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NEW: Dominic Cummings ordered Tory aides to “ram” the phrase Surrender Act “down their throats” at a meeting last night

He said there would be an election in November and claimed Labour were trying to silence it because “they know it’s hurting them”

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☢️A Tory MP has compared Boris Johnson's Brexit strategy to the scene in HBO's Chernobyl with the red and blue cards

In their analogy Cummings plays bad-tempered chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov

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The three key moments Tory MPs say No10 has got wrong

— failing to stop the Benn law in parliament
— failing to realise Labour might block an election
— prorogation

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💥 Growing frustrations about the performance of Liz Truss — she did not impress UK officials or her hosts on her world tour

💥Tensions with Sajid Javid over PM pinching announcements

...as Johnson mulls post-election reshuffle to promote Brexiteers

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— No10 expecting Commons conference ambush this week in the form of new law to bring forward extension date, votes at 16, Lab-SNP pact to make Corbyn PM

— ministers on a rota to be in London for UQs

— helicopters from billionaire donor on standby

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New battle for the Tory party soul in Manchester not between left/right or even leave/remain, but revolutionaries v conservatives

Vote Leave see themselves as Leninists, a vanguard of the people pushing democratic norms to deliver the Brexit revolution

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Cummings ally says he is employing a Jose Mourinho strategy — making inflammatory public interventions to attract media attention to himself and relieve pressure on his players/Johnson

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NEW: A rift has opened up at the top of Boris Johnson’s govt between advisers loyal to Dom Cummings and other senior Johnson allies

— “parallel government” run by Eddie Lister
— top team split on aggressive media strategy
— election campaign power grab

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Key dividing line between the Vote Leave faction which sees leaving the EU as the end goal and is willing to achieve it by any means necessary, and a group of advisers led by Lister who see Johnson’s administration as a long-term project beyond Brexit

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A Tory election campaign against the Brexit Party would have to harden its position on any future deal, offering a reduced Brexit bill and rejecting ECJ involvement on citizens’ rights, as well as no compromise on the backstop, government official said buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/do…
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Baroness Hale mocking Boris Johnson over his “girly swots” gaffe this morning
People at the top of government astonished at Baroness Hale today

Govt source: "The independence of the judiciary and their slideshow choices is not something we can question."

Second govt source: "This shows a clear lack of judgment. Remind me what her job title is again?"
And another...

Third govt source gets in touch: “You wouldn't get Supreme Court Justices in the US publicly bragging about defeating the executive and mocking the President. But apparently our system is above board and theirs is somehow something to be feared.”
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Alex Wickham
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NEW: Boris Johnson's senior aides have ordered Tory MPs to call the EU 'crazy' if it rejects their new Brexit proposals

Internal memo sent tonight reveals how the govt plans to blame Brussels for 'ending negotiations' if talks break down

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Here is the blame game memo

— if Brussels refuses to negotiate on Northern Ireland customs, No10 will say the EU is "crazy" and has made a deal "impossible"
— it would be the EU that "ends negotiations" if this happens, Boris Johnson's aides claim

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The memo from Boris Johnson's senior aides tonight also differs from their public line that this is their take-it-or-leave-it final offer

"We are obviously happy to negotiate details," it says

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