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Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP
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Another day at @CommonsHomeAffs trying to get to bottom of Home Office plans for No Deal. Here’s what Home Office have now told us No Deal means:
1. Less security at border.
2. Free movement continues.
3. Less immigration enforcement.
Not sure that’s what people voted for.
Police, Border Force & Permanent Secretary have all said they won’t have access to SIS2 European database of suspects & criminals at the border - so less security at border
Immigration Minister has said there will be no additional checks at the border, no additional employment checks & they won’t be able to distinguish between new arrivals & long standing residents - so free movement continues
And Permanent Secretary told us today lots of staff will have to be moved out of Immigration Enforcement to work on No Deal instead
So - pretty big gap between this and the Brexit promises
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1. A blindfold Brexit deal with so little agreed on future security & economic cooperation is too risky & weakens UK negotiating power on the future partnership. My article from last week on why Parliament shd vote against PMs deal & extend Article 50 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
2. Cross border crime & threats increasing, yet Deal has no agreement on SIS2 criminal database which U.K. checks 500 million x a transition for wanted criminals, terror suspects, weapons. Nor any commitment to replica EAW. (Full article outside paywall) yvettecooper.com/pm_must_extend…
3. But there’s no Plan B on security. No one involved thinks a future Security Treaty can be agreed & fully ratified in each member state in 2yrs. But unlike on Northern Ireland or customs, there’s no security backstop to prevent serious capability gap when transition runs out.
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So after yesterday’s confusion at @CommonsHomeAffs over Govt No Deal immigration plans here’s a thread on what I think we gleaned (and yes I know it’s full of contradictions & I assume some bits are wrong but afraid I don’t know which bits) bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
1. Govt says in the event of No Deal, UK will still respect rights of EU citizens living here now & the same settled status scheme will apply as if there was a deal
2. Govt says in the event of No Deal, there will be no change in the checks on EU citizens at the border, and EU citizens will be able to travel into the UK same as now. People won’t need visas.
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Truly, truly shocking. Home Office lawyers appear to have deliberately advised against giving child & teen refugees in France the reasons why they were refused family reunion with relatives in UK to prevent them appealing against decision. Level of inhumanity in this is appalling
Remember these were very vulnerable children & teenagers who had often been alone in Calais many months - often subjected to abuse, exploitation, sexual violence
When the camp was cleared, they were told to use legal routes to join family in UK, but when they were turned down & given no reason & no hope, many just disappeared again - probably back into the arms of smugglers, traffickers or abusers
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John Humphrys: Will the vote go ahead?
May: I want to tell you why its such a good deal, it delivers on *robotic script reading commences*
John Humphrys: Has it been recommended you to cancel the vote?
May: I'm listening to colleagues there won;t be a delay to the vote, I'm listening to concerns about the backstop
John Humphrys: But you know how parliament will vote??
Theresa May: Er, no, that's what the vote is all about

Ye Gods. Deluded.
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I feel the need to comment on this because @CitySamuel and I were briefly very aligned on May's 'Deal', suggesting MPs should vote it through. But I then shifted, and now want it voted down. Why? A thread cometh.... /1
The 'take' by Gove and Samuel (and my earlier self) is that the Deal uncouples the UK from political union, exits EU m'ship, closes down Remain, and addresses British politics' view about ending Free Movement. Furthermore.... /2
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A lot has been said on May's queue jumper comments and her non-apology, but one thing has not been looked at in detail, to my knowledge, namely how the UK government's stubborn refusal to understand or correctly represent freedom of movement infantilizes British citizens 1/
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The Boles Norway Plus option - a short thread:
1. Irish backstop 'falls away': but since UK cd leave EEA, EU will insist Irish backstop is permanently available
2. UK to leave CAP/CFP - so then there needs to be specific arrangements for NI as now in backstop so no friction for agric/fish products at border
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3. All EEA members have to agree to UK joining incl EU27 so why wd they not insist on discussing fisheries agreement in parallel?
Also EU wd surely insist that any customs union did not include fisheries products i.e. Scottish/UK fisheries face tariffs/delays at borders
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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]
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Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
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Recap of debate in House of Lords y'day on Amendment 25 re: Irish #border in EU Withdrawal Bill #Brexit
HoL had tabled an amendment specifying no checks & controls of any sort. Pared-back version offered by govt in compromise was passed.
Only 1 dissenting voice @PeterHain
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Lord Duncan said govt accepted thrust of amendment but made 3 changes to ensure it's 'fit for the statute book':
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2/7
5 Lords spoke. Lord Cormack welcomed ‘real meeting of minds’ in this instance. Lord Murphy reported from BIIPA ‘unanimous agmt that Brexit is dominating British-Irish rels’
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