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Thread on @RoryStewartUK at #Lobbyhustings this morning
Thread on @sajidjavid
Thread on @Jeremy_Hunt
Jeremy Hunt: I will never do anything that would threaten the Union (implying no 2nd Scottish referendum) #Lobbyhustings
Universal credit is the right way forward; doesn’t say whether it has pushed people to food banks
“When I say I broadly agree with the WA definition of a hard border in Ireland I mean I broadly agree”: Hunt
Sajid Javid up now: he’s the person to keep Corbyn out is his opening pitch #Lobbyhustings
Javid was working in a different bit of banking at the time of the crash; nothing to do with him
I wouldn’t make any fundamental change to universal credit: Javid
Here is a (convoluted) way we get through Rory Stewart to remain #lobbyhustings
1. RS makes it to final 2
2. RS beats other contender
3. As PM, RS tries to get Parliament to pass May's deal, and fails badly
4. RS convenes Citizens' Assembly
5. CA hears weeks of expert testimony
1. RS makes it to final 2
2. RS beats other contender
3. As PM, RS tries to get Parliament to pass May's deal, and fails badly
4. RS convenes Citizens' Assembly
5. CA hears weeks of expert testimony
6. CA concludes a second referendum is needed, or even remain
7. RS judges there will be enough support in Parliament for the CA conclusion, takes it back to MPs saying "I've listened to the CA."
8. MPs vote for CA recommendation
9. Second referendum, or revocation of Article 50.
7. RS judges there will be enough support in Parliament for the CA conclusion, takes it back to MPs saying "I've listened to the CA."
8. MPs vote for CA recommendation
9. Second referendum, or revocation of Article 50.
This last part would possibly come post 2nd ref and/or A50 revocation...
(10. RS calls on Parliament to allow him to hold a snap GE.)
(11. Parliament agrees on GE
12. General Election
13. ???)
(10. RS calls on Parliament to allow him to hold a snap GE.)
(11. Parliament agrees on GE
12. General Election
13. ???)
Rory Stewart the first to face the #lobbyhustings this morning. Taking the approach to passing the withdrawal agreement that Theresa May failed to. Feels composed but not rehearsed
He defends idea of a Citizens Assembly to solve Brexit if he can't get WA through Parliament on first time of asking. Says wouldn't accept proposals that couldn't get past MPs. Says: 'I don't expect them to come up with a unicorn...we have 4 other candidates selling unicorns'
Stewart rules out holding an election before 2022 if becomes PM - says election would be 'catastrophic, divisive & a really dumb thing to do'. Says would put all energy into 'turning this country around' #lobbyhustings
Key question is not what but how, says Rory Stewart, 1st up for #Lobbyhustings in Westminster
He says you don’t want to hear a pitch so I’ll sit down & take your questions. Good start
1st Q: citizens assembly. Stewart says it’s a threat to force parliament to deal with Brexit
At #lobbyhustings where all of the candidates to be prime minister apart from Boris Johnson will shortly take Qs from a room full of journalists
Kicking off #lobbyhustings is Rory Stewart, who says it is "for the birds" to claim that the next PM could get a new Brexit deal from Brussels and says trying to do so would "waste an astonishing amount of time"
Stewart says he wouldn't serve in a Johnson Cabinet because he "doesn't have a plan"
"He doesn't talk to me, he doesn't talk to you, he doesn't talk to the public" #lobbyhustings
"He doesn't talk to me, he doesn't talk to you, he doesn't talk to the public" #lobbyhustings
