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Tom Newton Dunn
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Breaking: Gavin Williamson has been fired by the PM.
For the Huawei leak:
New Defence Secretary is Penny Mordaunt. First woman ever to hold the job, and a Royal Navy reservist.
I understand there will be NO criminal inquiry into Gavin Williamson, despite suggestions from some that he broke the Official Secrets Act.
New DFID Secretary is @RoryStewartUK (which gets him off the hook for having to resign as Prisons Minister in the summer if violence isn't down).
Gavin Williamson tells me: "I did not leak this, and to my dying day I will keep on insisting that". Also says he refused the PM's invitation to resign, as that suggests he accepted blame.
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Excl: Theresa May becomes first Tory leader in 185 years to face a grassroots vote to oust her. PM was told today that an association chairmen's petition has succeeded and Emergency General Meeting will be triggered in June (1/3)
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Here it is. May goes short - requests a new Brexit delay from ⁦@eucopresident⁩, but only until June 30 this year.
A big but: PM also announces UK will hold European Parliament elections on May 23 if no exit before then. So, she’s discreetly allowing the EU to impose a much longer flextension than June 30, without the political strength to ask for one herself. Very May-ist.
Remember, June 30 is the extension May also asked for two weeks ago. The EU27 threw that out within an hour, and put May in a room without windows for 5 hours until they came up with their own plan. Expect exactly the same again in Brussels next Weds.
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Looks like Steve Barclay will resign next week if the deal falls at MV3 and PM applies for a longer delay. He makes it clear he won’t support that... so she’ll need a 4th Brexit Secretary.
Barclay’s words here also directly contradict No10 last night (and @DLidington this morning) who insisted the whole Cabinet have agreed to back PM’s two delay plan, despite the free vote.
And if Barclay goes, how can Cairns, Fox, Grayling, Leadsom, Mordaunt, Truss and Williamson stay on with any personal integrity intact, having also protested against the policy last night?
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