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Our focus during #ConservativePartyconference is pushing for fresh thinking on refugees and asylum. While Home Secretary seems determined to stick w/ current - failing - policy, we've been working w/ voices from across politics and beyond to come up w/ alternatives: 🧵THREAD:
Our proposals are in a new report written by Baroness Stroud, our CEO @EnverSol, @alexander_betts and Will Somerville. It makes a number of pragmatic and deliverable proposals for a system combining fairness w/ compassion for those forced on dangerous journeys.
A piece about this by Baroness Stroud and @EnverSol was in @timesredbox yesterday - see here (note paywall) thetimes.co.uk/article/bca51a…
At #ConservativePartyconference watching speech by the Environment Secretary @ranil
Focus is on “e, f, g” - environment, food and growth.
“DEFRA is not a regulatory department, it is an economic growth department”
Focus is on “e, f, g” - environment, food and growth.
“DEFRA is not a regulatory department, it is an economic growth department”
I think he’s attempting to imitate Liz Truss’s 2014 “pork markets” speech here…
Commits to environmental agricultural schemes, but with a focus on “bulldozing” regulation
And in the next breath mentions that our beaches should be sewage free…
And in the next breath mentions that our beaches should be sewage free…
So the main hall at #conservativeconference is a ghost town…
But the pro-European @euromove fringe event is packed to the rafters.
The times they are a’changing.
But the pro-European @euromove fringe event is packed to the rafters.
The times they are a’changing.
And overflowing, apparently. Should’ve turned up earlier. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Great that some media is there to catch it.
A pro-European event at Conservative Conference absolutely storming it.
Follow @euromove
A pro-European event at Conservative Conference absolutely storming it.
Follow @euromove
Can Boris Johnson win back #Brexit Party voters? The answer to this question will, ultimately, determine what happens at the next election
@unherd #brexit #CPC19
#ConservativePartyConference
unherd.com/2019/09/can-bo…
@unherd #brexit #CPC19
#ConservativePartyConference
unherd.com/2019/09/can-bo…
To Brexit Party voters on Twitter
Let's say Johnson fails to get a deal in Oct & Brexit deadline is extended until Jan. Between now & then, an election is called in which Johnson says "vote for me or Brexit is lost forever"
How do you vote?
Genuinely interested in your views
Let's say Johnson fails to get a deal in Oct & Brexit deadline is extended until Jan. Between now & then, an election is called in which Johnson says "vote for me or Brexit is lost forever"
How do you vote?
Genuinely interested in your views
Thanks for the replies to this. Just to say I've read them all
1. KLAXON ELEPHANT TRAP WARNING: if the SNP tables a vote of no confidence this week - as Johnson has allowed minority Opposition parties to do - it will be doing exactly, to the letter, what he is hoping for...
2. As Johnson hinted heavily to Andrew Marr, he could easily whip his own party - tactically - to vote against the government in such a vote. The bizarre coalition of Tory, DUP and SNP votes would get the total over 323: a simple majority.
3. This would trigger the 14-day period mandated by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act in which there would be a scramble to form an alternative government. This scramble would fail.
