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Faisal Islam
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Peach Juice, social media, Boris, Fukushima, trade leverage & diplomacy - from 2017.... as part of a joint PM statement with some positive words on doing a post Brexit trade deal, Government promised to lobby to lift restrictions on Fukushima foodstuffs within the EU... #r4today
Here’s the video from 2017...
Lobbying EU to lift Fukushima food bans was written in to this the joint declaration on Prosperity Cooperation signed by May & Abe as the basis for the Trade and Investment Working Group- as was a “smooth and orderly” Brexit...
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Faisal Islam
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Matters looking rather ropey in the Brexit negotiations. There’s apparently now nothing substantive planned until Biarritz G7 meeting at end of month. You’d expect the sort of briefings emerging from Brussels tonight, and a pinch of salt required etc BUT...
... sending the message that they have interpreted the new negotiator Frost’s meetings as consistent only with leaving with No Deal and calling a GE.. “they can’t climb down from this”...
They recognise that the UK Government is now trying to isolate and put personal pressure on Irish leader Leo Varadkar. So they purposely sent a message of full support for the Irish at the EU Council debrief... and for the backstop etc.
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Faisal Islam
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There is some truth to this - the Fixed Term Parliament Act does clearly give the incumbent PM the role to set the date of the election, ie potentially after Oct 31st... but the physics of this manoeuvre, indeed even being seen to brief it could reap quite the opposite by Sept...
Here is the relevant bit of the FTPA - section 7. Even after a hypothetical loss of a vote of no confidence, and 14 days elapsing without regaining it “the polling day for election is to be appointed by HM by proclamation upon the recommendation of the PM”...
... but if seriously contemplated, you’d have a Government headed by a PM who lost confidence vote on 2nd Parliamentary sitting of his office, having never won one, nor won an election majority, pushing through a significant irreversible outcome, explicitly voted against by HoC..
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Faisal Islam
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Carney: Bank working to ensure financial system works whatever form Brexit takes...

But financial stability is not market stability, in no deal no transition Brexit... preparations cannot eliminate fundamental changes... businesses expect output and employment to fall in No Deal
Carney says his former colleague the Trump official Gary Cohn was “wrong” to tell @BBCJonSopel that No Deal is preferable to continued uncertainty - said its always better to get a deal with a transition
I ask Carney if Downing St should rely on a massive monetary stimulus from the Bank of England in event of No Deal: “it depends” he replies - points to inflationary impact of tariffs and sterling falls.

Says No Deal, uniquely will be simultaneously both a demand & a supply shock
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