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“Nigel Farage has been more successful than any politician, other than Margaret Thatcher, of getting his agenda through, and he has done it from outside Parliament”: Ann Widdecombe, Brexit Party candidate, on @GMB
Widdecombe in favour of a hard border in Ireland
You can imagine Juncker, Tusk & Varadkar in that meeting: "How can we force the UK to stay? Let's make up some dribble about the border"
Can understand the emotional power of "just get it done", but how? A no-deal Brexit is undeliverable: parliament won't allow it
Going to start calling Farage's outfit the Remain and Complain Party
Naturally, @Dannythefink got there first, and better thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/a…
Brilliant by @Dannythefink on the long view
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John Rentoul
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#PMQs about to begin. Lidington vs Thornberry. Independent politics team standing by to comment on Facebook video afterwards
Interesting exchanges re Irish border after Lyra McKee's death. Andrew Grice and @LizzyBuchan will be commenting here after #PMQs facebook.com/pg/indypolitic…
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Interesting chart from @YouGov via @MattChorley @timesredbox nuk-tnl-deck-email.s3.amazonaws.com/2/daf719b7ee19…
But Con could be added to "Leave", taking it to 46% vs "Remain" 32%, with Labour ("Don't Know") 22%
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No. Still not a single policy in sight thebrexitparty.org At least I could find its site though, unlike Change UK
Its only policy, well known, is to leave EU on WTO terms, which is (a) not possible because parliament won't allow it (b) awkward because we'd want to talk to EU about trade anyway & so would have to negotiate the same stuff as in govt's Brexit deal
Change UK has some broad-brush values, but no actual policies: doesn't even say referendum on website theindependent.group/who-we-are/
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