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Beth Rigby @BethRigby
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1) #Chequers today with the scene set for a big showdown. Six Brexiteers - led by Johnson & Davis - to tell PM her plan not acceptable; told that Javid, Williamson & Alan Cairns behind them. PM can’t afford to alienate 9 cabinet ministers
2) Brexiteers baulked at language around a “common rule book” for goods & agribusiness, which will undermine a future trade deal with US. Brexiteer source told me last night this part of the paper needs reworking
3) Phone calls going on as No 10 tries to reassure angry Brexiteers. Source says claims this plan will mean UK can’t sign trade deals ‘simply wrong’
4) And as for the govt ‘common rule book’ on goods/agribusiness, govt source stresses that no new regulation will come in without Parliamentary vote. Will that assuage the Breixteers?
5) Meanwhile, May this morning issues a veiled threat, reminding cabinet they have a “duty” to agree a Brexit blueprint. She has a message for her party, the need to find a deal “that commands the support of the public and Parliament” > The grand compromise
6) Westminster on resignation watch, but will leading Brexiteers really quit over a plan they think the EU will reject anyway (see David Davis) and at a moment that no-one will pay much attention (World Cup match tomorrow?)
7) But if a big enough subset of May’s cabinet dig in heels, surely some of this white paper will have to be tweaked or redrafted... So will we end the day with another fudge?
8) Cabinet in this morning from 9.30am and will have to hand in phones. This isn’t a conspiracy to isolate them in this all important meet, phones never allowed in cabinet meetings.
9) Talks will go on all day/into dinner, so no read out until late into the evening. But expectation that May will scrape through, not least because who in there really wants to trigger a leadership contest?
10) Full agenda courtesy of @timesredbox. Footnote. Fury from some in Cabinet over lack of no deal planning. May’s old mantra “no deal is better than a bad deal” was always controversial. But now it’s totally meaningless because govt hasn’t planned for no deal. No plan B
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