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Times splash:

- Nicky Morgan joins exodus of One Nation Tories quitting party

- 17 centrists are going

- Iain Duncan Smith says: ‘We are the Brexit Party now’

- No 10 clear candidates must support getting Brexit done immediately after election

thetimes.co.uk/article/f85f7c…
Iain Duncan Smith:

‘We are the Brexit Party now because there is no other space for us to occupy

‘Every candidate standing will accept that our job and duty first and foremost is to deliver Brexit

‘After that all the other domestic policy issues are back in the mix’
Steve Baker says he hopes ERG’s ranks swell after Brexit:

‘I would very much hope the eurosceptic group and the ERG gets much bigger as we move forward.

‘Anyone getting elected for the first time will need to support getting Brexit done [otherwise] they are wasting their time’
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Labour frontbencher Marsha de Cordova has used Sadiq Khan instead of Jeremy Corbyn on her election leaflet

She's the candidate for Battersea, a Labour-Tory marginal where Corbyn launched his campaign on Thursday

Her leaflet has *no mention* of Corbyn

thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
Here's Sadiq Khan's endorsement for Marsha de Cordova:

'Marsha is the only credible option to keep fighting against Brexit in order to give the people of Battersea the final say on Brexit'

In a letter to constituents she says she will campaign 'night and day' to remain in EU
Tories believe a surge for the Lib Dems in Battersea could help them win seat back

It's a tight marginal - Labour held a 2,416 majority in 2017 - but Lib Dems have the potential to make significant gains

Hence Labour pitching it as ‘two horse race’ between Labour and Tories
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Exclusive:

Boris Johnson has abandoned the threat of a no-deal Brexit in the Conservative manifesto

He will instead pledge to get his deal over the line 'immediately' after the election

It's being framed to appeal to liberal voters

thetimes.co.uk/article/191e9d…
The Times can also disclose that Boris Johnson will *not* include a fiscal rule in the Tory manifesto

Comes as the Tories are poised to breach current fiscal rule *next week*

There's concern among some ministers about scale of public spending spree
The manifesto will be fully costed this time.

The Tories are keen to avoid the home goal of the 2017 manifesto which was uncosted, leaving opposition parties to fill in the blanks

It blunted attacks on Labour’s economic record
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Steven Swinford
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Exclusive

Nicky Morgan interview in The Times:

* Tories have taken no deal 'off the table'

* She has become inured to daily 'stream' of abuse and threats

* She says that being an MP has put 'enormous pressure' on her family

thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
Nicky Morgan on abuse:

'You turn on your emails in the morning and you get a stream of people telling you they’d like to see you dead or how useless they think you are

'The trouble is you become more and more used to it. You stop regarding it as being abusive and offensive'
Nicky Morgan's says social media companies are 'facilitating misogynistic abuse'

'Unfortunately what the platforms have allowed to happen is often anonymous misogynistic abuse [allowing] people just to say things that I suspect many people never say in normal life face to face'
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The most interesting part, for me, about this @ShippersUnbound splash is what it says about Team Boris, rather than where the EU/Irish are on #Brexit - it's same old assumption that Merkel or whover is coming to the rescue. Not sure they are. 1/Thread thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/s…
@ShippersUnbound As I think you'll see @simoncoveney say on @AndrewMarr9 #Marr this morning, the Irish are not for turning...and the Coveney Sunday Times piece is pretty clear on that.

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There an awful lot of extremely right wing Conservatives, with links to the libertarian think tanks based on Tufton Street, commenting on @BBCNews at the moment... #Brexit #ConfidenceVote
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Is the big #brexit climbdown beginning?

Are the Brexiteers about to decide to 'buy into' the idea that Mrs May can fix the Irish border with technology? That unicorns *do* exist?

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@tnewtondunn Wow. Amazing....suddenly, after all these months of negotiating it seems like Number 10 has put it's hand down the back of the sofa and found a 'fix' for the border issue that has bedevilled these talks for all this time.

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