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.@JohnCryerMP letter to his constituents (attached) says he would back Kyle/Wilson initiative for MPs to support @theresa_may’s Brexit deal so long as it is ratified in people’s vote. This really matters because he was backing Brexit and he chairs Parliamentary Labour Party...
Labour MPs are conspicuously shifting towards support for referendum - and the big question is whether @theresa_may would grasp the lifeline for her deal she looks likely to be thrown by the likes of Cryer and (after @johnmcdonnellMP interview with @chedwardes yesterday) even...
possibly @jeremycorbyn too.
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.@Jeremy_Hunt on Today reinforces message of @theresa_may that if she loses vote it will be EU’s fault: he warns EU leaders to take care the impasse “doesn’t inject poison into our relations for many years to come” and warns that if EU doesn’t make...
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This is what happened in @tom_watson’s meeting with Labour peers. Party’s deputy leader told them his new group of Labour moderates would be called the Future Britain Group. It would meet next week for first time. And would focus on long-term post-Brexit challenges. He also...
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Robert Peston
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Attached is the official position of the official Brexit campaign. Vote Leave said UK would not even start the legal process to leave until we had negotiated an acceptable Brexit deal, let alone be days from leaving without having a clue about what kind of Brexit we will...
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current Horlicks (if that is not to be too offensive to bedtime drinks). Thanks to @TheScepticIsle for reminding me of that Vote Leave promise. And please Vote Leave leaders, @michaelgove and @BorisJohnson, tell us how you rationalise what you said then with where we are now.
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Ben Kelly
@TheScepticIsle
Support for ‘no deal’ Brexit is the pinnacle of Leave's descent into zealotry. The end result of refusing to plan

Like Trump, 'no deal' advocates have flooded the debate with “alternative facts”
It won't end well

THREAD! PLEASE RETWEET!

#Brexit #WTOBrexit #NoDealBrexit #SOS
The increased support for a ‘no deal’ Brexit is the ultimate failure of the Leave movement. It’s the inevitable consequence of the refusal to grasp details, come to terms with complexity & coalesce around a plan. Compromise can be frustrating. So instead they will have a tantrum.
Some Brexiteers advocated sensible solutions. The EFTA/EEA solution gained a lot of traction in the years before the ref. Even Farage had promoted it & countless others. See Farage below from 2011 essentially making the ‘Liberal Leave’ case!
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Alexandrine Kántor
@Alexa_Kantor
Theresa May's machiavelic plans have to stop.

If she really believes her negotiations are that Strong and Stable, she should stop this embarrassing political circus and openly go for her No-Deal #Brexit plan, instead of sneakily engineering it.

We know that's your plan. 1/10
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✔ No hard border (#GoodFridayAgreement)
❌ No customs unions
❌ No single market
❌ No freedom of movement
The EU wanted a soft #Brexit. So no Backstop. 3/10
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#Brexit thread:

So. Tomorrow the House of Commons will vote on a series of possible amendments to Theresa May's 'Plan B' - or rather the 'plan of action to achieve a Plan B' - which itself officially reads as follows:
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@Rowland72James
#BREXIT craziness update so maybots deal is blown out of the water l. Similarly corbyns vote of no confidence fails and won't be backed by SNP and lib dems
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CER
@CER_EU
Big week for #Brexit – here's thread with @CER_EU recent thinking: what happens if/when MPs vote against @theresa_may deal tomorrow; how a UK-EU customs union is likely if deal is passed; how Brexit will hit UK services exports; and how much leave vote has already hurt UK economy
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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

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