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.@BorisJohnson and Dominic Cummings have organised a comprehensive Vote Leave takeover of government. This is the most ruthless reshaping of an administration I have ever witnessed. It is focussed on the sole aim of delivering Brexit by 31 October. And probably fighting...
autumn general election.
To quote Eminem, as I imagine @BorisJohnson regularly does, you get one shot
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Robert Peston
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Big blow to @BorisJohnson that @RuthDavidsonMSP is set to quit. @theresa_may only clung on to office thanks to the seats Davidson unexpectedly won for the Tories in Scotland. If those seats are now at risk, which they may well be with her resignation, a general election...
becomes a much riskier prospect for Johnson, especially if Davidson chooses not to be silent in retirement. Within the Remain camp, there's been a hope for some time that Davidson would become their de facto leader and figurehead. If she does, then the balance of power...
between Johnson and his Remain opponents would shift dramatically, away from Johnson.
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The parliamentary battle of our age, and of many ages - over how and whether the UK Brexits - begins, with the signal from Downing Street that the Commons will rise some time between 10 and 13 September and will return for a Queen's Speech on 14 October. This will leave MPs...
with just a few days in early September and in late October to block the no-deal Brexit many of them fear. One source close to @BorisJohnson said the decision to suspend parliament for a month was "not [about] Brexit, you cynics". Which shows a certain sense of humour. But...
another No10 source added: "The new Queen’s Speech will be about an agenda for improving the NHS, helping police fight violent crime, stopping violent criminals getting out early, investing in science and infrastructure, and attacking the cost of living with aggressive...
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No.10 source on the legality of suspending parliament for a month: “lawyers are absolutely confident the courts cannot interfere with a bog standard Queen’s Speech process. No10 has been extremely careful to do everything by the book in the normal way...
“and there’s no precedent for the courts having any locus on this”. Government lawyers believe they are providing no hook for a judicial review, since they are not trying to escape the provisions of the recent Northern Ireland legislation [which forced government...
to update MPs on progress to recall the NI executive]. “This process [of proroguing or suspending parliament prior to Queen’s Speech] is ancient, so there is no scope for legislation [to stop it] or judicial review” said source
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Graham Kings
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This @thetimes article on Dominic #Cummings is Cummings’ & #No10’s spin to rehabilitate him after recent media attacks. It may work, because, typically, it conceals well its aim... However, it reveals also worrying traits. See below 1/several...
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The appointment of Dominic Cummings - a man David Cameron described as a "career psychopath" - as Boris Johnson's senior adviser shows just how toxic Johnson's government will be. More on Cummings here:
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@chrisinsilico Why the overspending? Dominic Cummings has admitted Vote Leave used AIQ to place 1.5 billion ads like these on individual Facebook feeds in the days before the referendum. All completely under the radar of the regulator.
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Nick Cohen
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Dominic Cummings said there should be no plan for Brexit because solid proposals would place leavers in an “unwinnable debate”
As a propaganda tactic to win a referendum this was brilliant.
As a strategy for Britain’s future, it was a disaster
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politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/07/…
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Ben Kelly
@TheScepticIsle
Dominic Cummings blog. The policy is to leave the Single Market and the Customs Union. Yet no preparation has been done or will be done to implement this policy or manage its consequences. Only conclusion to be drawn is this policy cannot be carried out. dominiccummings.com/2018/05/23/on-…
What a botched job. Government has, so far, rejected the EEA, rejected the idea of an Association Agreement, and insists on removing itself from all apparatus of economic integration.
Having rejected several viable options & come up with no others, it is being forced into a scenario worse than any of those options. First the customs union, then a regulatory union attached - the transition status is thus permanent. Stupid.
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Steve Parks
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Once again the @frontlineclub is packed with journalists, @Byline_Media folk, and TV cameras for the latest revelations in the Cambridge Analytica / Trump / Brexit saga from two whistleblowers.

Follow this thread for live-tweeting coverage, and forgive my typos...
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