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Just tuning belatedly into Ivan Rogers up at @LordsEUCom & hear, re: trade negs, "secrecy doesn't work ... [&] ... has been a serious mistake in the current process". &, "What is UK trade policy?" - debate re: tariffs "needs to be had in both Houses" #Brexit @DavidHenigUK
Ivan Rogers tells @LordsEUCom that chief negotiator for next round of negs w/ EU should be in No10/Cabinet Office. Shouldn't be DExEU. Bases view on Q of trust: chief negotiator has to be trusted across Whitehall, by all depts, & not seen as having dept'mental skin in the game
& now Ivan Rogers saying that knowledge of the EU in Whitehall became a "rarified art". But Brexit now forcing domestic civil servants to engage with EU more than they ever did before referendum.
can't help noting a bit of a contrast today: while what's going on in the Commons is going on, @LordsEUCom taking detailed evidence about the skillset & departmental backgrounds that'll be needed in the UK's future mission to the EU once UK is a third country
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& so it comes to pass. Unamended gov motion defeated 258-303 #BrexitNextSteps
if it helps people understand what's going on, one way I thought of thinking of it is that, on 29 Jan, one HoC majority voted for, say, 'blue'. And a different HoC maj voted for 'yellow'. Today's gov motion said 'green'. But there isn't a majority for that.
one of the oddities of the situation is that 'green' (in this analogy) - i.e. a position including *both* the Spelman anti-'no-deal' amendment *&* the Brady anti-backstop amendment - *is* the official view of the House: it's the resolution passed on 29 Jan....
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OK, I've now read the transcript of today's debate & since the Constitutional Reform & Governance Act 2010 (CRaG Act) seems to have hit the headlines & there's a degree of confusion around, a thread just to clarify (I hope): 1/
The CRaG Act says that a treaty that needs ratifying must be laid before Parliament for 21 sitting days, without the House of Commons resolving against its ratification, before the gov may ratify it. 2/
The Act is primarily a vehicle to ensure the gov publishes, & tells Parliament about, treaties at least 21 sitting days before it ratifies them. 3/
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A member of @LordsEUCom just asked Brexit Sec Stephen Barclay *when* the gov will decide that it's gone as far as it can with the Withdrawal Agreement & *when* we're going to know what's happening; we got 'gov isn't running down clock & wants to get deal asap' @jonworth
Re: #Brexit legislation Stephen Barclay tells @LordsEUCom that in case of *deal* timing is “challenging”; prospects depend partly on parliamentarians' attitudes - does everyone accept that deal is happening & needs legislating for, rather than engaging in more guerrilla tactics
Talking about *deal* legislation, Stephen Barclay seems only to be referring to Withdrawal Agreement Bill - doesn't mention any other Bills;
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