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Philip Hammond has promised a consultation later this year on a post-Brexit “Shared Prosperity Fund” potentially worth £15bn over a decade to replace EU economic development aid after UK leaves the bloc.

The big question: who will get the money?

ft.com/content/02d808…
Will ministers allocate structural funds according to...

1) EU programme 2014-2020 which was Cornwall & West Wales/Valleys?

2) 2021-2027 projections for ‘Developing’ regions which was Cornwall/Wales PLUS South Yorks, Tees Valley and Lincolnshire?

Or

3) political motivations?
thanks for everyone telling me the answer is “3” I had no idea
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Jim Pickard
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Only a cynic would read anything into the fact that Brexit department DEXEU has lost, in less than three years:

MINISTERS

Dominic Raab
David Davis
David Jones
Lord Bridges
Steve Baker
Baroness Anelay
Suella Braverman

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Olly Robbins
Philip Rycroft
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Jim Pickard
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European diplomat on Geoffrey Cox’s Brexit demands this week, via @Jack_Blanchard_ morning email

“The requests were insane”
- In German, how did he say it?

- Ich nichten lichten...
Chris: What language did you conduct this conversation in, Peter?
Peter: ...German.
Chris: You spoke to him about the technicalities of the deal in German?
Peter: Yes.
Chris: So what's the German for 30 percent?
Peter: Trenter percenter.
Chris: Dreißig prozent?
Peter: Yes.
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Jim Pickard
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SNP's Deirdre Brock asks the prime minister about a Number 10 visit by the former head of Cambridge Analytica in 2016:

"Who did Alexander Nix meet in 10 Downing Street, what were the purposes of this visit and why was it not reported in the transparency data?"

#PMQs
May replied that she would “look into the issue" but also vaguely claimed to have answered the question elsewhere
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