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Special advisers at 7:55am meeting were ordered by Dominic Cummings to produce a list of tasks for their departments to prepare for no deal

SpAds were told it is time for them to 'interrogate' their departments and raise any Brexit planning issues with No10 ASAP
Cummings criticised Philip Hammond and Greg Clark for 'frustrating' Brexit during their time in govt

Per @SamCoatesSky, he warned SpAds they and their departments would not be allowed to behave in the same way
"Could have been an email" says one aide after their early start
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Alex Wickham
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NEW: No10 spent August wargaming how to eat up parliamentary time and achieve Brexit by any means necessary on Oct 31

Proroguing is just the beginning... more details here

“We're into the final ten minutes and we're holding the ball by the corner flag"

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Dominic Cummings and Nikki da Costa have explored a series of proposals they could deploy depending on the success of rebel attempts to thwart Brexit

— serious concern about the coming Northern Ireland debate described by Johnson allies as a “time bomb”

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— No10 looking at several mechanisms including a budget to create Commons debates and reduce parliamentary time for rebels to act

— Queen's Speech immediately reduces available days by 7, and in reality by more as conference recess now can't be cancelled

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Alex Wickham
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Hear Theresa May has recommended in her resignation honours list peerages for:

– her chief of staff Gavin Barwell
– deputy chief of staff JoJo Penn
– political secretary Stephen Parkinson
– press aide Liz Sanderson
Lords Leader's office directing me to No10 for this. No10 declined to comment. Barwell and Penn also declined to comment. Parkinson and Sanderson did not respond.
Sounds like something for Theresa May's director of communications Robbie Gibb too. When Cameron gave Craig Oliver a knighthood, May said it made her "wretch"
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Alex Wickham
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NEW: Boris Johnson’s women aides have expressed fury that they are being paid less than male colleagues

– one adviser is threatening to take the government to an employment tribunal
– several have lodged complaints about their salary packages

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– Out of nearly 100 SpAds, around 30 are women
– Fewer than 8 women are in the top two SpAd pay bands
– At least 22 women are in the bottom two pay bands
– One aide claims new women SpAds are being paid less than their male predecessors to do the same job

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Dominic Cummings told SpAds last week he was aware of their concerns about a gender pay gap but *denied* that there was a problem

This has not gone down well to say the least...

Cabinet Office has now promised to improve maternity rights for SpAds

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EU27 line on possibility of a special leaders' summit or EUCO is quite clear: "There is nothing more that the EU can do. The problem is in London, not in Brussels or the capitals of the 27. Hence, a meeting of the 27 right now serves no purpose" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
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