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Thread: Decoding the leaked Cabinet memo on Brexit. Exhibit #1 - someone in 10 Downing Street clearly asked: could the Queen block Article 50 extension? Answer: Not without politicising the monarchy. 
#2 What the A50 delay request could lead to: a cross party majority in the Commons takes control...
#3 What May's team fear is that, once committed to an A50 extension the Commons instructs HMG how to use it. why? Because it ends the fantasy free trade project of the Tory right as early as Weds 13/3/19...
#4 - note there are no other details given of the Memo: date, facsimile, full text, author - only enough of the dynamite to scare a few Tories into opposing Cooper/Bowles...
#5 But what @CamillaTominey scoop shows is that May is running out of road. The A50 extension = major moral/psychological blow to May's 2-year project to bounce UK into hard Brexit. Only the Queen can dig May out of this predicament. She won't....
#6 ... that's why the self-serving clique in No.10 will probably go for a snap general election (I give it odds of 2:1) soon after the EUCO tells them to get lost on 21/3. 🍿 🍿 🍿
Here's the link to the remarkable leak story: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
