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Five Cabinet ministers are understood to be on a No 10 resignation watchlist if the party pushes for a no-deal Brexit

They are Nicky Morgan, Julian Smith, Robert Buckland, Matt Hancock and Geoffrey Cox

thetimes.co.uk/article/2c831c…
Ministers are in open revolt over Dom Cummings and his push for no-deal

One told The Times: 'Cabinet will set the strategy not unelected officials.

'If this is an attempt to do that then it will fail. We are not a Cabinet of sock puppets and nodding dogs’
Another Cabinet minister told The Times they would find it 'very, very hard' to stay in Government if it campaigned for no-deal at election

They said a 'very large number' of Tory MPs will also quit the party
Worryingly for ministers Boris Johnson yesterday failed to inform his Cabinet about his crunch call with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, just half an hour earlier

He instead alluded to it vaguely, saying that a 'moment of compression' on Brexit was coming
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Many Tories are not feeling particularly gung ho about this election

A Cabinet minister tells The Times that while they went into other elections thinking it was all going to be OK, this is the first time they genuinely don't know

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Boris Johnson last night told Tory MPs that it will be a 'tough' general election campaign

Tory MPs said that his tone was far from triumphalist - they're worried about a voter backlash & being hit by double whammy of the Lib Dems and Brexit Party
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.@oliver_wright spotted Tories spent £1,178 on Facebook this week targeting 200,000 Uxbridge voters with call to keep police station open
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Steven Swinford
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EXCLUSIVE:

Eight Cabinet ministers, chaired by Boris Johnson, met on Monday to discuss Tory manifesto:

* Tories planning big hike in police numbers, well beyond 20k pledge

* Internal polling shows they are ‘streets ahead’ of Labour on law and order

thetimes.co.uk/article/c07cf0…
Ministers increasingly confident they are ‘neutralising’ Labour on NHS and education

Internal polling shows Tories have taken narrow lead over Labour on the NHS - follows pledges on hospital building and funding

Boris Johnson visiting hospitals every week to hammer home message
BUT there are concerns in Cabinet about scale of Tory pledges on public spending and tax cuts

‘There was an acknowledgment that there needs to be trade-off between higher levels of public spending and lower taxation

‘We can’t have both. There has to be a balance’
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Steven Swinford
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The Government has published the legal position on its new deal as part of its bid to win over Eurosceptic MPs

It makes clear that the EU does not 'possess a veto over the right of members of the NI assembly to withhold consent to the continued applications of those provisions'
No 10 making crystal clear to backbenchers that this is not Theresa May's deal and the UK will not be trapped in backstop

'There are no grounds for supposing the EU would have any legal basis to assert A5 to 10 of the Protocol should continue to apply absent that consent'
Lastly the key bit: 'This has been endorsed by the Attorney General'

Geoffrey Cox is on board

BUT for some Spartans the exit mechanism is not the issue.

They are more worried about loss of sovereignty during transition & how we get out of it and onto a free trade agreement
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Exclusive: The government is facing an unprecedented backlash from five key industries over Boris Johnson's plans for post #Brexit trading arrangements

🚀 Aerospace
🚗 Automotive
🧪 Chemicals
🍲 Food and drink
💊 Pharmaceuticals

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Collectively, the sectors employ 1.1 million people, contributing £98bn to the UK economy each year

The group has sent a letter to the government highlighting its concerns

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The BBC's @faisalislam has seen extracts of the letter, which was sent this week to Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and the Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove

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#Brexit ALREADY costs UK £1bn pw as we Hit Holidays! @GoldmanSachs put that lower at £600m. but I'm looking at 2+% less GDP (than would have been); more Govt Debt (+interest); the growing impact of #Brexodus on jobs/taxtake; £devaln.&inflation creep, reducing Property values.1/20
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David Henig
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Boris Johnson is going to be an unproven (at best) Prime Minister facing an unprecedented challenge for the country.

His back benchers to be are getting ready... Exhibit A
Exhibit B, this is the current Chancellor, hence unprecedented... huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mps-comm…
Exhibit C, another current Cabinet Minister.

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Little expectation in EU today that the Withdrawal Agreement will pass. Of it does, EU leaders would be mightily relieved. UK would then have till 22 May to sort out political declaration .. which can still be negotiated. Not legally binding /1
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