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NEW: Boris Johnson has today backed a Singapore-style tax free port at Bristol… six weeks after receiving a £25,000 payment from the owners of Bristol port

Cash-for-policy questions for the Tory leadership frontrunner:
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Boris Johnson today endorsed a report recommending Bristol port as one of six tax free ports

The report showed Bristol port could benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds of extra cash per year

Six weeks ago Bristol port paid Johnson £25,000...

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The Johnson-backed report specifically recommends Bristol port as a candidate tax free zone...

Today Johnson said his govt will "consider specific candidate sites"...

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💥 EXC: Leaked emails reveal the all out war at the heart of People’s Vote

– Alastair Campbell and Hugo Dixon’s bitter row over Tom Baldwin

– The extraordinary email from AC Grayling and others that PV is 'not fit for purpose' due to 'warring factions'

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The great and good of the pro-EU movement made an extraordinary intervention to Roland Rudd to complain about the "warring factions" in People's Vote

Here it is in full:

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Here are Alastair Campbell and People's Vote deputy chair Hugo Dixon rowing bitterly over the role of Tom Baldwin

“Enjoy your games Hugo”

"I think you have a lot more experience in political games"

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Alex Wickham
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Amber Rudd allies saying she has shifted on no deal today because “things have changed since March”. They say she accepts she has to compromise and now agree to put no deal back on the table
Rudd camp concede she has to compromise on no deal because everything else has failed and the Brexit Party changes the dynamic

They say the EU needs to compromise on a deal, ERG need to compromise to back it, and she needs to compromise to keep no deal in the govt’s “armoury”
Jeremy Hunt has also publicly questioned whether Rudd could serve in his cabinet if she didn’t shift on no deal. She says she wants to continue serving to “make a difference to people’s lives”
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NEW: Labour declares all out war on the BBC, accusing Panorama of “deliberate and malicious misrepresentations designed to mislead the public” in a detailed rebuttal of tonight’s documentary
This is an astonishing attack on the BBC’s journalism... Labour claims their responses to Panorama have been “misrepresented” by the programme and says the programme has selectively quoted and “deliberately misrepresented” the emails handed to them by hostile ex-staffers
Panorama claims Seumas Milne directly demanded to be involved in the disciplinary process. Full emails released by Labour appear to show the former employee who leaked the emails actually asked Loto for their view first... this was not mentioned by the BBC in its press release
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