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Political parties viewed through a Lord of the Rings prism...
A) LibDems: hobbits, largely overlooked but with an important part to play.
B) Greens: elves, defending the natural spaces
C) Labour: men (some good, some evil, many arrogant)
D) Tories: orcs
#Ridge #marr #MarrShow
E) Brexit Party: Uruk-hai
F) Brexit: the One Ring
G) Jeremy Corbyn: Denethor
H) Jacob Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Michael Gove etc: ringwraiths
J) Boris Johnson: Gollum at his least Smeagol-like
K) Lady Hale: Galadriel
L) Dominic Cummings: Wormtongue
M) Putin and/or Trump: Sauron
N) Nigel Farage: Saruman
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I’ve been leaked a recent Dexeu document setting out in black & white how UK plans to diverge from EU on regulations despite Johnson assurances on workers rights etc

Read it here on @FT
ft.com/content/5eb094…
it’s tonight’s @ft splash
just heard @KwasiKwarteng on @BBCRadio4 claiming he’s not aware of any such document

It’s entitled “Update to EPSG on level playing field negotiations”, hope this helps

The paper also says:

“official - sensitive - not to be copied or forwarded without author’s permission”
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The most interesting part, for me, about this @ShippersUnbound splash is what it says about Team Boris, rather than where the EU/Irish are on #Brexit - it's same old assumption that Merkel or whover is coming to the rescue. Not sure they are. 1/Thread thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
@ShippersUnbound As I think you'll see @simoncoveney say on @AndrewMarr9 #Marr this morning, the Irish are not for turning...and the Coveney Sunday Times piece is pretty clear on that.

It takes a lot to see an "olive branch" in the pledge to use future relationship to do away with backstop /2
@ShippersUnbound @simoncoveney @AndrewMarr9 That is just EU #Brexit boilerplate, it's the same as Merkel said last week about using the Political Declaration to obviate need for the backstop

- so if UK either accepts NI-only backstop,

- or if all UK remained aligned in a way that makes border

...backstop falls. /3
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Wtaching #marrshow - here is @instituteforgov on what preparations for no deal need to look like instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/preparing…
@instituteforgov Andrew Marr is completely right that we don't know what would happen to UK citizens in EU -- what's the planning - one of the questions to answer
@instituteforgov this would all fall to a bunch of bilateral agreements....
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