Glen O'Hara
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I teach History at Oxford Brookes University. Occasionally I write about politics.
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Meanwhile, for good or ill (surely ill), this year and next we're on university bankruptcy watch. Who will go first, and will the uni going under be a surprise? Will there be a rescue mission? 🤷♂️
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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Only the British could create a university system entirely dependent on foreign students, and then tell them all to clear off. Only the British.
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A society that judges its educational system by how much people earn fifteen months after graduation is not one to be proud of, and not one that can meet the moral, intellectual and economic challenges of the twenty-first century.
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I'm not going to share some of the things GB News is putting out on Ukraine, but if they continue like this Ofcom should move to stop them. Having left the door open to disinfo for decades, it's way past time that we protect ourselves.
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Would Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron or May have behaved in this manner? No - highly unlikely. And therein lies the fundamental difference.
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It's nice when the scriptwriters bring the plotlines together for the series finale.
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I honestly think it could be over for Labour. The last nine days have shown they won't listen, won't learn, won't admit error, won't change, won't show humility. Their de-evolution over the last nine days has been extraordinary.
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Who won a General Election and was PM for nearly seven years. As against someone who has never held any sort of ministerial office at all.
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More fuel for my argument that Brits simply don't realise just how much richer everyone else in the developed world really is.
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I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of British politics until we can work out what the hell is going on.
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I'm breaking into my weekend to say that this story is a crime against statistics and should be immediately deleted. Inaccurate, misleading and downright dangerous.
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Utterly thick, utterly destructive. They have not the faintest clue what they are doing. Not a clue.
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Most offensive thing about today is that, yet again, the peoples of Northern Ireland get their fates kicked around by people who couldn't give a damn about them.
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Members of the Conservative Party should not have the power to choose the Prime Minister, it's a constitutional abomination and a massive standing risk for UK governance.
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This statement is unworthy of and beneath the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and it should be withdrawn.
This is what we’re up against.
The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.
I have a plan to stop it.
Here’s how 🧵
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The situation of Scotland's students tonight:
*No socialising outside residences
*Widespread lockdowns
*No pubs or bars allowed
*Increased security issuing yellow and red cards
*Very little in-person teaching
Thinking about them tonight. What a textbook public policy disaster.
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Just checking in as usual to say: unless you join the Customs Union and align with large chunks of the Single Market, there has to be a trade border on the island of Ireland or in the Irish Sea. I'll remind you of this tomorrow.
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So I wrote this yesterday. I was braced for a massive backlash. You know what happened instead? Big wave of supportive messages - and much less criticism than I feared. Very interesting.
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Another problem for Sunak: there's a communicator of an entirely different level in his own government.
I’ve been Foreign Secretary for 113 days.
This is what we’ve done 👇
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I suppose that in the end, the UK will just be the NHS, loads of border guards and four Trident submarines.
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Another one of my 'luxury beliefs' is that the British public would probably welcome a spell of Boring.
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This is absolutely disastrous framing that will cost lives. People who think they're good at comms have failed on that front above all.
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HS2 will have to be built. It's impossible to avoid, because otherwise - and very soon in historical terms - it will be impossible to get on a train from England to Scotland. All we're doing this week or next is making the project much, much more expensive.
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What's most painful when you write about universities? The utter, utter ignorance about them from outside the sector. Let me present some 'common sense' and reality:
1. 'It'll be ex-polys that suffer in the crunch': not really, many have few debts and a low cost base. 1/?
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I think the reason I'm so angry and upset about this is the liberating role the Humanities can play for anyone. My mum brought me up on her own on benefits until I was 12. My schoolteachers and uni tutors in History showed me a new world. Then you look at this grim rubbish.
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If you're a Humanities academic in Britain, there are now only a handful of safe havens: Oxbridge, LSE, Edinburgh and a few others. Elsewhere, probably about a third of posts - maybe rather more - will simply vanish. (1/2)
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You know what enrages me the most about this, now I've thought about it? It's how fundamentally un-conservative these ideas are - and just how un-Conservative. Bear with me here, I'm going to work out what I think. 1/?
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I'll say again: HS2 is **not** about the speed, it's about the capacity. You may not be able to get on a North-South train **anywhere** if you don't build it properly. This is such a disaster in the making.
HS2 puts direct intercity services onto dedicated high speed lines, freeing up space for commuter train services to run on the country’s most heavily congested rail routes. Find out more:
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FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST BUILD THE THING. EVERY NORMAL COUNTRY DOES IT WITHOUT ANY FUSS. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
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The members of political parties must never, ever, ever be allowed to choose a Prime Minister again. The country simply cannot be held hostage in that way.
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Rees Mogg is a parody of a backbencher who has never held office in his entire life. Why is he on my telly all the time?
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There are three solutions to Northern Ireland's position in the Union after Brexit: (1) all-UK Customs Union with the EU; (2) border in Ireland; (3) border in the Irish Sea. The Conservative Party has rejected (1) and will find (2) impossible diplomatically. So it has to be (3).
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Woke up furious to hear
@BBCr4today
refer to Arts and Humanities courses in HE as 'an easy life'. Lazy, out-of-touch 'journalism' that doesn't even qualify as barroom prejudice.
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Man helps to burn down house. Man blames everyone else but himself.
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Anyway, Putin is winning. He's demonstrated that London will only administer a slap on the wrist, subverted the official Opposition, spread doubt, division and disinformation in every direction. He's good at this.
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Britain's multiculturalism has **not** failed. We are a thriving, confident, stable, energetic democracy and we are for the most part at ease with who we are. I am proud of it. We are proud of it. It is this government which has failed. They hate what Britain is.
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I just read this by Douglas M**ray in the Sun. Now I actually work in a uni, and this is straight-up nonsense. Like the rest of this, none of this has ever or will ever happen.
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So now we're seeing the first finger-pointing at students' behaviour (complete with the inevitable photos), I'd just like to reiterate: they are doing exactly what they were always going to do. The authorities made sure they all went back. They own it. No-one else.
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I'll just invite you to consider this chart again (compiled before today's announcements). No country for young people, who are offered no hope at all.
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This Zelensky guy's war of ideas is just extraordinary. He's deliberately and I suspect successfully making a national myth in real time - in part because he understands TV.
⚡️Zelensky posts another video filmed in central Kyiv.
"There's a lot of fake information online that I call on our army to lay down arms, and that there's evacuation," he said.
"I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state."
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My last word this week is a question: how on Earth did we get to a place where the United Kingdom actually chooses to smash up one of the jewels in its crown - the university sector? How did that even happen? You tell me.
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I wonder why productivity is so low when there's a marginal tax rate of 87% for some people who earn £50k. God, it's a massive mystery isn't it.
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Historical note: Britain has literally never seen as concerted, determined and successful an attack on poverty as that mounted by Blair and Brown. If you're attacking TB, bear that in mind.
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The DfE and the Tories designed a student loan system that isn't enough to fund tuition or live on, taxes you at 9% of your income, charges extortionate rates of interest, lasts for **40 years** and which... makes a loss **even if repaid in full**. Hahahahahaha. 🤪🤯
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It's been very clear for a while, but the very real danger of a Trump second term means that we Europeans must enormously increase defence spending, and also enter or be ready to enter some form of Defence Union of our own.
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In these days of cross-party amity, a big shout out to those Conservatives who showed a lot of backbone today. 👍
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I'm afraid that young Elliot Dallen has died, and I'm so sorry to see that. I think we could all learn a lot from his recommendations for living, which he reflected on below.
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Basically, everything about pub wisdom on universities is diametrically the opposite of the truth, 40 years out of date and 100% wrong. Don't have a go at people who know what they're talking about with a lot of bore-draw clichés, you'll get rinsed. 7/7 /END
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Very angry today. The way this has been framed and covered in the UK is ridiculous. You're not talking here about 'following new regulations or be punished', but about a bloomin arbitration mechanism between a huge trade bloc and a massive nearby partner.
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The crazy thing about leadership is that *everybody knows* in Westminster. Truss has been a byword for strangeness since she was a student; Johnson for untrustworthiness since the same; J-Corbz for limited inflexible nonthink since the 70s. Yet still they rise.
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What on Earth is the
@ObserverUK
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that non-Russell Group Unis don't go beyond online lectures? We've been exhausting ourselves offering everything - and I mean everything - for weeks. Retraction please.
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Said it so, so many times, soooo many times. People underestimate Starmer at their peril. The irresistible, traceless rise of someone people discount cos he's a bit grey and boring. Keep doing that and they'll turn round and he'll have been PM for a decade.
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Speaking personally, Labour told me to f-off. So I did. Looks like loads of other people did too. It's not rocket science.
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For God's sake, the correct response when non-Labour ppl praise Jess Phillips is not to slate them and her. It's to take it as a cue about the things we could all do differently to come together. Why is this all so hard? Depressing.
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Conservatives in this country have wrecked universities' finances - and graduate prospects - for a generation. Now their outriders turn around and call it all a 'con'. Utterly disgusting, dishonest and immoral.
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It doesn't matter who leads
#Labour
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1. Meeting with Chief Rabbi, full apology;
2. Speech to the Jewish community, including JLM
3. Acceptance of JLM's 19-point plan from February 2019;
4. Sack for Milne and Murphy.
And so on.
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Camera cuts to: David Cameron in his posh shed, whistling tunelessly as he stirs manuka honey into his green tea and starts to think about his pub lunch.
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It's absolutely incredible how powerful the 'National Insurance pays my pension' myth is. Absolutely astounding stuff.
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People saying that
#Marr
defeated Farage have learned absolutely nothing from the past five years. People who like his brand of anti-politics will have been strengthened in their admiration for him. I loathe it, but you've got to understand it to construct defences.
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For a historian, one of the most worrying things about C21st British national life is its reliance on images and concepts from WWII.
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The bad faith work done against the AstraZeneca vaccine will cost lives the world over.
"The horse has bolted... people talk about hesitancy or reluctance, it's well beyond that. It's a refusal."
Sydney GP Jamal Rifi tells Hamish Macdonald only eight people came to his clinic yesterday for their first AstraZeneca vaccine dose.
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Well, on this St Patrick's Day I should say that this week of all weeks I've become an Irish citizen. I hope that all of you actually born or living on the island of Ireland can accept a new member of your extended community... I find myself proud and strangely emotional. ☘
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Why is this man still speaking? Why hasn't he slunk off in shame at the wreckage he's helped to create?
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I really, honestly feel that this country is such an extraordinary and fantastic place, and to see it in this state is heartbreaking. There you go - unfashionable sentiments, but I won't be alone.
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When real crises hit, they expose quite a lot of people as far smaller and less relevant than they thought they were.
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NEW from me: 2,000 words on the crisis now unfolding in Britain's universities. This could get me into trouble, and it sure as heck isn't going to do my career any good, but I don't care any more:
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So glad that
#GE2019
is over. Feel very bitter. It occurs to me firstly that I always conceive of my socialism as having been born when me and my mum were going to lose our house in the early 80s. And secondly that I bet Seumas Milne has never been made to feel like that.
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Maybe if you were a journalist, you could do a bit of digging and find out.
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I am deeply ashamed of my own union, and I would like to apologise myself for the actions of an unrepresentative group of activists. I am actively considering my position: I don't see why I should stay alongside such poison.
We think UCU members should be outraged that the STW motion, calling in a few words with little explanation for an end to UK arming Ukraine, was passed. We look forward to working with the growing network of pro-Ukraine UCU members to push back, while organising active solidarity
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Really think the Tories are in the midst of the most terrible error. Huge risks in a GE. (1) Remainers' last chance - they may well coalesce around Labour, and vote tactically. /THREAD
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A Customs Union. That's the option you're looking at. A Customs Union, for the world's fifth biggest economy, the EU's second biggest, 15% of all EU GDP. A Customs Union. Just because it sounds a bit compromise-y and reasonable-y. 😱
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Both now in disgrace. What a disaster, a shame and a farce GE2019 really was.
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Also: the Good Friday Agreeement has not failed. If you think it has, read some books about NI or - gosh, I don't know, you might even go there. Then you'll learn about how many lives it's saved.
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They're just out of control. They've got to be stopped before they pour tens of billions of our money down the drain. You can't waste it all on Old Oak Common to Birmingham - that'd be one of the worst public policy disasters of our era.
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Yeah, given that Covid has killed more than 1.1m Americans, I'm pretty sure this is... wrong? I mean, maybe my frame of reference is off or something. 🤷♂️
Nikki Haley: "Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down"
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There are no historic assets and liabilities in the pensions system, that's a flat-out untruth.
Nicola Sturgeon says SNP's position on pensions 'hasn't changed' since 2014.
First Minister accepts 'on an ongoing basis it will be for the Scottish Government to fund Scottish pensions'.
However, she says 'historic assets and liabilities' will be a 'matter for negotiation'
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Unnoticed by most in GB, Northern Ireland is changing rapidly. Not only does a Sinn Fein FM look mildly likely, but there's even a chance the Republican and Nationalist bloc will be bigger than the Unionist one. 'Non-aligned' parties will also do really well. All change in NI.
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Anyone surprised at the articulate and literate nature of this England team hasn't spent any time around young people recently. If you had, you'd know the truth... 1/2
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I must say, whoever orchestrated this extremely professional defenestration of a sitting PM must be good at politics. They should be put in charge of a referendum or election campaign.
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Quarter of a million quid from Unite for RLB to lose the
#LabourLeadership
election really badly. Imagine what you could do with that cash. What a waste of money.
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Feel so let down and frustrated when people call for 'compensation' for HE teaching during the pandemic. I taught and taught and taught, far more than I normally would, and our students got hugely more hours than usual. I hope this message gets out there somewhere.
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Genuinely shocked by this. No Prime Minister should be doing this. All he had to do was decline to gamble on any policy matters. Appalling.
Rishi Sunak has accepted a £1,000 bet from Piers Morgan that deportation flights to Rwanda will be up and running before the General Election.
The full interview is due to be shown on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm and TalkTV at 8pm on Monday (5 February).
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'Students can't go home for Christmas'. Don't be so stupid. What are we going to see, security guards and police struggling with parents at university perimeters? Twelve foot high fencing with turkeys pushed through? Don't be so idiotic.
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All of us at Oxford Brookes are very concerned about our student Richard Okorogheye. If you know or have heard anything at all, please get in touch with the Police using the details below.
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Yeah, you say that developed states don't crumble, but look at the UK:
*Second city basically bankrupt
*Health system's secret backlog
*Alleged it can't control private access at borders
*Care system disintegrating
*Unis on the brink
*Tiny army and navy
🤷♂️
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Thirteen days ago. I know it doesn't matter much, but I'm still fuming about this.
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What is happening in some of England's universities is simply morally unacceptable. How can they be invited back for the 'student experience' and then be treated like this? Look at MMU and Birmigham:
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**Unpopular opinion claxon**: Boris Johnson good at politics. Farage has surrrendered, Deal could go through with not much ERG fuss, Labour will be split, voters will just hear 'Brexit got done'. 1/3
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So I wrote another thing. Look, I'm trying here. Yes, the country's politics is burning down around us, but when people look back they'll say some people spoke up, and some people didn't.
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For the last time, the problem with full and universal uni 'reopening' is *not* the risk to traditional 18-22yo students (incredibly low), but the host communities receiving more than a million people into shared housing.
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Hilary Benn just stands head and shoulders above other parliamentarians on
#Brexit
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"Brexiteers' arguments have now been shown, after 2.5 years, to be fantasies. And the more they shout the more they cry in realisation they have not got a plan" Labour MP Hilary Benn claiming PM has “not been honest with British people”
#politicslive
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