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NEW: Former education secretary @JustineGreening warns govt plans to raise tuition fees for EU students will "put up barriers" and see Brexit Britain lose the "talent war"

Ex-universities minister @SamGyimah also blasts the proposals as "short-sighted"

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Damian Hinds' proposal to hike fees for EU students has sparked a cabinet row: Philip Hammond and Greg Clark, a former universities minister, are said to be moving against: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
And former head of the foreign office Lord Ricketts says "this would be a calamitous policy" that would "deny to many thousands of young Brits the wonderful opportunity to live/study abroad" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
Guy Verhofstadt writes to Theresa May to say the EU will "never accept" the plan to raise fees... buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
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Alex Wickham
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EXCLUSIVE: Theresa May is to reject the British Muslims APPG definition of Islamophobia on free speech grounds

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In the Commons tomorrow ministers will oppose the definition which states “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
The definition has been formally adopted by Labour, the LibDems and the Scottish Conservatives.

But the government will reject it on free speech grounds and because Islam is a religion not a race
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Alex Wickham
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EXC: Who is behind the controversial facial recognition software used by the government to register EU citizens post-Brexit, which has been condemned by Remainers and privacy campaigners?

Two five-figure donors to Change UK. You couldn’t make it up...

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Privacy International says the Home Office app equates to “border guards knocking on every door in the U.K. and forcing EU nationals to show documentation“ and that "such use of biometrics across our lives is incredibly dangerous”
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Remain campaigner David Lammy warned it put the government “on track for another Home Office scandal on the scale of Windrush” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ch…
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Alex Wickham
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NEW: The Brexit Party's most senior election official says Tommy Robinson has been "persecuted" and Islamophobia is "made up"

Nigel Farage has distanced himself from his own election agent tonight:

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Nigel Farage has attempted to detoxify the Brexit Party and distance it from UKIP rhetoric.

But its most senior election official:
- said Tommy Robinson was "persecuted"
- backed Robinson's rally at the BBC
- repeatedly mocked the concept of Islamophobia
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Noel Matthews is the third senior Brexit Party official to be ditched by the leadership for their comments on Islam.

@wesstreeting: "It shows that Farage and his party are no more respectable than the racism he left behind in UKIP" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/br…
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
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Ben Kelly
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Our EU membership is due to end on March 2019. Calling for 'no deal' preparations to kick in immediately as if anything signficant can be done to mitigage the worse consequences is misguided. It's far too late now.
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