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NEW Government concedes in David Davis written ministerial statement just before debate that Speaker could allow the meaningful vote be amended in an attempt to stave off possible defeat on vote this afternoon.
Chuka Umunna says this is a “significant climb down”
Opposition frontbench source say the David Davis WMS is “meaningless” and just kicks can to the Speaker
For now Grieve’s attempt to put this in the Bill stands and we’ll get a vote anyway - latest as of 19 minutes ago from key rebel “yes” - still pushing for compromise
I just interviewed John Mann on our PMQs panel and he feared that the only use of an amendment such as this would be to delay Article 50 in January after No Deal
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Interesting - maybe too late. Labour MPs astonished No 10 failed to consult with unions too. Also one told her directly that her talking up of No Deal as a viable option was making things difficult. Ie they need her to say publicly that No Deal is a disastrous non option...tricky
Labour sources briefing against: “We will look at any proposal that is put forward to improve T May’s bad deal.

“However, amendment would mean MPs supporting deal based on promises that are not legally binding. also doesn’t guarantee UK won’t fall behind on important rights”
“Protection of rights is also one element of this deal. The government has still refused to listen to Labour’s demands for a permanent customs union and a strong single market deal.” Says Labour source...
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Another ticking No Deal time bomb -Lords Grand committee supposed to take 4 hours to deal with 10 Brexit Statutory instruments - Got through just 3 on stem cells, embryology etc, all referred up to full House of Lords.

Hundreds more required to be passed to correct statute book
Some Govt sources suggesting there is a filibustering game going on here - Lords strenuously deny - todays committee included Lord Winston, Warner, Foulkes, Adonis etc, say it is scrutiny legislated for in Withdrawal Bill.

In any event, cant see how they get through all the SIs
Here’s the committee taking on the minister who was trying to get 10 SIs through today... parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8a…
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Very good story about Brexit consultancy contracts from @AdamParsons1 and @TomBoadle

My understanding was BCG and Mckinseys ones were to work up rejected plans for New Customs Partnership and Max Fac to test them with very sceptical manufacturers (under gagging clauses ofc)...
Essentially, the Government paying many millions to external consultants to tell them it was going to take years to prepare customs etc, but also trying to square circle of its own red lines on Brexit with keeping frictionless trade.
Plenty of people were telling the Government, often under NDA, for free, that such plans were unworkable...
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The Commons will vote on 11th December on the PM’s withdrawal agreement and future relationship framework.

After that, House is due to sit on the 12th, 13th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th - six sitting days until Christmas recess.

The Commons returns on 7th January.
According to @commonslibrary if the PM’s Brexit motion is voted down, the government is required to make a statement about it’s intentions within 21 days.

There will only be six sitting days left to do that. January will be too late.
And within seven sitting days, Parliament has to vote on a motion based on the government’s stated intentions.
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This is a good article, talking about problems that we have to, that the GOP won't and that we CAN fix! But first, just #Vote damnit!
#SundayMotivation
The Myth of the Lazy Nonvoter
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According to the @WSJ the Iraqi #government has bank accounts with the U.S. Federal Reserve, where its #dollars are kept, which the Iraqi economy relies upon could be frozen should Iraq violate #sanctions politico.com/magazine/story…
#Iran has deliberately flooded Iraqi market with cheap imports and foodstuffs. This has undercut Iraq agriculture by decreasing demand4 homegrown products that R more expensive. Even if Iraq were2 stop buying these goods #farmers would not B able2 produce enough supplies at home
Iran has political leverage, too. Since the May 12 national #election Iraq’s political elites have been unable to form a government in part because of enormous pressure from #Tehran to install politicians in their favor. Iran’s loyalists succeed and dominate the new government...
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1/ Brexiters have boxed themselves in with the EU withdrawal bill
2/ Why so?
3/ The bill which has now passed includes a version of the Patten amendment which commits to no new physical border infrastructure in Ireland or customs or regulatory checks unless agreed between the UK and the EU publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill…
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Davis:
June: "Nearly 60 sector analyses already done.” List published.
Nov: "Not the case that 58 impact assessments exist"
#BrexitShambles
Well done @Anna_Soubry, @Keir_Starmer & @hilarybennmp for holding @DavidDavisMP to account over the Brexit Impact Assessment #BrexitShambles
How can it be “not the case that 58 Brexit impact studies exist”? Here they’re referenced by Brexit minister Lord Bridges. #BrexitShambles.
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Our judicial review tries to force Govt to make public its secret reports showing how Brexit will affect eg agriculture or car making. /1
We think democracy can't function without truth and transparency. That's what went wrong in June 2016. It can't happen again. /2
Govt says 'it will hurt our negotiating hand if the EU knows how badly Brexit will hit the UK.' Like, somehow, the EU can't do modelling. /3
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