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In a nutshell, here is the dilemma for Tory rebels and the opposition Labour Party. If they lose vote tomorrow, they lose their best chance of blocking no deal. And if they win, Johnson will say they have undermined him and forced him to hold general election on a day before...
17 Oct EU council. In my estimation he actively wants to fight Labour and a disunited opposition, so long as they trigger it and he is seen to be resisting - so that he can claim he is only going back to country to honour the people’s earlier vote for Brexit. This may be...
a bluff. But it does not feel it. Because Johnson only has a future in 10 Downing Street if he marginalises the Brexit Party and if he secures a working majority. Otherwise he will be the lamest of lame duck PMs and one with minimal political life expectancy
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Ahead of the looming general election, moderate Labour MPs are understandably upset by an instruction they say the party has given to suspend the selection of new candidates in seats where the serving MP is retiring or has defected, to “concentrate on the trigger ballot...
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Number 10 replies to my question about whether cabinet ministers saw advice on legality of suspending parliament: “No10 told Amber Rudd's office before she resigned that she could see the full legal advice; she chose to resign without reading it.” Does not say whether other...
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Has any member of cabinet seen the full legal advice given to the prime minister which persuaded Johnson proroguing or suspending parliament is lawful? @JulianSmithUK asked for it, on the day cabinet was bounced into agreeing prorogation. @AmberRuddHR asked for it subsequently...
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see FULL legal advice - not just summaries - on all contentious issues. Will Cabinet now get the advice after today’s Court of Session judgement? For their own self-preservation perhaps they should see it, and have that deferred (ahem) robust cabinet debate on whether closing...
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