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Faisal Islam
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Some Cabinet ministers have just gone back into Cabinet Office...
Me to Liam Fox - are we signing up to a customs union?
Pause.
Fox: “No”.

To Gauke: is the Gaukeward squad ready to compromise?
Gauke: “The Gaukeward squad is trying to get to a meeting”.

Rudd snuck in too.
It is a meeting of this EUXT European Union Exit and Trade Cabinet Brexit subcommittee:

“Routine no deal planning” says one source... hmmmm.
On the way into EUXT
Me: Are you going to go for a customs union?
Trade Sec Liam Fox: No.
Which rather makes sense given the letter obtained by @tamcohen from Liam Fox to Conservative MPs attacking a customs union...
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Stewart aced that weakness question by saying he had lots of them... as you could see from the facial expressions in the cutaways of the other candidates #C4debate
In case anyone is wondering - here is the currently planned tariff rate for all cheese including cheddar under No Deal apply from Nov 1st without a deal - €24.9 per 100kg - currently zero from EU obviously... (NB its calculated in euros) #c4debate 🧀 gov.uk/government/pub…
Though I suspect @RoryStewartUK was making point about No Deal tariffs facing U.K. Farmers exporting cheddar to the EU... in which case No Deal WTO MFN tariff would be exactly what we currently apply as members of EU to third countries - a whopping €188.20 per 100kg vs zero now
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Faisal Islam
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By my calc BJ has done zero sitdown broadcast ivs let alone debates in whole of 2019, indeed 1 set (last Sept) since he resigned from Cabinet... did turn up at Commons live point after May’s lost votes couple of times..at presser this week follow up qs prevented by removing mics
Anyway - it’s not like he’s bad at doing TV interviews or debates - I guess it avoids hostages to fortune. But there genuinely are a host of very interesting policy proposals for which he claims he will have a “new mandate” which will not have been subject to public scrutiny...
This guy makes the point well 🤔
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Faisal Islam
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V odd this “race to be PM” from afar - tax plans that won’t pass this Parliament, Brexit “plans” that won’t pass Parliament, promise not to have GE - promises being made to tiny selectorate that aren’t in hands of winner to deliver...

It’s like a unicorn Grand National.
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Hancock missed a trick there - I thought he was going to say - "you heard about the cat that can solve Brexit - I am that cat". #r4today
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