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the theme of business leaders being unhappy about Brexit is not new but I can't emphasise how depressed they now are about the Parliamentary shitshow
Here’s @cbicarolyn in @FT tonight:

“Carolyn Fairbairn said businesses were looking at the parliamentary infighting around Brexit with ‘a sense of absolute horror’.”

Interview via @Grepsul

ft.com/content/1376ce…
I wrote on Tuesday that business groups are desperately urging Number 10 to come up with a "Plan B"

ft.com/content/322131…
and now the CBI and TUC have written to Theresa May warning the prime minister:

"Our country is facing a national emergency....a Plan B must be found."
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Jim Pickard
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some people poking fun at Richard Harrington for threatening to resign for months - he’s finally done it - but he’s a thoroughly principled “Tory Wet” who cares deeply about the potential impact of no-Deal Brexit on British business, jobs and economy
here’s Harrington’s resignation letter accusing the government of “playing roulette” with people’s lives and livelihoods
also the loss of @AlistairBurtUK is telling, he was always seen as a pragmatic and competent minister across the Commons
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It’s March 25, 2019 and MPs are about to have multiple votes on what kind of Brexit we might have.

If you’d told people this two years ago they’d have thought you were out of your mind.
It’s March 26, 2019 and MPs are about to have multiple votes on what kind of Brexit we might have.

If you’d told people this two years ago they’d have thought you were out of your mind.
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who do you want as interim prime minister
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nine thousand people with nothing better to do
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