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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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— "Kill the bill": Queen's Speech causes problems for Grieve before parliament is prorogued

— Whitehall sources say proroguing could force rebels to have to table their bill again after October 14, eating up more days

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— Ministers and aides have looked at the legal consequences for the prime minister of refusing to resign in the event he loses a confidence vote, whether he would be breaking the law, and what would happen if he did

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— In a sign of the measures Downing Street is prepared to take to defeat the rebels, one proposal is to create bank holidays to prevent Parliament from being recalled while it is prorogued

— This idea has been looked at by No10

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— No10 also looking at how it could filibuster any bill by rebel MPs when it reaches the Lords

— Johnson allies convinced they can derail legislation in the time left

— Last resort is ennobling new pro-Brexit peers to kill any bill

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Whitehall source: “This is the biggest parliamentary showdown since the civil war. It will come down to who is cleverer: Dom and Nikki or John Bercow and Dominic Grieve."

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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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Alex Wickham
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EXC: Government adverts telling EU citizens how to register to stay in the UK after Brexit have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for being "misleading"

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Fresh embarrassment for the government's beleaguered EU Settlement Scheme...

Its adverts claimed "All you need is your passport or ID card and to complete an online form"

The ASA say that advice was wrong and misleading and have banned the adverts

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Home Office conceded to the ASA that "it was not possible to include all aspects of the application process in a short ad"

ASA said the ad breached the code on two counts and banned it: "The ad must not be broadcast again in the form complained about"

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