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Theresa May *might* be using No Deal planning to help bounce Brexiteers into backing her Chequers plan. But @JWhittingdale clear May’s proposal still dead in the water. Says he won’t support it & neither will EU (report on @SkyNews at 9pm/10pm) 1.
2. Meanwhile Barnier appears impervious to UK govt attempts to step up pressure, unmoved by this “blame game”. But perhaps underneath rhetoric EU might offer some sort of deal around Chequers (subject to some more concessions)
3. In which case then the real showdown begins: May puts a version of Chequers to MPs; seeking support from Labour to push through her Brexit deal. Political stalemate shifts to full blown political crisis
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Sky Views: Ending austerity is PM's big Brexit con > Designed solely to push Chequers through her own party, the PM has given Corbyn not just an open goal but an empty pitch on which to play the Tories news.sky.com/story/sky-view…
The No 10 narrative will go like this: ‘Vote down Chequers and risk economic Armageddon’ (complete with some scary Treasury modelling on what a No-Deal looks like)
The whips will then use the prospect of economic Armageddon to press wobbling Brexiteers - and Labour MPs - to vote with May on Brexit
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DUP abstains. DUP source; this was designed to be a warning shot. ‘Weren’t trying to hurt govt but to show them that we won’t necessarily follow them through the voting lobby’
DUP met with the chief whip today. Told the meeting was frank and @JulianSmithUK left in no doubt that DUP requires the PM to keep promises made for NI in order for them to keep theirs
And..... on the matter of voting down the Budget & withdrawing from confidence & supply deal, DUP source suggests that PM ‘could go because she can’t hold together her govt, and someone else could take over’ >> that’s pretty, er, punchy.
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NEW: No-deal roaming charges. Govt confirms my story that surcharge-free roaming "cannot be guaranteed" in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Govt also (as I reported) says it will legislate to apply limits if necessary. Notes some operators "no current plans" to change approach
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Here's a thread attempting to set out the #Brexit timetable for the next few months, based on this insightful @brunobrussels article:
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/a…
Salzburg Summit 20 Sept:
"Shouting over the “backstop” + starting point of a '“political declaration” on the future relationship that will be thrashed out at a sequence of summits'
Tory party conference 1-3 Oct:
Hoping "Boris Johnson and the Brexiteers in the Conservative European Research Group" do not do anything to prevent the next planned steps
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
002/ #quote "Over the past couple of weeks, the media have been full of lurid scare stories about what will happen if the UK leaves the EU on WTO terms, because negotiations with the EU do not result in a withdrawal agreement." /003
#tariffs #NoDeal #Brexit #WTO #ProjectFear #shortages #food #medicines
003/ #quote "One of the most ridiculous and UNJUSTIFIED of these absurd scare stories is that it will lead to higher prices, and even shortages, of foods and medicines." /004
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Thread: "#Brexit & #Chequers, the sellout. Dump it, let's move on".
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I keep hearing "Where is the plan?" and a load of misinformation on #Brexit, pushed on UK media by irrelevant & biased commentators, elevated simply because they are avid Remoaners.
They aim to distract.
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We already knew from those tasked with the negotiations, there had been a definite direction of travel & #Brexit plans were well advanced, prior to #Chequers.

2/19
David Davis & his team had been constantly rebuffed by Number 10, as they tried to pursue a proper #Brexit plan, but they HAD been making progress.

3/19
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I wonder how Theresa May feels about Suelle Braverman — a serving DExEU minister — supporting the Farage-backed Leave Means Leave campaign which claims Chequers is a "massive fraud," "totally unacceptable," and "a sell-out" express.co.uk/news/politics/… …
Suella*
Update: DExEU tells me Suella Braverman’s inclusion on the Leave Means Leave website is an “administrative oversight” which will be “rectified”
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Chequers. A brief retrospective from my representative's ancestors:

1/5 Here we have James Ramsey MacDonald (first Labour PM) and daughter, Joan, reflecting on national negotiations of the time. Well NOT Brexit. #chequers
2/5 Dennis and The Boss. Good times (mostly). I believe Mr T once said "Chequers is why you get the job". That, and "Shut up, Fool!".
[She'd have sorted out this bloody Brexit nonsense, I can tell you.] #chequers
3/5 Ladies' day. The G8.
Meryl Streep taking a role in close international relations, apparently.
(Blair too, being well non-Brexit. GAME ON, GIRLFRIEND.) #chequers
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