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Appears to me that Government website has markedly toned down the plastering of the “Get Ready for Brexit” campaign on every page. Less emphasis on the date. On actual pages “UK could still leave on October 31st”.

Civil service quick off mark.
Can’t see this little “Brexit: 31 October” logo on the live advertising headers and footers on the Government website either... certainly now of limited prominence
£100m No Deal preparedness ad campaign: a tale in three parts...

September:
“The UK will leave the EU on 31 October 2019”

Early October:
“We’re due to leave on 31 October”

Today:
”We could still leave with No Deal on 31 October 2019”
The other very notable thing - is that the wording now clearly identifies that the preparation by Oct 31st is for possibility of No Deal... others identified that the original ads looked design to elide Brexit with No Deal...
This is what the Government said when the campaign moved in to its second phase at the beginning of the month...

Would be rather interested to see if these digital countdown ads are still running... I suspect not.
all appears to be about to ramp up again in some way judging from Gove comment in Commons: “we must maintain our public information campaign. From tomorrow, this will reflect the renewed urgency of preparation.” ...

Wording will be interesting... “could still leave 31/10” etC??
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Faisal Islam
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So no need for summit.
Last time to formalise the decision to change exit day as full EU28 Council and thus EU law, the Government had to accept it, via a letter from Ukrep.

Then was published in Official Journal - then becomes official new exit date.
“I am writing to confirm the agreement of the UK Government” was what Sir Tim Barrow had to write after the EU27 decision to accept extension No 1 in March, to formalise it as a full EU Council decision
“Flextension Rebellion”... - not authorising the sending of that letter - but its also against the law, so won’t happen.

As so much that was anonymously briefed, has not happened.
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Faisal Islam
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note from the cross Whitehall group planning future UK-EU trade deal, reviewing the renegotiation, first leaked to FT and seen by BBC say UK and EU “will include “appropriate” (rather than ‘adequate’) mechanisms for dispute settlement” of key level playing field commitments”.../2
consequence of that change, note says, is it means it’s now possible to argue it is “inappropriate for the future UK-EU relationship” that disputes about these commitments on employment, environment, tax, state aid and other standards should be subject to binding arbitration. /3
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Faisal Islam
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did a thread yesterday new export declarations required for NI trade with rest of UK across Irish Sea under Government’s Withdrawal Agreement - blog below...

Now it’s time to look at the much more clear cut issue of what frictions will occur GB to NI..

bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
One way to look at level of trade friction Government has agreed to within UK borders is: compare it to its existing No Deal plans.

Eg-what proportion of steps below from Govt general No deal food exporter flowchart, will apply GB-NI in a deal?
A: Most

Indeed some of the experts in the field have said to me “all” - but let’s park that for now.

First thing though - a proportion of these GB-NI checks/ paperwork do already occur as I found out in Larne last year: /2
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