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Hearing that @BorisJohnson to revive @theresa_may safeguards on workers’ rights and environment, agreed with Labour in her abortive cross-party talks, in final push to woo Labour MPs. Could provide cover for some to back Boris 1/3
This pledge is more meaty than his earlier words - I suspect separate legislation. But Labour leadership will warn pledges worthless bc these issues taken out of legally-binding WA & put into political declaration. Clever at one level bc Tories can say Labour frontbench 2/3
supported package earlier this year 3/3
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Mujtaba Rahman
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As we argued, @BorisJohnson announced Govt will bring in short Bill tomorrow for 12 December election. After he failed to win 434 votes needed for election under Fixed-term Parliaments Act - only 299 votes for, with 70 against 1/3
Lib Dems & SNP, who want 9 Dec election, will now negotiate over precise date. Want assurance Boris will not bring back his Brexit deal to Parliament before election . Still a live debate about that in Tory land 2/3
.@jeremycorbyn appeared to be moving towards backing Dec election; said will look & scrutinise election Bill. Still several hurdles to jump, including risk of amendments. But big step towards Dec election 3/3
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Mujtaba Rahman
@Mij_Europe
What's our latest view on #Brexit? Short thread. Odds of pre-Brexit, pre-Xmas election are rising. @jeremycorbyn will meet his Shadow Cabinet before this afternoon’s vote to consider a last-minute change of heart, to avoid being “the last man standing” out against an election 1/
If Labour blocks today’s move, think @BorisJohnson will likely adopt a plan similar to Saturday's Lib Dem-SNP initiative: to claim ownership & change proposed date slightly, rather than vote for plan advanced by opposition parties. Lib Dems & SNP could live with this 2/
This is because both Lib Dems & SNP see advantages in election being held before #Brexit. Unclear what Lib Dems would offer voters in election held after UK leaves EU 3/
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Mujtaba Rahman
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I'd be surprised if Tories don't ultimately support LibDem/SNP move. Polling looks good for @BorisJohnson - party & personal. Pre Brexit election is favoured by Johnson's aides. Will allow Tories to run on a "We'll finish the job" platform; mix in some "people ve parliament" 1/3
While picking off Labour leave seats in the North & Midlands & keeping soft Tory votes in the South (as BJ will run on a deal platform). Yes, there's risk of amendments. But macro arguments for Tories to support LibDem/SNP coalition on this much stronger 2/3
Puts @jeremycorbyn in a real bind; personally favours an early vote but won't be able to deliver (at least 100) his MPs. Labour justification is cliff edge on Jan 31 or Dec 2020 but real reason is party & personal approval polling looks abysmal for Corbyn 3/3
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John Rentoul
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Cross-party talks unlikely to succeed, so only way we'll leave EU is if EU leaders force us to: @JGForsyth spectator.co.uk/2019/05/can-ma…
That is also unlikely (@CER_Grant agrees with me); they don't want to risk a no-deal exit, or, indeed, to force us out at all
So I think most likely outcome is a further extension, which is why I think Brexit is probably dead
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Andrew Lewin
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To #Labour voters who back a #PeoplesVote and are campaigning to #Remain in the EU, please ignore this angry article. It does not speak for the majority.
The worst thing Labour supporters like Owen can do at the #EUElections2019 is lecture and patronise Remain voters.
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 Instead, let's be honest about the progress made in moving #Labour policy on #Brexit forward, while recognising we are not where we need to be.
The good news:
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#Remain campaigners have every reason to be frustrated. But instead of attacking them (as Owen does), we need to convince them to stick with Labour
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Faisal Islam
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PM now making statement mandated by one of the many losses to a Dominic Grieve mandate...
Starts describing the meetings cross party says she regrets Corbyn refusing to meet.
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Accepting a second referendum will damage the union, damage social cohesion etc she tells Commons.
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Labour NEW

Choose your own own brexit, any brexit, within reason, Labour MPs could be told
Remember that Lab conf motion: “If we cannot get a general election Lab must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote.”

Moment where policy evolves is coming soon (tho not tonight)

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Lab brexit subcommittee has been meeting in recent days to decide what to.

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Pressure from 2nd ref Lab MPs growing to endorse People’s Vote
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Which party has the oldest average age of MPs? THREAD
First off, we must thank-you all. We launched a poll on Monday expecting maybe 500 responses maximum. Instead we had a whopping three-thousand-two-hundred-and-thirty votes on our Twitter poll.

That’s ridiculous.
We asked you which party you thought had the oldest average age of MPs.

Most of you, 66%, thought it was the @Conservatives, then the @LibDems (15%), then @UKLabour (14%), with the @theSNP coming in last with (5%).

I bet the SNP are feeling fairly youthful right about now.
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The noises coming out of #Labour on racism towards Jews (let us call it that) are increasingly hollow.
Let's not even talk about the 1000s of oddballs in & around Labour, who rant on about "Zionists", etc like UKIPers talk about "immigrants", but we know where both are pointing.

One is profiled here in detailed (& mostly ignored by Labour "radicals")

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I asked this question ages ago, with no satisfactory answer:

Labour members, do you like antisemitism or Holocaust denial? Can you spot it?
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