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NEW: Internal attack document reveals Tory election strategists are urging candidates at risk of losing their seats over Brexit to say the Liberal Democrats “are not proud to be British”

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Tory attack document for candidates in LibDem marginals

"The Liberal Democrats are not proud to be British"

"The Liberal Democrats are out of touch with the British people"

They would "make our country more vulnerable to terrorist attacks"

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Here is the section of the Tory document accusing the Lib Dems of a lack of patriotism

@EdwardJDavey says it is "the politics of division and nationalism"

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Tories plotting aggressive strategy in LibDem-facing seats

Here's the bit of the Tory memo urging candidates to tell voters that the LibDems would leave Britain "more vulnerable to terrorist attacks"

"They want to let hate preachers off"

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Official Tory document also accuses the LibDems of being "pro-pimp" and alleges they've said prostitution should be suggested as a career to schoolchildren

(This claim refers to one local LibDem, not the central party or LibDem policy)

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Tories double down on their LibDem attack document

Conservative source insists it is accurate:
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Alex Wickham
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NEW: Boris Johnson's campaign fears an historic NHS winter crisis will dominate the December election

— Tory MPs warned it could be worst for decades
— concerns over Dispatches US trade deal story
— Hancock to meet Simon Stevens weekly during campaign

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Who is running the Tory election campaign?

“Isaac has full grip over the campaign. Dom is in No10 with the Vote Leave team. CCHQ staff are answering to CCHQ not Vote Leave,” a CCHQ insider said

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Two-pronged message you will hear on repeat over the next 43 days:

“Get Brexit done” so the govt can then focus on the things that really matter to voters, be that schools, policing, the NHS, housing, or other issues neglected by Westminster for years

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Alex Wickham
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LEAK: Report commissioned by People’s Vote last month urged it to replace key staff to end a “culture of mistrust” and “cronyism”

— “Repeat offenders” accused of being “continually disruptive”
— PV warned it had to sort bullying / harassment processes

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Astonishing 83-page independent report titled “Project Root” and marked “do not circulate"

— Damning of People's Vote management under McGrory / Baldwin
— Critical of governance structures under Rudd

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Independent report commissioned by People's Vote raised alarm over bullying and harassment processes

"Proper disciplinary processes should be established for inappropriate behaviour, bullying, harassment"

"Decisive action to deal with repeat offenders"

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Alex Wickham
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An ally of Roland Rudd hits back at briefings from the James McGrory / Tom Baldwin camp

They claim that Alastair Campbell had a meeting with Rudd last week in which Campbell urged Rudd not to sack Baldwin (his close friend for decades), but said he could get rid of McGrory 😬
Roland Rudd ally says he didn't address staff this morning because he found out Baldwin/McGrory had arranged for 20-30 people to walk out and film it on their phones

Source says Rudd knew he was being stitched up so avoided the meeting
Roland Rudd ally says journalists are being misled by "their mates" in Baldwin/McGrory faction

They say the vast majority of PV staff are on Open Britain contracts and do not support Baldwin/McGrory
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The @BorisJohnson #brexit renegotiation plan, as told to @ShippersUnbound

It seems as if the new negotiation will be the same as the last one: prefaced with undeliverable promises. /1
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Peter Foster
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A seriously blue sky #Brexit thought that I've been having lately.

If this happens, you read it here first :)

What if the Irish offered the UK a unilateral exit clause on the backstop?

Bear with me... 1/Thread
This seems nuts, I know, but imagine a world where we are right, deep in the endzone and it is clear that this is what gets the Withdrawal Agreement over the line.

By this point, the British parliament will have demonstrated it has no appetite or majority to crash out /2
And that would clearly be the heavy price of walking away from the backstop - which anyway cuts the old Dec 2020 'cliff-edge' pretty much in half.

Have look at the positive spin of the backstop from this weeks DUP reassurance paper. /3
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