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BREAKING:

if Philip Hammond is meeting the DUP today it can only mean one thing....

ft.com/content/1da623…
movie pitch: Indecent Proposal but with taxpayers money and everyone goes off happily without any regrets at all
Nigel Dodds is on @SkyNews saying "I wouldn't read anything into the fact that the chancellor was there other than he's a senior member of government".....We're not discussing cash in these discussions."
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Leaders of Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid, SNP were meant to meet Corbyn this afternoon. He didn't turn up.

Maybe due to Bercow bombshell but attendees unimpressed. "Not sure it shows his willingness to work cross-party," says one attendee.

New meeting fixed for tomorrow.
here's part of the *rather pointed* statement just released by the four party leaders:

"We welcome the opportunity to sit down together with Jeremy Corbyn for the first time tomorrow. The UK faces an unprecedented crisis with Brexit, and Westminster remains deeply divided."
One source told me that the four weren’t given advance notice of the cancellation.

But Corbyn team denying that strongly:

“They were told at 1505 that JC couldn’t make 1630 and offered a time tomorrow which they accepted at 1632....”
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Jim Pickard
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John Bercow about to make a mysterious statement
Bercow now citing Erskine May to pole-axe Theresa May by questioning whether she can bring back the “meaningful vote” again if unchanged:

“It’s a necessary rule to ensure the sensible use of the House’s time.”

Lots of chuntering now as he builds up to a big announcement.....
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it pains me to break the news that Chris Grayling faces potential bill of up to £28m to re-negotiate his ferry no-Deal contracts because the existing deals only covers exit on March 29

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Brittany Ferries said that the two companies had already spent a significant quantity of money in recent months. “We have changed our schedules, paid port fees, the increased cost of fuel, extra staff and training.”
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