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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.
linguistic update: European officials now describing UK's Brexit ideas as "crazier and crazier"
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Jim Pickard
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Breaking:

Liam Fox has confounded his critics by signing a “trade continuity deal”...

....with Papua New Guinea and Fiji

Fox: “I am delighted.”
today Fiji, tomorrow the world
one small step for Fox, one negligible leap for the UK economy
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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:

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Dominic Raab
David Davis
David Jones
Lord Bridges
Steve Baker
Baroness Anelay
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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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Peter Foster
@pmdfoster
Right. It's Friday. A quick #Brexit sitrep, as I understand it, with chats from both sides.

Tldr: the tiller of SS Britannia seems stuck fast, and the No Deal rapids lie dead ahead....is there anything that will blow the ship to the safety of the shore? /1
There are lots of murmurs round Westminster that MPs now want to back the deal - this kind of stuff noted in @Jack_Blanchard_ playbook. /2
@Jack_Blanchard_ But dig a little deeper, and ask people in Commons/Lords if acceptance of a deal requires Cox/May to win changes to the backstop - a time-limit, an exit mechanism - they say 'oh yes, of course'... /3
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Joe Barnes
@Barnes_Joe
Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour delegation warned both Guy Verhofstadt and Michel Barnier that cross-party Brexit talks are non-existent with the Conservatives. Brussels has placed a lot of importance on such discussions to break the #Brexit deadlock.
Keir Starmer told Verhofstadt that they’d held one discussion in which Theresa May instantly shut down the idea of a customs union as part of the future relationship.
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Mark Stone
@Stone_SkyNews
Ahead of @theresa_may’s latest visit to Brussels, where are we with #Brexit?!

A not-so-short thread which I hope simplifies a seemingly never-ending process but one which could have an abrupt end in less than 40 days. /1
Some context first: The key problem is the backstop - the Irish Protocol to us its proper name

It’s a section of the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) - a 585-page legal text which, together with a shorter Political Declaration (PD), forms the divorce treaty between UK & the EU. /2
The two texts - the WA & the PD - were the consequence of nearly two years of negotiations.

They were finalised + agreed by both the UK government (@10DowningStreet) and the EU (@EU_Commission) late last year. /3

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Peter Foster
@pmdfoster
SO. #Brexit boils down to how - or if - the UK can ever leave the dreaded Irish backstop.

There is talk of a "review mechanism". So what might that be? How might it work?

Some thoughts after chats with both sides + experts 1/Thread

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
Let's start from the point of agreement.

Both sides say backstop is
a) necessary
b) temporary
c) should be superseded by future relationship

So there does need to be what one EU source calls an "unwinding" mechanism. /2
The problem (before we get to the detail of that mechanism) is that no-one can see what version of the Future Relationship can deliver on UK commitment to no return to a hard border in Ireland.

May's dual tariff or 'MaxFac' unicorns are dead. /3
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Adam Fleming
@adamfleming
#Brexit thoughts this AM. The draft Withdrawal Agreement has a Northern Ireland sub-committee to the Joint Committee and sounds like there's been progress on an arbitration panel for the governance of the treaty = forum to discuss exit from a temporary customs arrangement? (1)
ANOTHER reminder of what @MichelBarnier said about the UK-wide customs idea way back in July. Note the problems he said had to be solved to make it work. europa.eu/rapid/press-re… (2)
And finally, I've now seen FIVE different dates for an extra-special Brexit summit in November. But I've been told that my trip to the German Christmas markets on 1/2 December should be safe! (3
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