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“no evidence that hedge funds that have backed Johnson’s election campaign have “millions of £s” of speculative bets on no-deal Brexit. They have millions of pounds of speculative bets on UK companies but....this is another tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory”
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in an ideal world one would want a former chancellor to produce some kind of evidence for this kind of claim...
much more interesting, three years later, is the question of why Farage conceded defeat on the night of the referendum when he was aware of accurate polling suggesting Leave had won

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Leaked government paper warns that the UK’s efforts to strike a US trade deal after Brexit could “severely limit” Britain’s ability to negotiate an equivalent agreement with the EU.

ft.com/content/778b2d…
The document says relaxing SPS standards in the UK to get a US trade deal could damage public health.

“Weakening our SPS regime to accommodate one trade partner could irreparably damage our ability to maintain UK animal, plant and public health, and reduce trust in our exports.”
Documents via @UE @damiankahya @JSandlerClarke @lukewbarratt

Labour’s @BarryGardiner says:

“Their (US) rules specify ‘acceptable levels’ of maggots in orange juice, rat droppings in ginger and hormone levels in beef. The right level should be zero.”

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/10/07/bre…
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Jim Pickard
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Jacob Rees-Mogg and his business partner were negotiating to sell their fund management company to an American group for up to £100m during the summer before talks collapsed after objections from colleagues.

Scoop by me and @OwenWalker0

ft.com/content/c3918a…
well I didn’t expect this reaction in the comments section
Jacob Rees-Mogg would have made up to £15m from the deal
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Jim Pickard
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Awkward letter to Times from leading constitutional expert
"The Queen will have been used to make a Conservative party political broadcast"
arguably you could say that (to some extent) about every Queen’s Speech
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