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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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