beer, Founding Chair of the UK-India Business Council and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. All are in discussion with the BBC's Manuela Saragosa.

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