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Here is the Withdrawal Agreement Bill... publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…
remember EU Withdrawal Act 2018 (once called the Great Repeal Bill) - repealing European Communities Act In first line...

EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill 2019 first measure is to amend first line of EU Withdrawal Act 2018 and temporarily unrepeal the repeal for implementation ...
Last I checked, Bill Cash was not best pleased with the temporary unrepeal of the repeal - it is because EU law will still in implementation period require a conduit, because it will still apply, and there it is. Not sure why it’s called implementation any more...
Also why is it still called “implementation”? Originally for 2 years or so, and it’s worth thinking about this, it had been claimed this period would “implement” the future relationship that would have been negotiated by Mar 2019. It is now going to be period of negotiating that.
Commons will have to approve any extension to the implementation period (1 or 2 years) agreed by minister at the “Joint Committee” of UK and EU ministers overseeing the Withdrawal Agreement...
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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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NEW:

Internal Brexit negotiations memo presented to Whitehall “Economic Partnership Steering Group” last week shows how negotiators removed the word “adequate” from description of employment, environmental level playing field standards enforcement in Political Declaration /1
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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Joe Marshall
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So the WAB is published publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…

Twitter will be awash with analysis, but I'm going to stick to pointing out some of the key bits for now.
First, the bill saves the effect of parts of the European Communities Act for the length of the implementation period. The ECA is the key legal pipeline giving effect to EU law in the UK. It also saves other pieces of legislation needed to give effect to transition (clauses 1/2)
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Righti ho, just back from recording Remainiacs. And it seems that things are just where I left them.
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Good morning and welcome to another #Brexit thread

I'll be attempting to cover the events that are happening both in the Commons and in the Lords today so this is going to be a long one

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In the Lords the Opposition and Crossbench peers have laid a motion that will allow them the time to scrutinise the Bill that's about to be debated in the Commons. They want to debate this Bill on Friday at the latest. More on that later

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Right, so the Cooper amendment has been selected by the Speaker. A quick explainer thread as I think there are a few misconceptions flying around about what this amendment does and doesn't do. 1/19
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Second: the Cooper *amendment* which is being debated and voted on today does not, strictly speaking, "extend Article 50." We won't know after today whether Article 50 will be extended, or for how long. /3
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An attempt is being made by @SteveBakerHW to render illegal the EU’s Northern Ireland Brexit backstop, which would put NI in customs union and single market but not GB. He has put down amendments to Northern Ireland bill to that effect. This gives government and MPs a...
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