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Cabinet didn't know about Merkel call; Johnson didn't appear to know about Cummings’ epic text message thetimes.co.uk/article/2c831c…
Times reports 5 ministers & many Con MPs opposed to no-deal exit: happy to go along with it as a negotiating ploy but not an outcome
But EU leaders can read our media: they will know threat of no-deal exit is not credible unless Johnson has huge majority
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At Guildhall to hear infinitely wise ⁦@nickmacpherson2⁩ on a century of economic crises
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Interesting: @PaulGoodmanCH says Johnson should resign as PM to try to force election rather than ask for extension conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2…
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It's really important we document every lie that Boris Johnson tells and put it in 1 easy to read Twitter thread to reference them to anyone not paying attention.

#BorisJohnsonLies 👇
Johnson lied about Kippers and the EU in a TV debate.
Still no apology after he was corrected today.

Bendy bananas?

Boris Johnson made this up in his early days as a journalist in Brussels.

Then repeated the lie throughout the 2016 referendum campaign.
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Because writing this for @TheTimes (thetimes.co.uk/article/believ…) and going on @BBCBreakfast (& other outlets) to defend our train system didn’t do enough to my notifications, here’s a short thread about #railfares
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Preparations appear to be underway for a pro-#Assad offensive on #Idlib.

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Jim Pickard
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am told cabinet ministers at Chequers were presented with three alternatives to May’s favoured “turd way”, all toxic:

1) EEA-plus: intolerable for Eurosceptics

2) No deal: intolerable for Hammond, Clark etc

3) Barnier proposal with border in Irish Sea: DUP would explode
analogy: displaying three alternative political dog turds before serving up political dog food
this isn’t the most pleasant metaphor, sincere apologies etc
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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
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