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EXCLUSIVE: A senior Boris Johnson aide has said the UK will forge a “special relationship” with Viktor Orban's govt in Hungary after Brexit

Video and quotes from Tim Montgomerie's incendiary speech at a right-wing think tank in Budapest last month here >

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Here is Johnson aide Tim Montgomerie last month on how he wants the PM to have a “special relationship” with Orban’s Hungary after the UK leaves the EU

These remarks were not signed off by the PM or No10

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💥People in government furious with Tim Montgomerie tonight

A source says he has not yet returned to No10 since the election and it is still to be decided whether he will continue in his job 💥

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Further incendiary comments from Tim Montgomerie speaking at the Danube Institute on December 17

— repeatedly compared "Boris and Viktor"
— said Johnson's Tories now see Britons "as the priority rather than perhaps an immigrant from abroad"

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🚨 NEW: Boris Johnson aide Tim Montgomerie says the PM will strike a trade deal with the EU this year that keeps the UK closely aligned to Brussels regulations

He says Johnson will "disappoint" Euroscpetics

This is NOT the No10 line

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A bit more about the Danube Institute where Tim Montgomerie was speaking

— president is an Orban biographer who was given Hungarian Order of Merit last year
— board includes a Fidesz politician and a Polish politician who said homophobia is "fictitious"

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Full video and quotes from No10 aide (though possibly not for long) Tim Montgomerie on a "special relationship" with Orban, the "limits of liberalism", plus Brexit here... buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ti…
💥💥NEW: Govt spokesperson throws Tim Montgomerie under a bus

“All special advisers are expected to comply with the special adviser code. Tim Montgomerie has not currently returned to his position"

(code says SpAds can't make controversial speeches)

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NEW: More than a third of Conservative voters admit they have a negative view of Muslims, according to a new ICM poll that lays bare the scale of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in Britain

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ICM surveyed 2,011 voters about their views on Muslims and Jews in the UK last week

The poll compares the answers of people who said they voted Conservative and Labour at the 2017 election with the public as a whole

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62% of Tory voters said they agreed with the statement that Islam threatens the British way of life

Compares with 45% of the general public and 35% of Labour voters

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BREAKING: The Conservative Party is threatening to review Channel 4’s public service broadcasting obligations after it replaced Boris Johnson with an ice sculpture at tonight's debate

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Conservative source: “If we are re-elected we will have to review Channel 4’s Public Services Broadcasting obligations."

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Conservative source continued: “Broadcasting organisations are rightly held to a higher standard — and particularly Channel 4 which has a special role enshrined in legislation."

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Alex Wickham
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UK asked US if climate change commitment could be included

US effectively responded that it cannot be part of any deal
"Action item" agreed following one UK-US meeting: "US to share their public lines on chlorine-washed chicken to help inform the media narrative around the issue"
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Senior Labour figure tells me: don’t assume this election is definitely on. Big push by some Labour whips for party to vote against programme motion, hoping that Boris Johnson would pull the bill at that point
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Matthew Goodwin
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New.

ComRes poll of 20,000 people suggests that 54% of Brits favour honouring the 2016 referendum result

When 'don't knows' are excluded 54% back Leave options, 46% Remain

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Taking a step back at the moment, after today it is hard to see how Boris Johnson can still legitimately claim to have "just the right amount of time" to agree _and_ ratify a #Brexit deal before October 31.

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The first draft of the original Withdrawal Agreement was published on 28 February 2018.

The draft was finalised on 24 November 2018, after month of careful negotiations on the text.

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Karol Cummins
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‼️Boris Johnson is Britain's Donald Trump

– Complete with Breitbart's Bannon and Russia Cover-Up

BORIS JOHNSON
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#Brexit #VoteLeave #BorisJohnson

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Boris Johnson is/was advised by Steve BANNON – Trump’s campaign manager & VP of the notorious, now-shuttered electioneering firm Cambridge Analytica, which he co-founded in 2014 w/ hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who also backed the Breitbart sites.
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📌Johnson and Bannon became friends when Johnson was still Foreign Secretary and Bannon was still in the White House in early 2017.

📌They have been in contact ever since and the fruits of this friendship have been evident for some time

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‼️CEO VoteLeave Mathew Elliott

In 2004, Elliott had founded the TaxPayers’ Alliance, a rightwing pressure group advocating low taxes and minimal gov’t, & rose to win one of the most coveted and responsible jobs of 2016: chief executive of Vote Leave.
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