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Right. Clocking off early from 2023. Wish everyone v fine Xmas and NY & If you're at a loose end about what to buy that Brexity uncle...can I recommend a small, but perfectly formed tome? Harmonious Christmas guaranteed. 😉
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NEW: The inside story of the Ventilator Challenge - the muddled thinking, the wasted time the political egoism. It's a mad tale. Stay with me. Me with my superb
@ft
colleague
@Michael_Pooler
1/Thread
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One thing the Cummings row does is distract from this crushing Sunday Times review into
@BorisJohnson
failure to get on top of
#coronavirus
in March. And the lives that cost. It’s long and behind paywalls, but some key nuggets../1
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This really is extraordinary. I didn’t believe it til I heard the clip. Choosing freedom from Brussels via
#brexit
is directly equated with the people of
#Ukriane
choosing freedom from Russian invasion. 🤯
Words fail me that this loathsome man actually just compared the Ukrainian people's current quest for freedom to the UK voting for Brexit
Just when you thought he couldn't sink to new depths 👇
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What worries me is if this 'how hard can it be?' principle is applied to testing, to PPE procurement etc.
The government needs to show some HUMILITY. It needs to LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW STUFF. I think this is a clear example of where it did not. ENDS
Good weekend all.
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Pitiful tweet. NO country in the world has internalised the lessons of Naziism/Fascism/20th century like Germany.
Must have been an "awkward" moment for Angela Merkel to sit in ceremony as the Allies commemorated D-Day that broke the back of Nazi Germany.
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Can we squash this tiresome trope that teachers don't want schools to open? Or that arguments for closing schools are somehow preserve of liberal/wet child-eating commies....this is about hard choices as the
#COVID19
is running out of control (R above 1) /1
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Even if
@BorisJohnson
wasn’t warned about the party, surely, when he sees his garden full of folk, he says:
“What on earth is going on? You know the rules. You wrote them. I broadcast them. Go home. Get back to work. Who the hell organised this?”
But that isn’t what happened.
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Bookmark this tweet. It's not "The Guardian" that is worried about the dangers of not having full checks on EU food imports after
#Brexit
, it's the flipping Food Standards Agency...and the British Veterinary Association, the National Pig Association, the National Farmers' Union/1
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So.
@BorisJohnson
is out. The politicians who did most to deliver
#Brexit
, both in 2016 and 2019.
I've read lots of the political obits, but my takeaway isn't about his charisma & bonhomie etc, it's about how Brexit required a chronic state of dishonesty to set in... /1
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SO after furious complaint about
@michaelgove
refusing
#Brexit
extension, the Scottish and Welsh govts of
@NicolaSturgeon
and
@fmwales
Mark Drakeford refuse to take part in consultation ahead of
@BorisJohnson
meeting on Monday.
Message: this will be an ENGLISH, TORY
#Brexit
.
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EXC: Inside Brexit War Cabinet:
- Dominic Cummings described EU negotiation as "a sham" in internal strategy meetings, per two highly placed sources.
- AG Cox warned Johnson it was "complete fantasy" to think EU would bin backstop 1/thread
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That winning formula:
- take complex issue (Brexit, Northern Ireland, Asylum)
- tell everyone it’s simple, if England was sovereign 🏴
- demonise those raising rational objections
- resign when you get close to having to implement what you said was ‘easy’.
Rinse. Repeat.
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Spanish woman comes to UK to see if she can find job to (then) get visa to join NHS worker Spanish boyfriend. Gets deported.
I guess this might play well in
#brexit
land. I can't help but feel dismayed. via
@lisaocarroll
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Today the UK govt publishes a UK internal market White Paper that extols the virtues of 'frictionless trade' and free movement: boosting wages, productivity, investment, business certainty and lowering prices.
Irony so bitter it makes your eyes bleed.
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Email flies in from U.K. holiday company in France: “Brexit has meant that we are no longer able to recruit staff from the UK as their climbing and canoeing qualifications are no longer valid.”
Happy days.
#brexit
.
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Oh my lord. It just get more bizarre frankly, the humiliations that serious Cabinet ministers are prepared to endure to save Dominic Cummings... I mean, how important is he?
Michael Gove has told LBC he has 'on occasion' driven to check his eyesight, but the Minister said he was 'not an authority on driving.'
@NickFerrariLBC
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🚨🚨🇬🇧🤡🇪🇺🇬🇧🤡🇪🇺🚨🚨 This is a story about how No.10 quietly shot down
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
the new
#brexit
opportunities minister…and a story that begs questions over just how low the bar for ministerial competence appears to be set. Stay with me. /1
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May: I'll take a question from some of our European colleagues?
British voice. "We're all European"
Laughter
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🚨🐷🚨🐷 NEW: how can the U.K. strike a trade deal with USA while protecting U.K. farmers and consumers? Answer they probably can’t. (And don’t be fooled by specious assurances on ‘chlorinated chicken’) Stay with me. 1/thread.
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The timing of this by
@patel4witham
is Just UNBELIEVABLE. Ponder this at 8pm tonight when we're all on the doorstep clapping essential workers...but the govt is sending a rather different message of how they really value many of them
#ClapForCarers
Today gov't decided to publish guidance for the new points-based immigration system.
There is no route for essential workers.
Maybe it's time to think about awarding them 20 extra points in the system to make sure they will be able to come in the future
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Scorching from
@EmilyThornberry
- never too late to start a fact-based conversation about the future
#brexit
Yesterday in the House, I confronted Liz Truss with her own Department’s report on the question she’s repeatedly refused to answer: what’s the difference, in pounds and pence, between her Japan deal and the EU-Japan deal it replaces? She didn’t look happy.
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The narcissism of this.
Dominic Cummings smirking as he’s confronted with the fact that Turkey was not on the brink of joining EU in 2016, contrary to Vote Leave campaign
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This is quite something...
Imports must be to our standards? Absolutely, said
@michaelgove
*TWICE*. He guaranteed it. Yesterday he voted against. Watch. 👇😠
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Watching
@BorisJohnson
labouring through these questions...keep seeing Jacob Rees-Mogg in the background. He looks ashen-faced.
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The Orbanisation of British politics by
@BorisJohnson
continues with the Owen Paterson move.
I'd have thought a reckless move, given that 'one rule for them' and sleaze allegations are ones that focus groups suggest do stick.
But who knows. Obvs, they are long past caring.
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So no harm done? No. Not really.
What this speaks to is the deeply worrying tendency of this crop of politicians to think they know best.
The 'cut-the-crap' 'how-hard-can-it-be?' attitudes that leads to headless decision making. It's embarrassing. /19
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It is worth re-watching this. Almost every, single prediction is wrong. Line for line.
@mrjamesob
Hannan did a video version of his post-Brexit utopia on Newsnight in 2016. It’s just as bad.
“Family incomes have received a triple boost: food prices are lower, fuel bills are lower, and taxes are lower due to the independence dividend.”
Farming and steel are also doing great.
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Over the last week I've had SO many conversations with docs and experts that remind of the conversations I had with logisticians, port operators, customs clearers over
#Brexit
.
Expert people TEARING their hair out at the willful numbskullery of the people at the top. /20
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🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🚛🍤🐟🥬📦✈️🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨
So here it is. After the euphoria, the
@FinancialTimes
@FTMag
long read of how
@BorisJohnson
did his Trade deal with the EU. Tl:dr...not so much “build back better”, more “build back the borders” - stay with me/1.
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Something very topsy-turvy about a world where election-winning politics takes the guise of a Lord Snooty stereotype making light of making the country poorer. Welcome to 2021. A year to make your head hurt.
Me: "Can we have a debate on the impact of Brexit and a region by region report?"
Rees-Mogg: "Brexit prayer...Brexit song...Gloria in excelsis Deo...happy fish."
This is the level of debate I've come to expect from this Government 🤦♀️
@BestForBritain
@Femi_Sorry
@Scientists4EU
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Letter from Manston…tossed over the fence by an inmate via
@BBCNews
Migrant girl begs for help in message in a bottle
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EXC: ⛑🚨🚑🚨🚑
Dept of Health wanted U.K. to pitch to remain part of EU pandemic ‘EWRS’ early warning system after
#brexit
- but Number Ten said “no” to preserve ‘red lines’.
My latest
#coronavirus
#coronavirusUK
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Genius. Francois says UK will never accept "any role" of for ECJ, and lauds
@DavidGHFrost
for negotiating the 2019 deal...which, um, has the effect (via Irish Protocol, Art.10) of giving the ECJ a role in aspects of future UK economic policy as
@GeorgePeretzQC
has noted.
A Letter from Mark Francois, Chairman of the ERG to Michel Barnier.
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🚨🚨🚨 Important story.
@BorisJohnson
promised no-one would lose out as a result of
#brexit
from loss of EU development funds.
But the devolved governments and local English development groups say that promise is being broken. Stay with me/1
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Not a parody account.
#brexit
.
Raising Dover’s M20/A20 traffic queues at PMQs today. Setting out the need for roads investment along with tackling Brussels bureaucracy & red tape.
#KeepDoverClear
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This story is important, not because of what it means for
#coronavirusuk
now, but because it shows the crazy places that an ultra-ideological position about role of EU law in future
#Brexit
talks can lead - and where expert advice is flatly rejected.
Let me explain 1/thread
EXC: ⛑🚨🚑🚨🚑
Dept of Health wanted U.K. to pitch to remain part of EU pandemic ‘EWRS’ early warning system after
#brexit
- but Number Ten said “no” to preserve ‘red lines’.
My latest
#coronavirus
#coronavirusUK
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As a foreign Corr over more than a decade (Delhi. Beijing. D.C.) I reported on U.K. selling itself to the world. I never felt outright embarrassed.
This is toe-curling. A global embarrassment, and the worst part is, that they can’t seem to see it.🇬🇧🥲
I found video of that Penny Mordaunt US-tour speech and it sounds worse than it even reads.
To be clear, Mordaunt is framing Brexit as a war and telling America it has a responsibility to be on our side and against the EU, "because peace and prosperity don't happen by accident".
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There is a lot of 'nothing to see here' response to leaked
@hmtreasury
assessment of
@BorisJohnson
#Brexit
Northern Ireland deal to
@jeremycorbyn
...but in truth there is a EVERYTHING to see.
Some thoughts 1/Thread
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Love that the Daily Star and FT have same weekend splash…just rather different headlines 😂
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We often hear
#brexit
economic forecasts were all wrong. Nothing has happened! The doomsters were wrong!
Not right, per fascinating new paper by
@DennisNovy
et al which shows sterling crash cost h'hold £870/year - or the nation £450m a week! 1/thread
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Stunned off my ski lift by this No 10 tweet - not just because of its brazen disingenuousness, but because of what it says about UK thinking on future EU-UK relationship. It is (again) shot through with cakeism and misguided belief that threats will move EU 1/Thread
In 2017 the EU showed on their own slide that a Canada type FTA was the only available relationship for the UK. Now they say it’s not on offer after all.
@MichelBarnier
what’s changed?
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🚨 “kafkaesque” UK Home Office refusing visas to non-EU kids on €450 school trips when booked as a group, with a reputable company.
#Brexit
PG Trips sent 15k kids to UK each year for 40+ years, and not left one! But they’re a flight risk? 🤯
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OBR sticks with forecast that
#Brexit
will cause 4% long run hit to GDP, and 15% fall in total imports & exports.
Adds "None" of new FTAs OR regulatory changes will have "material impact on our forecast"
Pace
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
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Wow. The abysmal state of this from
@RishiSunak
, who presumably knows he’s talking tosh. Which is the problem.
Sunak says he wants completely open borders between Britain, Northern Ireland and the EU, and would achieve it via a Northern Ireland bill that the EU is already suing us over.
Completely bonkers unless we join the customs union and/or the S. Market
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So. Some personal news. After 21 brilliant years
@Telegraph
I am moving on - to
@FT
to take up a new role as public policy editor in the spring. 1/thread
Yes, it had to be a thread :)
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Johnson: “It’s the prime duty of the UK government to uphold the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom.”*
*except when I wanted to ‘get
#brexit
done’ to win an election. Then I happily sacrificed it, as my predecessor said no PM ever could.
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So. If
@BorisJohnson
gets c.100+ MPs and
@RishiSunak
, after winnowing, gets c.200...and Johnson won't stand aside, and it goes to the party members, and they duly vote Johnson.
It's just a rinse and repeat of Sunak v Truss. And I fear with similar result.
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🔥🔥🏴 🥊 🏴 NEW: Edinburgh/SNP says it will fight London/Tories is they legislate to force Scotland to accept whatever food standards emerge from post
#brexit
trade deals. This is only start of how Brexit threatens to break Union. Stay with me 1/thread
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No-deal Brexit to cost more than Covid, Bank of England governor says - notably different to how
@RishiSunak
put it on
#Marr
. Must be horrible being trapped politics that leaves you unable to be truthful.
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It beggars belief that we’re back to ‘no deal’ threats again - and cab ministers who say trading with EU on WTO terms “isn’t so bad”. Seriously? What an ambition for any govt to have. No wonder the world thinks we’ve gone mad.
#brexit
.
Blog: How Downing Street is war gaming next phase of Brexit talks with plans to “sow divisions” among EU member states + issuing more “credible” threat to walk away
@BBCNewsnight
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The UK refusing to give full diplomatic status the EU's mission in London is baffling at at time when
@BorisJohnson
is trying to connect with
@JoeBiden
- because it recalls what Trump administration did to the EU ambassador back in 2019. Stay with me/1
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Another head-banging day for the £112bn UK creative sector that is starting to ingest how difficult
#Brexit
is going to make their lives - and how little the government is really willing to do to fix the lack of a 'mobility' chapter in the EU-UK trade deal. Quick update.../1
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It's OUT! The first
#Brexit
Briefing of 2021...which explores how unrealistic some industry expectations are about 'fixes' to the current deal, now the penny is dropping about what it means for supply chains and UK position vis-a-vis EU 1/Thread
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Amazing. 60+% of leavers in 2016 thought U.K. would stay in some form of the EU Single Market after
#brexit
- disappointment dead ahead.
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This is a brilliant thread. I keep talking to people losing their minds battling CHIEF etc. But read the papers? Hardly a word, which is as the govt wants it. Let’s see if weeks 3 or 4 the strains (which are real) cut through. 1/
Over the past 15 days I have not only been running my company as normal but I have been faced with largest threat to its future since it began in 1992. This is
#Brexit
& here is my thread on just how bad things are getting. 1/26
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Steaming
@guardian
leader on
@BorisJohnson
argues that his mendacity has become a “corporate enterprise”, aided and abetted by acolytes in Cabinet and beyond.
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All this. But the strange excitement around the govt’s get ready for leaving “investment blitz” makes you wonder. It’s just spending zillions to enable business to do what it currently does for nothing in a slower and more costly fashion.
At some point I hope that there will be some recognition that all of the people who said that leaving the EU would mean additional cost and bureaucracy for businesses were right and those who spent the past years peddling fantastical solutions that don’t exist were not.
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Flat-eartherism alive and well...we need to care what the EU does, because 47 per cent of our exports go there. Simples.
#Brexit
"I don't care what the EU does any more", Rees-Mogg says in his evidence. Not comforting for businesses who depend on some harmonisation. The EU is still our largest export market.
Also suggests we should look to India, not the EU, for pharmaceuticals regulation. Worrying. ~AA
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Read this. I just wonder if we understand what we are getting ourselves into here.
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🚨🚨🇪🇺🇬🇧🐖🐄🐖🐄🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨🚨NEW: Vets and farmers warn
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
decision to delay
#Brexit
border checks on EU food imports is "accident waiting to happen"...my
@ft
latest, revealing details of biosecurity breaches that already occurred/1
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Good to see
@Marthakearney
on
@BBCr4today
taking
@pritipatel
to task over the numbers of lorries in Dover - now 1,500 in Stack (M20) and Manston airfield combined - rather more than 170 that
@BorisJohnson
said yesterday, baffling haulage groups /1
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Remember the government wanting to "follow the science"? It is remarkable how far it is ignoring scientific advice on this new ultra-infectious variant of
#Covid
-19 by keeping schools open... both SAGE and
@imperialcollege
issuing warnings on school closures. Stay with me. /1
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Worth looking at
@BorisJohnson
face — looks very cross to be asked.
"We've checked - in France Poland, Germany, Italy, NL, Spain - no other country in the EU - not even N. Ireland - is seeing the kind of problems in the UK"
Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you !
#Marr
1st UK journalist I've seen who did this, AND to the man responsible for it 👇
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🚨🚨🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨🚨NEW research by
@thom_sampson
et al. of LSE shows
#Brexit
triggered "steep decline"in the number of trading relationships Britain has with the bloc -- with small biz hit hardest - my
@ft
latest. Stay with me for links and charts. /1
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The
@BorisJohnson
‘no deal’ threat strategy is totally illogical when you think about it.
No deal cannot BOTH be perfectly manageable (for U.K. audiences) and yet so terrible that the threat of it will force the EU to cave in.
Which one is it?
Raab on radio: we’ll threaten No Deal to get a great deal in few days after Oct 14 poll
That’s Tory campaign: can it hold?
@pmdfoster
today has Cummings calling talks a “sham”
Here’s chapter & verse on why Cummings is right
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Vicious
@MarinaHyde
on Brexiteers using
#coronavirus
as cover for costs of doing kamikaze
#brexit
... “the sweaty gratitude of a guy who knows that the unfortunate fire at a storage unit facility will take care of the corpse he’s been storing there.”
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Amazing. This story needs more air.
Stunning picture of Warsaw as estimated 100,000 protested for women's rights.
(ht
@BDStanley
)
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My, what big eyes you have, Grandma...and what big teeth.
#Brexit
Congratulations to Boris Johnson on his great WIN! Britain and the United States will now be free to strike a massive new Trade Deal after BREXIT. This deal has the potential to be far bigger and more lucrative than any deal that could be made with the E.U. Celebrate Boris!
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From The Times piece this AM on “Teflon Dom”...the prediction from an insider they’ll “go after”
@PennyMordaunt
for criticising his conduct. And the rest. They know who you are...they have “spies everywhere”. Wow. Good job there isn’t a real crisis on/1
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Priceless watching
@DominicRaab
floundering here....he does the full goldfish...
WATCH: The new Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told me the the "balance has shifted" towards no deal, but says "there's a deal to be done if the EU shows the flexibility we've shown."
I asked him what flexibility the UK government has shown:
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As a side note, this kind of treatment PISSSES PEOPLE OFF.
My inbox is full of people who daren't speak on record but are SEETHING at the way they were treated.
People who worked 20-hour days for weeks; gave freely of their time, energy and spirit for nothing. /21
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UK chemicals sector hit by £2bn Brexit red tape bill — double the original £1bn estimate.
But
@RishiSunak
@trussliz
persist with fiction that
#brexit
deregulation is net gain. Truth is, there are some gains, but more costs.
#BBCOurNextPM
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We're absolutely, 100% ready to do
#Brexit
on December 31st. No question about it. No seriously, we are.
Ah, I see. Permission to ask a question (and a follow-up or two) 1/Thread
As we prepare for the next Rounds of negotiations, I want to reiterate the Government's position on the transition period created following our withdrawal from the EU.
Transition ends on 31 December this year.
We will not ask to extend it. If the EU asks we will say no. 1/2
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An industry insider tells me a supermarket has calculated the cost of putting a single 'mixed' container (meat, fish, dairy) goods from GB to NI at £6,000 - or "half total value of consignment". This is a serious
#Brexit
issue. 1/Thread
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EXC: Theresa May leaves diplomats in 'disbelief' after presenting EU leaders with unchanged Brexit demands
My latest. Really. Nothing has changed.
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Lordy. It was the “threat to the integrity of the U.K.” that made it a deal that
@theresa_may
said no PM could ever sign it.
@BorisJohnson
did. Which was his right as PM. Who does that make the “threat” here?
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The state of this.
You certainly have revealed your colours
@pmdfoster
sounds like you’d rather cheap staff for your kids than having the sovereign freedom to get vaccines early and save lives... morally revolting.
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It's amazing that Ivan Rogers has to explain on
@BBCRadio4
#bbcwato
#tw2
why Macron/Merkel can't start talking to
@BorisJohnson
on a
#Brexit
trade deal - which has to be EU competence with the Commission representing interests of all 27. Alarming UK should think that could work.
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What do all these people have in common? They all quit. All were unable to win the argument(s) in the real world, where real deals get done. So they retreated to the sidelines to campaign for an ideal
#Brexit
over a real Brexit.
'We were regularly overruled by Downing Street'
Ex-Brexit Ministers reveal the truth behind EU negotiations
@DavidDavisMP
@DominicRaab
@SteveBakerHW
@SuellaBraverman
@CommonsEU
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The rationale behind today's
#gaymarriage
#supremecourt
decision ...as advanced by Thomas Jefferson.
http://t.co/YPce6gws7C
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🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺💄👠👗💅🏻🕺💃🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨
UK’s £35bn fashion industry warns of “decimation” from
#brexit
- big names sign open letter to
@BorisJohnson
urging action. Many of 50,000 SMEs on the rack due to VAT, customs and work permit issues. Stay with me/1
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This is wonderfully succinct.
“The point of this is not how long it takes a lorry to cross the border in Northern Ireland. The issue is identity.”
Jonathan Powell, Good Friday Agreement negotiator, says the ability to feel Irish or British or both "will be destroyed” if a customs border is put in
#Newsnight
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Without a trace of irony...
#brexit
Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes a clear breach of the Joint Declaration. We will hold China to the obligations it freely assumed under international law
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Incredibly powerful speech from
@BorisJohnson
- human, funny & such a strong argument at its heart about the future of our country. 🇬🇧
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Penetrating
@DavidGauke
analysis - most of the cabinet want a
#Brexit
deal but are afraid to stick heads above parapet for fear of offending the base (with whom they have been less than honest) and damaging leadership chances. Sad.
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Where government minister celebrates an agreement that we can keep doing what we can already do...
Welcome news for UK drivers 🇬🇧 🚙. We've now secured agreement with all 27 EU Member States to recognise UK licences WITHOUT the need for an International Drivers Permit. From tomorrow, UK drivers can continue to drive in the EU without an IDP (once Covid restrictions lifted).
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🚨🇪🇺🇬🇧🤔🤔🤔🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨NEW: post
#brexit
immigration rules are shaping up to kill the au pair industry - on which 45,000 working families depend for affordable childcare. Seems mad. Stay with me. /1
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🤯 so depressing. They must know this is all nonsense. Somewhere in Gove’s brain the cognitive dissonance stress must be at screaming levels.
@BBCr4today
Another looking-glass Goveism: imposing on EU-trading businesses the same bureaucracy as exports to the rest of the world, from which they have been free until now, they will give them greater "opportunity" to make those more bureaucratic exports elsewhere too.
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This letter from Scottish Fishermen's Federation
@sff_uk
to
@BorisJohnson
is so angry...the white hot fury of betrayal.
#Brexit
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EXC: So.
@PhilipHammondUK
has finally said it - the entire 'bucaneering Britain'
#Brexit
narrative is based on a fallacy.
The much anticipated free trade deals don't outweigh costs of barriers to trade with EU from
#Brexit
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Full interview:
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Weak £ tells us something. “Global investors do not like what they see of the UK economy or British politics. Breaking international law in a way that threatens a trade war with your biggest trading partners — to shore up a deeply flawed leader — is a “sell” signal.”
#brexit
My Sunday Times piece today: International investors are downbeat about the UK economy and don't like what they see about British politics:
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EXC: 🚨🚛🚇⛴🚨🔥
Logistics/Freight/Ports/Shipping all FURIOUS & BAFFLED after govt tells them it won’t seek waiver on EU Safety & Security Border declarations.
#Brexit
red tape bonanza dead ahead. My latest for
@telebusiness
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Tellingly contemptuous aside in latest Cummings blog, where he recalls telling
@BorisJohnson
that determination to 'Get
#Brexit
Done' mustn't be deflected "when officials start babbling about Ireland, the union, the rule of law..."
Brexit at any cost, as we know.
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