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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...
not decide whether to support Leave or Remain till a special conference to be held AFTER the election. This will pass because @jeremycorbyn has support of trade unions and delegates who are at conference. But it is out of step with desire of most Labour members and supporters...
to remain in EU.
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Lots of people think Cummings wants to blow everything up. For what it is worth, I think he sincerely believes that a second referendum would lead to much greater civil disorder and damage to the fabric of UK than a no-deal Brexit. He may be wrong, possibly grotesquely...
so. But I talked with him about this long before he joined government. And I am in no doubt this is his conviction. I raise this because we need a rational debate about the costs and benefits of the limited choices we face, before it is too late
Let’s not forget this was @theresa_may’s position throughout her time as prime minister. Until recently it was a mainstream view
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There is probably now just a week or so from end of Tory conference for Johnson to make breakthrough on Brexit deal or for talks to end. Why? Well government sources tell me EU Commission has been told by British negotiators in no uncertain terms that Johnson will not quit...
to avoid being forced by Benn Act to ask for Brexit delay. And Brussels was also told that if Johnson is still PM on 19 October, he will find a way to get round law and refuse to ask for a delay. So Barnier and Juncker have literally no time to decide if Johnson is bluffing...
and if there is scope for backstop compromise. Labour, SNP, LibDems and rest of opposition also face an imminent deadline to decide whether Johnson bluffing and whether now the only surefire way to avoid no-deal Brexit is to attempt to remove him with Vote of no confidence...
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The Scottish National Party has come round to the idea that Jeremy Corbyn may shortly have to become temporary caretaker prime minister, in order to prevent a no-deal Brexit on 31 October and immediately afterwards hold a general election, I have learned...
A source close to the SNP leadership tells me that Ian Blackford, leader of the SNP in Westminster, and Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, are deeply concerned that it may now be impossible to prevent a no deal Brexit unless Boris Johnson is removed from office...
One said: "It is increasingly clear that we will have to instal a new prime minister via a vote of no confidence, so that we can request a delay to Brexit and hold an election. The convention is absolutely clear that...
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