Thread by @SloughForEU

At the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster waiting for the start of The Convention.
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As I mentioned before, it's a very impressive lineup for @The_Convention_ today.
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The inimitable @HenryCPorter (who I've come across on other unrelated campaigns in the past) is opening events now (Lara Spirit, host for the morning is alongside).
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Big cheer as @CarolineLucas takes the stage.
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"populist political insiders who dress up as rebels and use Europe to distract from their own failures"
@CarolineLucas

"we need to give the people who felt left behind something to gain from remaining in the EU"
@CarolineLucas at @The_Convention_
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"move on from the facts and figures and let's talk about the feelings, hopes and dreams that will win people's hearts and minds"
@CarolineLucas at @The_Convention_
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"Brexit has laid bare the extent to which our government structures are delict"
@CarolineLucas at @The_Convention_
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Next up is a discussion with @AmateyDoku @eloisetodd @TomBaldwin66 and @IanDunt at @The_Convention_
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"we can't do much about luck or about our opponents, but we can do the right thing. We have to start by making sure May's deal is defeated and we are the only way forward standing"
@TomBaldwin66 at @The_Convention_
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"my dad challenged Tim Martin on Brexit in Wetherspoons"
@eloisetodd at @The_Convention_
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"once May's deal is defeated, the only two tenable options are #PeoplesVote and #NoDealBrexit"
@IanDunt at @The_Convention_
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"The government had treated parliament like dirt for two years now. Bercow is impartial in every way except for the one way in which he must be partial - standing up for parliament"
@IanDunt at @The_Convention_
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"highlight of the week was seeing Andrea Leadsom asking John Bercow to reveal his advice. Irony is dead"
@AmateyDoku at @The_Convention_
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Standing ovation as Dominic Grieve comes onstage at @The_Convention_
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"Brexit was a revolution in the name of traditionalism. Revolutions eat their own children and create their own dynamic in an uncontrollable way - leading you to a place you don't want to be"
Dominic Grieve at @The_Convention_
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Next up is @joannaccherry QC and SNP MP at @The_Convention_
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"I'm happy to be in a union with England, but only if it is a union of equals - an independent Scotland alongside England in the EU"
@joannaccherry at @The_Convention_
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"Scotland has the best performing NHS in the UK and strong house building programmes. The infrastructure is good. This is one reason people in Scotland voted remain - this is only possible due to devolution"
@joannaccherry at @The_Convention_
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"Devolution might have protected Scotland from the worst of austerity, but it can't protect us from Brexit"
@joannaccherry at @The_Convention_
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"Gibraltar's government were given advance sight of the withdrawal agreement. Scotland's were not..."
@joannaccherry at @The_Convention_
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"With the ECJ case on revocation of #Article50, Scottish politicians have thrown the UK the lifeline it needs to stop #Brexit"
@joannaccherry at @The_Convention_
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Postcards to the Labour Leadership handed out during the break at @The_Convention_
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Next up is Tara Connolly from @OFOCBrexit at @The_Convention_
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"nobody in Northern Ireland voted for the Brexit that we will get under the government's #WithdrawalAgreement"
Tara Connolly from @OFOCBrexit at @The_Convention_
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Next up is a session chaired by @JMPSimor, featuring @SebDance, Jane Dyball, Bella Frimpong & @mediawhizz at @The_Convention_
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"the jobs of the future will depend on networks, of our young people being able to gain and share knowledge with neighbouring countries" @SebDance at @The_Convention_
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"Every other country that has free movement sees it as something different to immigration. Even the best of our newspapers don't quite understand it" @mediawhizz at @The_Convention_
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"many people who came to the EU under free movement rules did not have much money or qualifications at the start, but built successful careers. These people would be blocked under the Withdrawal Agreement proposals" @mediawhizz
at @The_Convention_
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"visual reminders of what the EU does in the UK act as tangible reminders of what membership means in a way that FOM perhaps doesn't. We need to make our Brexit conversations more tangible and more realistic" Bella Frimpong from @FFSake_ at @The_Convention_
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"harmonised copyright laws across the EU have helped services like Spotify" Jane Dyball at @The_Convention_
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"live music is an export industry for Britain. Free Movement is important for this to continue successfully" Jane Dyball at @The_Convention_
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"the current deadlock in parliament is crippling not just for the music industry, but for the country as a whole" Jane Dyball at @The_Convention_
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"The irony of Brexit is that we now have the best informed, most engaged pro-eu movement on the continent" @SebDance at @The_Convention_
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Next up, founder of @YouGov @easy_11 at @The_Convention_
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"current polls show 54% remain. This is a 6% swing. Only one post war election has had a swing bigger than this"
@easy_11 at @The_Convention_
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"the withdrawal agreement is not popular amongst leave or remain voters. It is being squeezed in the middle"
@easy_11 at @The_Convention_
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"people often want change in the abstract, but when it is defined they don't like the specific version so much"
@easy_11 at @The_Convention_
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Now up in the discussion is @Femi_Sorry from @OFOCBrexit joined by Sim Ryyat and Emma Knuckey from @RemainerNow at @The_Convention_
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"Douglas Carswell lied to us about Brexit when he visited our university"
Sim Ryyat from @RemainerNow at @The_Convention_
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"We all have more in common, but people are being played of against one another while the clock is ticking" Emma Knuckey from @RemainerNow at @The_Convention_
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"The politicians who were in the best place to tell us what would happen led to us during the referendum campaign" @Femi_Sorry at @The_Convention_
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"I realised that the global Britain fantasy had been a lie." Sim Ryyat from @RemainerNow at @The_Convention_
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"I don't want the three million to be sacrificed like pawns in a game, to just be bargaining chips" Emma Knuckey from @RemainerNow at @The_Convention_
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Now somebody who needs no introduction... Jarvis Cocker at @The_Convention_
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"Pop music is the prism through which I see the world. It's no surprise that it also informs my view on Brexit" Jarvis Cocker at @The_Convention_
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"Good pop / bad pop: popular versus populism" Jarvis Cocker at @The_Convention_
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"the referendum result is like Brexit going into the chart at number 19..." Jarvis Cocker at @The_Convention_
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Next up is a panel chaired by @MaryFitzger from @openDemocracy, with @stellacreasy MP, @carmichaelneil_ and @germanacanzi at @The_Convention_
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"We need to learn from what other countries have done to handle difficult issues, using citizens assemblies. Ireland had done this on same sex marriage and abortions amongst other things" @stellacreasy MP at @The_Convention_
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"citizens assemblies are like drain cleaner - to clear out the crud and distractions from politics and see what the issues are that really matter to people" @stellacreasy MP @The_Convention_
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"Nothing matters more than Britain's membership of the EU" @carmichaelneil_, chair of @conservative4pv at @The_Convention_
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"there are hundreds of reasons why we should be in the EU. The kind of nation we are is defined by the nation's we work with. If we want to be internationalist we need to be part of international structures" @carmichaelneil_ at @The_Convention_
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"the failures in British domestic policy are our fault, not the EU's" @carmichaelneil_ at @The_Convention_
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"many British citizens are shocked to find that non British EU citizens were not allowed to vote in the referendum" @germanacanzi from @The3Million at @The_Convention_
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"We realised that we did not have a place at the table (during Brexit negotiations)) but on the menu instead" @germanacanzi at @The_Convention_
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"People in @The3Million now hear the country talking about is as though we are not in the room" @germanacanzi at @The_Convention_
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"What kind of values does this country stand for, if the people most affected by a change are excluded from having a view on it" @germanacanzi at @The_Convention_
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"people in this country need to listen to each other and respect each other, otherwise we will never heal the divisions in this country" @stellacreasy MP at @The_Convention_
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"We must show that we are listening and engaged" @carmichaelneil_ at @The_Convention_
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Next up is a continuation of the Another Vote is Possible session, chaired by @peterjukes with @NickCohen4 @AdamRamsay and @carolecadwalla at @The_Convention_
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"There is no way Aaron Banks could have afforded the donation he gave to the Brexit campaign" @AdamRamsay at @The_Convention_
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"we need to have a proper constitution and become a modern democracy" @AdamRamsay at @The_Convention_
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"the social media platforms under investigation in the USA are the same ones that would have influenced our referendum during exactly the same time period" @carolecadwalla at @The_Convention_
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"Before I stumbled on this story I thought we were a modern democracy governed by the rule of law" @carolecadwalla at @The_Convention_
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"the BBC is very much like the Anglican church. It should do journalism, but it also thinks it has to be the voice of the nation and due not follow some controversial stories as a result" @NickCohen4 at @The_Convention_
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"Dominic Cummings decided not to do a Vote Leave manifesto, because he admitted that they were too divided amongst themselves to agree on one" @NickCohen4 at @The_Convention_
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"the problem is as much with the official opposition not asking the questions they need to during their allotted media time as it is with the BBC. The journalists don't think it is their job to raise these questions" @NickCohen4 at @The_Convention_
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"We aren't going to have the results of the various official investigations into Brexit funding etc before the UK is due to leave the EU" @carolecadwalla at @The_Convention_
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"it is clear that many of the individuals involved in fighting Brexit are fraudsters in other areas" @AdamRamsay at @The_Convention_
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"Have your made clear to you Labour MP that you won't be voting for them again if they don't change their approach on Brexit" @NickCohen4 at @The_Convention_
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"Brexit solves none of our country's problems, but adds some new ones" @NickCohen4 at @The_Convention_
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Next up is a panel chaired by @LesleyRiddoch with @AnthonyBarnett & @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"Boris Johnson was always going to resign the moment any chance of him having to take responsibility for his own actions got close" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"We always thought imperialism was over, even in Ireland. It turns out that there is a last stage though - the zombie stage where you take on all of the problems of those you ruled over by believing you were colonised" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"The British tabloid press has been inventing ways in which we are being oppressed for 25 years" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"Brexit does not deal with the issue of an unarticulated English identity. There is far more to Englishness than the ridiculous camp stereotype embodied by Jacob Rees-Mogg" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"We need to debate why, given the ridiculous nature of Brexit, that it has been permitted to succeed to the extent it has" @AnthonyBarnett at @The_Convention_
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"Being European means something different to your nationality. It enhances it. It is not a superstate taking over countries, but instead enhances what it means to be a European nation" @AnthonyBarnett at @The_Convention_
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"the Scots seem to regard the establishment as Westminster, whereas in England people don't think about the lack of regional assemblies and PR etc, but instead tilt to directing all that angst towards Europe" @LesleyRiddoch at @The_Convention_
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"To the question - Do you have to go through Brexit to realise how bad it is? Do you have to crucify a Christ in every generation to save those with no imagination?" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"The Nigel Lawsons and Jacob Rees-Moggs of this world don't need to imagine what the suffering is like, because they know that they won't be the ones who suffer it" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"There is no left wing socialist case for putting people through a disaster so that they disengage from the current social structures" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"when I cross the (Irish) border now, the only reason I realise is because my mobile phone pings and displays a message saying 'you are now roaming in Europe'" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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"'take back control' should be a socialist slogan. It should be a Labour slogan. The speech @CarolineLucas gave this morning was the story of one that should have been one made by a Labour leader" @AnthonyBarnett at @The_Convention_
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"events like this show us that another culture is possible and is happening. Even if Brexit happens, the desire to build a better Britain can't be stopped" @AnthonyBarnett at @The_Convention_
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"You need self confidence to get over self pity. In the past you (the UK) got over things by going on to something better. The welfare state succeeded the horrors of WW2 for example" @fotoole at @The_Convention_
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The next panel is on whether the EU wants to stay with us.
Chaired by @mediawhizz, with @CER_Grant @maryhoneyball MEP @Kaletsky & @AlynSmith MEP at @The_Convention_
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"People in the European parliament are broadly sympathetic to our situation and have not turned against us" @maryhoneyball at @The_Convention_
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"People such as Nigel Farage are trying to poison the well in Europe with the things that they say publicly" @AlynSmith at @The_Convention_
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"not everyone on the EU side is equally enthusiastic about keeping the Brits in, but they would all agree to keep us in" @CER_Grant at @The_Convention_
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"a year ahead from now, the EU will look much stronger relative to Britain than it did in 2016" @Kaletsky at @The_Convention_
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"the forecasts of project fear have not turned out to be wrong. The economy is currently underperforming at the level level which would match the 15 year predictions of £4k per year worse off" @Kaletsky at @The_Convention_
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"by not being in the Euro but in the EU, Britain was for 25 years in the unique position of being able to have their cake & eat it" @Kaletsky at @The_Convention_
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"The amount that Britain has benefited from being in the EU but not the Euro over 25 years (measured relative to other EU members such as France) ends up as equal to double the budget of the NHS" @Kaletsky at @The_Convention_
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"the European parliament is different to almost any other in that there is no expectation of forming a government it of it and people vote differently for this reason and others" @maryhoneyball at @The_Convention_
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"The EU has power to take action on member countries that they feel are not acting the way they are supposed to in the EU" @maryhoneyball at @The_Convention_
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"the way to deal with far right movements is democratically. We have to work out why they have become successful and we have to present alternative solutions" @maryhoneyball at @The_Convention_
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"EU members want to keep us in, but not too the extent of letting us alter the way that they operate. Remain and Reform (the EU) will not be a popular proposition" @CER_Grant at @The_Convention_
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"We have to focus first on what this country has been doing wrong, not any current issues with Europe" @Kaletsky at @The_Convention_
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"Don't let the opposition set the terms of the discussion. The SNP is an internationalist party and is relaxed about defence cooperation. We are talking about defence and security cooperation, not an EU army" @AlynSmith at @The_Convention_
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Next panel is chaired by @pimlicat, with @Jason_Arthur Doirre Finn of @OFOCNI @EmChapman6 and @HUUPresident at @The_Convention_
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"The people's vote campaign has pushed young people to the forefront. Many people voted leave for legitimate reasons though and we have to remember and respect this" @HUUPresident at @The_Convention_
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"the one thing we can agree on is that the government is in deadlock and unable to make a decision. That is why we need a #PeoplesVote" @EmChapman6 at @The_Convention_
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"Theresa May can't say with conviction that her deal would bring our country together when it would result in years of further negotiation and be financially detrimental for most people" @Jason_Arthur at @The_Convention_
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"The country is not broken, but it is definitely divided" @pimlicat at @The_Convention_
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"our politicians need to make sure everyone in this country is represented and protected. At the moment, because SF do not take their seats, non DUP voters are represented by a signé Independent MP in Westminster" Doire Finn of @OFOCNI at @The_Convention_
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"young people may have felt in the past that Brexit was too complex to understand. We need to break down things in a way that will keep people interested" @HUUPresident at @The_Convention_
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"some of the biggest shifts towards remain since the referendum is within the Hindu and Muslim communities in the UK" @pimlicat at @The_Convention_
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"There was an assumption that people from immigrant communities voted remain - which meant that little effort was made by the remain campaign to reach out to them" @Jason_Arthur at @The_Convention_
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