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Boris Johnson says entire nation will give Theresa May 'full-throated' support if she succeeds in securing backstop 'freedom clause'

He says he has heard 'from lips of very senior sources' PM planning to reopen withdrawal agreement

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
Boris Johnson describes suggestion PM is about to return to Brussels to renegotiate deal as 'unadulterated good Brexit news'

He says exit mechanism or sunset clause will 'defuse booby-trap' & allow UK to find 'way out' & negotiate Canada-style free trade deal
Boris Johnson: 'Now is the time to stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood & go back to Brussels and get it

'If PM secures change – a proper UK-sized perforation in the fabric of the backstop itself - I have no doubt she will have the whole country full-throatedly behind her'
Boris Johnson's intervention in tomorrow's Telegraph is clearest indication yet that Eurosceptics have softened their outright opposition to PM's deal

BUT he now wants the PM to publicly confirm her 'change of heart' and reveal 'exactly what the Government has asked for'
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Helen MacNamara, head of ethics at Cab Office, has written to EVERY spad asking them to submit their CV

It's being presented as an HR exercise to address issues around conditions & pay

But Spads fear something else is going on.

Is Govt gearing up for another election?
There is also a genuine issue around gender pay among spads which this could be going some way to address

@oliver_wright did a very good piece just before Xmas revealing that of 99 spads employed, only 25 are women and they get paid 5.7% less

thetimes.co.uk/article/downin…
Several current and former spads have been in touch to say that their pay and conditions are a complete mess

It's down to patronage luck as much as anything else - how much did your predecessor earn, is it a new role etc?

Sounds like Cab Office is trying to redress imbalances
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Steven Swinford
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PM writes to Jeremy Corbyn paving way for more talks on his Brexit plans

In move that heightened Eurosceptic concerns, she has NOT explicitly ruled out his plan to keep UK in Customs Union

No 10 says it is 'nonsense' to suggest PM is open to CU

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
Here's Jacob Rees-Mogg on Theresa May's failure to explicitly rule out Customs Union in her letter to Jeremy Corbyn:

'As the 2017 Conservative manifesto promised to leave the Customs Union it would be more consistent for the Prime Minister simply to rule one out.'
In the letter, PM insists her deal 'provides for benefits of customs union' while enabling independent trade policy

She says CU membership would require us to be in Single Market & accept free movement - a breach of Labour's manifesto

Here’s the excerpt:
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Exclusive:

Nicky Morgan, IDS & Owen Paterson warn PM that backstop is a 'monumental' issue that cannot be resolved with 'few cursory tweaks'

They say the PM appears to have "forgotten" fact her deal was defeated by 230 votes

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
Here's the killer line in the Morgan, Paterson and IDS op-ed:

'It is almost as if PM has forgotten the scale of the original Withdrawal Agreement’s defeat (by 230 votes) or how unacceptable the Backstop proposals remain to significant numbers of MPs on both sides of the House.'
It means the fragile truce between PM and Tory MPs is already on the brink of breaking.

'The backstop in anything like its present form is simply never going to pass the Commons,' Morgan, IDS & Paterson say.
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The Malthouse proposal is different from Boris Johnson's, though in some ways related to it.

Jesus Christ

Let's remind ourselves what Boris Johnson wants.

Withold payment until we get a trade deal
No backstop for the Irish border
Malthouse, who insists he's not Boris Johnson in a different wig, wants:

Withold payment until we get a trade deal. Replace the backstop with a full trade agreement, with an extended transition
So Johnson and Malthouse - they were chums when Johnson was Mayor of London - both want much the same thing. Renegotiate the withdrawal agreement, withhold money until they get a trade agreement, and Europe obliged to solve the Irish border.
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