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There was one defeat for @jeremycorbyn at yesterday's emergency meeting of the NEC to approve Labour's EU elections manifesto. The draft included a call for a "nuclear free Europe" - which would have been seen as implying that a Labour...
government would not after all replace the Trident nuclear deterrent. Amidst all the hours of agonising about whether to back a Brexit referendum, this call to eliminate nukes was spotted by the GMB's Sarah Owen. Apparently this led an exasperated @HackneyAbbott to cry...
"take it out". And the disarmament rallying call was duly excised.
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.@tom_watson says of @Nigel_Farage that he "represents the creep of fascism across Europe". And although Farage will of course respond with outrage, he may think Watson has done him a favour. Because history tends to show that when Farage's supporters are denigrated by those...
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As you may have heard, that odd government proposal for the UK to collect tariffs on behalf of the EU, the FCA, seems to be back as one of the Brexit customs options to be offered to MPs. The ex ambassador to the EU Ivan Rogers is not exactly impressed. This is what he told me:..
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Presumably @theresa_may’s calculation in bringing back her Brexit deal for a vote in week of 3 June is that her party’s wipeout in the EU elections, likely to be announced a week earlier, will have so terrified her MPs that right at the last they will back her and her...
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