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David Henig @DavidHenigUK
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Brexit is testing Parliamentary procedure. The Government does not command a majority.

Might as well break protocol further, it is time for a Parliamentary committee to take control of the Brexit process.
Yes, I can think of many reasons why this won't work, but nothing that would work better. We're going to be stuck in Parliamentary bickering for weeks unless something new is done.
See also this Guardian proposal as championed by @stellacreasy among others for a Brexit citizens assembly. We have to break out of where we are and not perpetuate divisionism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Brexit Tracker Time. Cut straight to the chase - No-Deal down to 10%, the lowest since we started last year. PM's deal also down, to 30%. But still no other option greater than 20% - no wonder people are confused...
Long time readers will note some changes of headings - trying to keep rough consistency here, but we now have PMs deal, Customs Union, and EEA as clearly separate. As they sort of were some months ago. The move away from Hard Brexit is notable here
The digest I promised is being delayed by my technological ineptitude - expect this later today, or by return to anyone who mails...
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Well, this is blunt from a writer who has spent some time to understand the issues around the Brexit including on trade and Northern Ireland. And the verdict, that the moment of truth on a Customs Union is coming.
If anything @pmdfoster underplays the issue. A UK in a Customs Union, with only limited control of our trade policy, is not a comfortable place to be. A UK outside a Customs Union means a border in the Irish Sea or island of Ireland, until other solutions exist.
Which of course explains the desperate attempts to say the border is not a problem, it is exaggerated or there are solutions. I suspect the PM is sitting on detailed intelligence reports to say there are real security concerns.
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I presume these words were extremely carefully chosen by the Japanese PM, and they are not terrible comfortable for anyone in the UK...
Defining Global Britain in an age of Global Value Chains. Many companies export end products to non-EU markets, but a large part of our trade in integrated with the EU, whatever the final destination. What happens when barriers to that UK-EU trade increase?
The issue of Global Value Chains and Brexit is not just a goods problem, being outside the single market for services may also prevent the UK participating fully if UK companies supplying goods cannot also supply associated services.
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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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Morning campers, I’ll be live tweeting from the UK parliamentary hearing into @Facebook, misinformation and fake news today. Here’s what you need to know:
Lawmakers from nine countries are here in London to gripe about why Zuckerberg didn’t show up to speak to them. Expect a lot of that, plus Richard Allan, FB’s VP of “policy solutions,” to do a lot of apologizing
Nominally, this hearing is tied to @DamianCollins’ ongoing “fake news” investigation, which has led UK officials traveling to the US for hearings (on taxpayers £). But to be clear, they have no power to actually legislate
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Having spent two years remoaning about #brexit I have now quit complaining as I now see there are tremendous opportunities from leaving the European Union which will be embraced globally thread
Patrick Minford of economists for #brexit has stated that #brexit will mean the virtual end of UK manufacturing therefore many European countries will enjoy a relocation windfall
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#Brexit
1) Thread - All Brexits are bad and what we voted for
It's often said by brexiters that "it's not all about economics"
However, the *actual* Leave campaign was almost wholly about economic arguments

With the leak of this 2-8% report those arguments are now trashed
2) We seem to have forgotten this however economics played a huge part in the Vote Leave campaign, making up over 2/3rds of the primary arguements. The clear message was we would at the least be no worse off and at best much better off. 4 of the 6 below state this clearly
3) & the fact is voters believed we would be no worse off. People prioritized immigration certainly, but against a backdrop of there being no consequences from Brexit - few are prepared to actually pay for ending FoM
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1/ I'm slowly getting back into #Brexit stuff after time off in the last week or so.

I'm starting with David Davis's Telegraph piece from a couple of days ago: telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/0…

A quick thread about it.
2/ The title is interesting - it is: "How we will deliver the best Brexit in 2018". Davis's piece does not come close to answering that. The piece would more accurately be entitled "What I think the best Brexit looks like in 2018 (without asking the EU what they'd accept)"
3/ There's a bit of nerdy stuff at the start. I quote: "Donald Tusk has approved an immediate start to initial discussions on the future relationship (...) talks about the implementation period begin early in the New Year" I assume he means "Transition Period"?
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