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Nick Gutteridge
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IDS: 'There’s nothing new or bold about this bad buffet of non Brexit options'

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: 'There’s nothing new or bold about this deal'

Charlie Elphicke: 'This is even more of a dog’s breakfast than the last deal'

I see the PM's speech went down much as expected.
All three of these MPs, although amongst the 'hard Brexiteer' camp, actually voted for the Withdrawal Agreement in March.
For the flip side of the coin, worth checking out @HenryNewman timeline about now. He is, as ever, making a decent fist of promoting the content of the latest package (which shouldn't all be dismissed as insignificant, even precious little of it is actually new).
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Nick Gutteridge
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At another @epc_eu Brexit event, this time with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who will be talking about the future of Scotland-EU relations and her view on the situation in Westminster. Will put her quotes below 👇
Sturgeon says 'the chances of compromise have all but disappeared' given the state of the Tory leadership debate and so 'increasingly the likeliest way of avoiding a hard or no deal Brexit is for the UK to avoid Brexit altogether'.
Sturgeon then jokes: 'I can't imagine why anybody would want to be leader of the Conservative Party.'
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Grabbed a chat with Lib Dem leader Vince Cable, who was in town today for the ALDE pre-summit meeting with 8 EU PMs. He said they were 'full of congratulations we did so well because we’ve helped build up the Liberal group into a much more powerful position than before'.
Cable said the 8 Liberal PMs are 'very keen Britain remains' and he told them 'there’s every reason to expect that we’re going to stay'. He said he's confident that if the UK needs another extension for a 2nd referendum 'they would seek to accommodate' it.
The Lib Dems' 16 MEPs will be 'very much a part of' the selection of the EU's next top jobs, Cable said. He spoke warmly about Margrethe Vestager, saying 'we will get behind her - she’s very able and has exactly the right approach to taking on the big multinationals'.
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Commissioner Malmstrom says after EU states approved limited trade talks with US (opposed by FR) 'we’re now ready to move into next phase of EU-US relations.' Was 'essential step to prevent potentially damaging trade war & end self-defeating cycle of measures & countermeasures.'
Malmstrom says the proposed deal, covering industrial goods, will increase EU exports to US by 8% & US exports to EU by 9%. Insists: 'Agriculture will certainly not be part of these negotiations. This is a red line for Europe. TTIP is in the freezer...obsolete.'
Malmstrom confirms UK will be involved in the EU-US trade talks now that Article 50 has been extended: 'As long as the UK is a member of the EU they will of course be adequately informed and engaged as any other [Member State].' How active UK will be though is another question.
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Sam Coates Times
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EXC: Anne-Marie Trevelyan @annietrev - a brexiteer who voted against May's deal last night - tells me she was surprised and dismayed to receive a text from a Tory MP colleague yesterday which said:

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@annietrev made the point to me that if this had been on Twitter, the police could well have been called.

She says she's not intimidated, but thinks it utterly inappropriate.

The MP sent her a number of text urging she back the deal, of which this was the last.
@annietrev will not name the person who sent the messages, other than to say it's a Tory MP.
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Key #Brexit take-aways from #UACES2018 (one of the largest European Studies conferences):

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