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NEW: Donald Tusk told Theresa May today that Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit plan could be a promising way out of the current impasse buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
During today's meeting, Tusk also recalled the EU27 position, and reiterated that the withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation.

May, I am told, "did not offer any new concrete proposals"
Tusk also asked May for an indication of a timeline but got no clear answer.
Finally, May raised Tusk's remarks. I am told that Tusk stands by his statement, and does not regret it.

'The truth is painful, but always more useful'

Full story on the May-Tusk meeting: buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
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Alberto Nardelli
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EU27 ambassadors met this afternoon to get a debrief on Juncker-May meeting, as well as meetings with Barclay/Cox, and Corbyn

- EU position is unchanged. Withdrawal agreement cannot be reopened. EU can only reexplain the backstop, and work further on the political declaration
- prime minister May said she wouldn’t extend art. 50, but the feeling is this could be tactics to push MPs to the brink

- EU will not hold a special Brexit EUCO unless it’s clear a deal has support in the Commons. Feeling is that a consensus is not in sight yet
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stressed that he wanted to avoid no-deal, but the feeling is that his priority is an election.

- Work on no-deal preparations & legislation is ramping up.
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NEW: A Longtime Friend Of Vladimir Putin’s Has Been Invited To Speak At An EU-Funded Conference buzzfeednews.com/article/albert…
The former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, who was is on a US sanctions list, is set to speak at an EU-funded conference later this month. The event is due to be opened by the director for strategic communications of the EEAS buzzfeednews.com/article/albert…
UPDATE: following our story last night, Vladimir Yakunin's participation at an EU-funded conference scheduled for later this month is "no longer foreseen" buzzfeednews.com/article/albert…
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May said in #PMQs that due diligence was carried out on Seaborne by Deloitte, Mott MacDonald and Slaughter & May.

Deloitte: “The standard tests could not be completed on Seaborne given a lack of existing financial information due to it only being incorporated in April 2017.”
via the National Audit Office report: nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Mott MacDonald: "The review flagged 'significant execution risks' relating to the Seaborne bid."
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Mark Stone
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V interesting from EU official on the Tusk / May meeting - @eucopresident told @theresa_may that the @jeremycorbyn plan (remaining in a customs union) would be a promising way out of the current impasse /1
According to the EU source, @theresa_may did not offered *any* (their verbal emphasis) new concrete proposals on way forward.

Mr Tusk said that for any solution proposed there must be a likely majority for it in the House of Commons. /2
.@eucopresident asked @theresa_may how she sees the timeline working in the UK - up to 29 March and beyond it. He received no clear answer. /3
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) is Corbyn right to demand "No deal" is off the table before talking to May on #Brexit?

Corbyn is refusing to even talk to May about a Brexit settlement until May takes "No Deal" off the table
Your stance on this will come down to - do you believe there's a 4th option?
2) the 3 options for #Brexit are:
- No deal
- May's deal
- No Brexit (by stopping A50)
Corbyn has essentially dismissed all 3. He wants to "respect the result" and deliver Brexit,only not May's version but a "Jobs first" one
Does this 4th option exist?
3) here's Corbyn's position statement on that 4th option.

It requires the EU27 to give the UK (a 3rd country) a Veto over their trade deals.

"close relationship with the SM" is meaningless, it's like saying "access to" and just means "Free Trade Deal worse than SM membership"
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Anthony Painter
@anthonypainter
The most powerful person in the UK is now Jeremy Corbyn. If #brexit happens it will be on his terms; if we remain it will be because he has backed a referendum and, if remain is to win it is likely to have been led by him. Remarkable.
And the penny may soon drop- his pathway to power is not through competing with the Tories to own #leave but instead by turning #Remain into a socialist cause. #brexit
What's more, #remain will have to accommodate the fact that Corbyn is their best path to victory. And Corbyn is not going to dance to a centrist tune. (And thanks for all the gifs and emoticons- appreciated).
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) Megathread - Yes, the #Brexit vote is illegitimate, and it's not elitist to say so

Simply put, a vote that is based on misconceptions and illusions but which *cannot* be reversed is an affront to democracy therefore the very concept of the referendum is illegitimate
2) So why was the #Brexit vote illegitimate? Well, broadly speaking:
1) The Brexit we "voted for" ends FoM, the ECJ & payments to EU
2) This will be severely damaging to the economy & jobs
3) If the public was asked today the same question but were told the above,Remain would win
3) Leave simply would not win if the costs of the #Brexit they promised were revealed honestly in a second referendum. The only way they could win is if these costs were obscured again

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Brexitshambles #FBPE
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THREAD (1) When the likes of Hannan feel the need to 'brush off' something so critical to the right-wing/neo-con #Brexit wet dream, we find digging a little deeper to be useful. After all, ground breaking 'shadow trade deals' with right-wing US think tanks is no small fish.
(2) In fact, given the growing negativity surrounding the #Brexit negotiations, compounded by the Govts' own damning economic analysis, one would have thought Hannan and Fox et al, would be shouting from the roof tops about their bespoke 'shadow US-UK trade deal.' Wouldn't you?
(3) The problem for our intrepid trade deal making duo, as almost always, is to be found in the detail; just what are, and who is, behind these neo-con US think tanks? Perhaps Daniel would enlighten us?
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tony nog #FBPE
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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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