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I am reliably told @theresa_may won't put a date on how long she needs to renegotiate Brexit plan and therefore MPs won't know when they will finally get their vote. This undated extension of talks will be no more acceptable to MPs than her undated Backstop. So...
...expect in just a few minutes the traditional booming explosions of outraged parliamentarians. But do they have the power to prevent her from having their say in a timely fashion on the Brexit she shape? As I said yesterday real deadline is 21 Jan when under Withdrawal Act...
...PM HAS to present a Brexit plan to parliament
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For the civil service Brexit is becoming very real indeed. Officials at the Department for International Development, which isn't much affected by Brexit in a direct sense, were told this morning that up to 600 of their number - out of just 3000 - may have to be redeployed to...
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Controversial thought: MPs shouldn't be handling Brexit. 1/ #brexit
2/ While many MPs are gifted and talented individuals, few seem to have the required skills and knowledge to take brexit forward.
3/ it is a mammoth task that requires knowledge of EU law, treaties and institutions, international trade and customs, international bodies, international law and more.
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1) Options available on #Brexit - thread
To try to help out with understanding I'm going to go for the simplest explanation I can of the options in front of the country re A50, Deals available etc based on my understanding

Here goes
2) briefly to begin with, there are 3 #Brexit options & 2 Article 50 options
Brexit options:
- No deal
- May's deal
- Remain

Article 50
- Revoke A50
- Delay A50

3 routes to Remain
- GE with a Labour Remain ticket
- 2nd Ref with a Remain option
- Revoke A50 via vote in HoP
3) Revoke A50
can be revoked by the UK alone, without agreement of the EU & we go back to the *exact* same deal we have now (rebate, no Euro etc)

However it must be a revoke in "good faith", we revoke because we are staying indefinitely, not as a pause whilst we have a rethink
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There an awful lot of extremely right wing Conservatives, with links to the libertarian think tanks based on Tufton Street, commenting on @BBCNews at the moment... #Brexit #ConfidenceVote
So far this afternoon/evening... Jacob Rees Mogg (GLOBAL BRITAIN), Michael Gove (VOTE LEAVE, THE NEW CULTURE FORUM), Owen Paterson (BRUGES GROUP, UK2020), John Whittingdale (VOTE LEAVE), Chris Grayling (VOTE LEAVE)... plus Nigel Farage (LEAVE . EU)... and someone from OPEN EUROPE
plus... Andrew Bridgen (LEAVE MEANS LEAVE)
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Let me explain for American readers.

1. Conservative MPs don’t want a General Election.
2. Labour and the EU are just starting to realize it’s May’s deal or automatic hard #Brexit
3. May isn’t a Russian asset but opp ldr @jeremycorbyn is and Putin won’t let him oppose #Brexit.
So even if UK PM @theresa_may won’t get her deal through, the UK will still #Brexit as the Leader of the Opposition, a Russian asset, Jeremy Corbyn, will not allow his own party to oppose #Brexit with the fresh vote that would be needed to stop it.
And there is in fact no likelihood that any fresh vote even if Corbyn were to call it would overturn Article 50.

The EU can either cave on the Irish Border with a “technical solution” or they can go whistle for two years of UK money that they need desperately.
#Brexit anyway.
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1) 6 pointless, time wasting exercises the Tory & Labour parties want to put the country through before we can start work on #Brexit

There are only 2 options left, May’s deal or Remain. There’s no majority for no deal and no time or appetite for a new negotiation
#PeoplesVote
2) There is only 3 months left and the country is in a state of worry. Despite this, and despite the ticking clock the 2 major parties are insisting on self indulgent frippery and posturing before we can get to the real business of fixing #Brexit
3) Lets take the Tory party. Firstly, they’re about to engage in another Leadership contest. May will probably win this but even if she doesn’t it will consume weeks of time for no purpose because it won’t itself change anything in Brexit. The same issues will exist afterwards
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1) The BBC, @bbcnickrobinson and silencing the 48%
#Brexit is more in doubt today than it was yesterday, more in doubt last week than it was last year. Opposition to it has grown slowly but steadly

But you wouldn't think so watching the BBC

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2) The BBC's Nick Robinson put out this blog in April 2017, explaining the duty of the national broadcaster. The referendum was over, Remain was no longer an option and there was therefore no requirement for the BBC to report on anything other than variations of #Brexit
3) This judgement, that Remain was dead, was certainly suspect 18 months ago. Today, with #PeoplesVote on everyone's lips and the Brexit plan in tatters it appears to be a remarkable failure from the BBC news team, who have failed in their duty to inform in a balanced fashion
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