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"We've asked the public too many times already for their views on Brexit": @sajidjavid bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Would you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum? "Leave, but there isn't going to be another referendum if I become PM": @BorisJohnson
"The current deal has 270 votes. We need 45 more." I think @RoryStewartUK's sums are wrong. It had 286 votes & needed 30 more commonsvotes.digiminster.com/Divisions/Deta…
"We don't want another referendum, but if there was one I would vote to leave": @Jeremy_Hunt
How would you get the deal through parliament? "My Union Guarantee will help me secure the support of the DUP": @michaelgove
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John Rentoul
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Tory leadership 3rd ballot result (change since 2nd ballot):
Boris Johnson 143 +17
Jeremy Hunt 54 +8
Michael Gove 51 +10
Sajid Javid 38 +5
Rory Stewart 27 -10
Gove just 3 votes away from Hunt now, and could overhaul him with Stewart and Javid's votes
Seems Stewart and Javid both lost votes because MPs think they can't win, but Javid gained some from Raab's backers
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John Rentoul
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Corbyn tiptoes towards backing a new EU referendum while insisting policy is unchanged
“I have stuck faithfully to it.” Translation: I am the true servant of the sovereign annual conference, unlike metropolitan liberal remoaners
Plaudits for @oliver_wright, whose report in this morning's Times was accurate
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John Rentoul
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Tory MPs voting now; 80 entries in my 3rd ballot sweepstake – median guesses:
Johnson 141
Hunt 48
Gove 45
Stewart 39
Javid 36
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Twenty-five minutes until the ballot – and the sweepstake – closes. Hurry, hurry. Enter here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Ballot and sweepstake now closed. Median guesses (131 entries):
Johnson 141
Hunt 48
Gove 45
Stewart 39
Javid 36
Result at 6pm
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So #NoDeal holds No Fear for 3 of the remaining 6 Tory contenders? They assume such bravado gives leverage against the EU.

Perhaps now wd be a good time to check on how prepared UK is compared to the EU, which published its latest update this week.
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Interesting bits from the Prime Minister’s #Brexit letter …bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…. The absolute primacy of ending free movement as the driver of the Referendum result- perhaps the one Leave argument she personally buys..
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Second the stress on the benefits of ending vast annual payments.. But she knows that direct savings will not be huge as we take over programmes (CAP, replacement structural funds), incur costs of setting up own agencies
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