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Another day - remembering back to the leadership election of 2019. @DavidGauke told us why the Conservatives went for the by then unstoppable Boris Johnson 
Brexit party chair Richard Tice told us how ABB - Anyone but Boris had changed post those disastrous (for the Conservatives) European elections - and "did for the Brexit party"
.@OwenPaterson claimed credit for Johnson's win for the ERG
In two weeks time Boris Johnson will be replaced as Prime Minister.. but he has been a critical political figure of the past decade so over the next fortnight I am going to dip into @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive to paint a picture of him
Lets start with early Johnson. Former Eurocrat Jonathan Faull told us why there might have been a presumption that Johnson would understand Europe and the EU
But of course, his journalism in Brussels was about identifying comedy examples of EU red tape - it was on such a hunt that @OwenPaterson first encountered him and gives insight into his journalistic technique
so the second of @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive interviews is with @OwenPaterson - done well before the events of the autumn. Another leading Brexit supporter who was @DefraGovUK and @NIOgov SoS under David Cameron. Let's dive in
Paterson was a linguist and businessman working across Europe. Whereas it was the EU's treatment of Greece that pushed Davis to support Leave, for Paterson it was the treatment of former Communist countries
Bonus first Johnson sighting there. A very honest answer on the impact of Cameron@s Bloomberg speech (remember Paterson was in the Cabinet then
Two blockbuster new interviews in the @ukandeu #Brexitwitnessarchive. First up, the first of the resigning #brexit negotiators @DavidDavisMP. He had A LOT to say so do recommend a full read.
we asked about the source of his euroscepticism. Not his early employment at Tate and Lyle as some assume. He reminded he was Whip on the Maastricht bill. Described himself as a "civilised eurosceptic" (not a "bastard" TM John Major
DD was very critical of the Cameron pledge to take the Conservatives out of the EPP (the root of many of his difficulties with Angela Merkel as others have pointed out)
.@jnpowell1 has written an important article in @FT (£ - I assume) about Johnson govt casual disregard for Northern Ireland ft.com/content/bb92d1…
Lots of blame attached to Frost and Johnson. But I think he could cast his net wider. As @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive shows there was hardly any consideration of the consequences of a Leave vote in the decision to hold a referendum.
Read interviews here....ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness…
The latest @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive interview with @AJBMarshall is essential reading for anyone interested in how #brexit impacted govt-business relations (more on that to come from us - watch this space) - he led @britishchambers
On business frustration in the noughties at increasing red tape - but also concern it was not just Brussels to blame
.@britishchambers had an impartial stance in the referendum - but that was broken when its Director-General came out for Leave - and catapulted Adam into the leadership
so its back to Scotland this week in @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive with an interview with former SNP Europe spokesperson @StephenGethins. Lets pick out some highlights...
we start with the role the debate about Europe played in the 2014 independence referendum
Gethins was elected to Westminster in the SNP sweep in 2015 ... and spoke straight away on the EU referendum..but the govt did not engage at all with the SNP over the terms of that referendum - wonder if David Cameron regrets not taking those amendments?
yesterday we looked at the referendum day experiences of Hilary Benn, Joanna Cherry and Claire Fox @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive -- so today let's look further...
Philip Hammond was Foreign Secretary .. a eurosceptic Remainer.. he told us what happened to the Cabinet the day after
Read the full Hammond interview here ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness…
Its bureaucrat day @ukandeu #Brexitwitnessarchive where we feature interviews with former UK perm rep Ivan Rogers and former Commission official Jonathan Faull - two sides of the Cameron renegotiation. Ivan is as forthright as you might expect.
Rogers takes the view that the 2011 European Council was a key turning point - when David Cameron realised a veto was not enough
lots of gory details on how we got there.. and lots of Whitehall recriminations afterwards.. but what mattered is where it ended up
The latest addition to @UKandEU #Brexitwitnessarchive are the very personal reflections of John Bercow.. read it in full here ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness… but here are some snippets
Bercow rejects the thesis that a referendum was inevitable
But thinks Cameron just thought he would win ....
we have got a new @UKandEU set of #Brexitwitnessarchive interviews out this week - and on Wednesday our very own @hayward_katy is on a panel @instituteforgov talking about the Johnson NI protocol. so let's see how we got there... THREAD!!!!
all the Cabinet members we talked about agreed on the importance for May of not destablising Northern ireland - and her gradual realisation of the threat Brexit posed - this from @DLidington
and as he reminds us there was a pretty unbalanced view from Parliament in 2017-19 with the wipe-out of the SDLP and Sinn Fein abstentionism
.@UKandEU have just released a next wave of our #BrexitWitnessArchive - not as box office as Philip Hammond but intriguing nonetheless. a few tasters. Let me start with @GavinBarwell
That leadership contest did Theresa May no favours on Brexit. No chance to put some flesh on what her - rather than a purist Leadsom Brexit might look like
After the election, Barwell was tapped up to become Chief of Staff. Here are his tips on how to establish a connection with a notoriously buttoned up boss
