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And another thing. With Labour blocking an election and Johnson shelving Brexit legislation, a Brexit extension to 31 January - the delay written into the Benn Act - will achieve precisely zilch. It guarantees the UK will request another extension at the end of January. So...
just possibly EU leaders will re-evaluate the delay they offer. It would now be rational for them to offer either a much longer extension - say till spring 2020 - to allow for an election or a referendum, or a much shorter one, to 15 Nov, to offer parliament a binary choice...
between the latest deal and no deal. Right now a delay till 31 January looks like guaranteed limbo. So maybe EU leaders will now think about playing it longer or shorter.
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