Thread by @RidgeOnSunday

A special recording at Podcast Live of the Sophy Ridge on Sunday Podcast beginning right now, with @SophyRidgeSky and @MattLavenderSky joined by special guest @JustineGreening - live tweets to follow!

The government is saying two contradictory things right now, says @SophyRidgeSky - they'll obey the law, and leave the EU on the 31st of October. So is there a cunning plan?
@MattLavenderSky isn't persuaded.

"Nobody knows where Britain will be on the first of November" says @JustineGreening.
But she adds she does know what the law says. "I should certainly hope" Boris Johnson obeys the law she says.

"I just want to see the detailed plan" for how Boris Johnson and Michael Gove will answer the promises they made to Leave voters, says @JustineGreening .

She'll listen to her constituency, which was heavily Remain- but @JustineGreening always wanted to see a route through for Brexit. She wants a unifying proposal, but the trouble with Theresa May's deal was it unified people- against it.

"I don't think the question of Europe and Brexit is ever going to bring Britain together...Brexit isn't going to be a thing that ever brings people together" says @JustineGreening .

Brexit has diverted parliament and focus away from the real issues says @JustineGreening . She had to leave her home of Rotherham to get on in life she says. Growing up as a Conservative in Rotherham you have a few arguments, she says- but it gave her a respect for other views.

"I became a conservative because I thought it was the party of effort and reward...I saw Labour as very negative...very ideological.
What's happened to my party is it's become ideological too. No deal is the most profoundly unconservative thing you can do." @JustineGreening

On the refendum, @JustineGreening says "Britain isn't isn't in a good place because of the referendum. I feel like we've had a lost 3 and a half years when we could have been focusing on jobs and change and growth.
Politics has become too like game of thrones"

"It's a bit shocking isn't it" says @JustineGreening that she was the first Education Secretary to have a comprehensive education.

"I don't know" who I'll vote for at the next election says @JustineGreening . I am a centre right politician that wanted to be (cue @WilliamJHague impression) "in Europe not run by Europe".

Boris Johnson goes down "not very well" on the doorstep in @JustineGreening 's constituency of Putney, she says. "There was some goodwill" because of the PM's time in government, but had a "deluge" of correspondence after the prorogation of parliament asking "what's going on?"

"I did think about" running for London Mayor says @JustineGreening .

On her fellow rebel, she says Rory Stewart has "been on his walks", but given his position on Brexit she thinks London might "tell him to keep on walking".

She's "sad but excited" to leave Parliament. Says its a "ballsy decision" to leave but wants to focus on inequality and change from outside

"I'm going to miss my friends, but most of all I'm going to miss sitting on the backbenches at PMQs with Tim Loughton eating Jelly Babies."

"I think I'm being prepared to confront" problems like inequality head on says @JustineGreening . She says she's "not being diverted by Brexit" but she won't be leaving frontline politics.

The only people likely to benefit from No Deal are those "betting on sterling in the markets" says @JustineGreening .

Labour have "maybe gone off on the wrong tangent" with their policy of abolishing private schools says @JustineGreening . A "broader strategy" is needed to deal with the private sector- they need to be opened up with bursaries and the like so connections are widely available.

"The language is deeply toxic and destabilising for people, and it does our country...no favours at all," says @JustineGreening

Boris Johnson's "language of surrender" is no way to debate, she says. Britain doesn't do "political religion...we're a measured country."

Pointing out that the other side has problems is no defence says @MattLavenderSky. "Constant whataboutery" is depressing, the panel agrees.

"A good democracy needs good information" says @JustineGreening

"Until we have regulated online political advertising I would ban it."

If the indicative vote process in parliament had continued, a Brexit deal to pass parliament might have been found says @JustineGreening .

When the article 50 vote was passed "parliament had a genuine intention of seeking to deliver on Brexit" says @JustineGreening

What followed was no plan ever properly emerging, she says. A 5, 10, 15 year plan was needed, and government "should have been candid" about that.

She says she said Brexit might take 2 years in Cabinet and was briefed against afterwards- there was "a real sensitivity about the issue" @JustineGreening

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