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The Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland is staying put and will not resign unless and until @BorisJohnson breaks the law, I understand. Buckland has told the PM that honouring the rule of law is the defining issue for him. So the big moment for Buckland - and for...
the attorney general Cox and for half the cabinet - will come on 19 October, when Johnson will have to decide whether to honour the law by signing the pro-forma letter asking for a Brexit delay or break it by refusing to sign. For what it’s worth I am told Buckland asked the...
PM whether he intended to honour the Brexit delay law and Johnson replied “we are law makers not law breakers”. We’ll see
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Here is Labour’s draft statement on Brexit, to be approved by NEC. It commits a Labour government to negotiate new Brexit deal within three months of taking office and then putting that to British people in referendum vote three months later. Importantly it says Labour will...
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Cutting through all the noise (@riso_stephanie departure, @JunckerEU and @BorisJohnson warm words about wanting deal), it is crystal clear UK and EU are as far from agreement to replace backstop as ever. Multiple sources tell me that Johnson’s “non paper” proposals to...
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then it is full steam ahead with no deal preparations on both sides.
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I am told that the main official-to-official Brexit negotiations are no longer being led on the Barnier/Brussels side by @riso_stephanie, on the instructions of @JunckerEU. This could be significant since she is very much associated with the original backstop so maybe it...
shows an EU Commission determination to show an open mind. Or maybe it will have that effect. That said my other EU sources remain frustrated that they have still not seen what they regard as a practical proposal from @BorisJohnson to replace the backstop
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