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Nigel Farage final EP presser: "It was the platform of being an MEP that meant within weeks I was invited to speak at the Oxford Union, that meant I was first invited onto Question Time."

Here is a 2016 piece about how the European parliament made Ukip
theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
Nigel Farage also spoke about the importance of his front-row seat in EP hemicycle, next to José Manuel Barroso and Jean-Claude Juncker.
"In terms of choreography it was magnificent. I will miss being the pantomime villain."
He also referred to the importance of EP funds that enabled Ukip to send leaflets against the Lisbon treaty to households in Ireland, as well as importance of YouTube.
Nigel Farage bullish about future for his party. "If they [Conservative gov] drop the ball again I am going to make sure I am there to catch it".

But Boris Johnson has stolen his agenda and put it on a tea-towel. Access to EU funds & platform disappears.
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David Frost's speech: "we are clear that we want the Canada-free trade agreement type relationship, which the EU has so often said is on offer."

But there is a problem with Canada (in a Brexit sense). The EU isn’t really offering it and the UK isn’t really asking for it.
2. DF is right. The EU started it, in 2017 Michel Barnier first revealed his steps slide with Canada as the outcome of the UK’s red lines. But like it or not, EU thinking has evolved.
3. The EU is now offering a trade deal that goes beyond Canada. Instead of Canadian-style elimination of 99% of tariff lines, the EU is offering zero tariffs + zero quotas for zero dumping. i.e. level playing field.
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Ivan Rogers has been talking about what happens after 31 January 2020.

‘Not a great deal will happen in the next few months, heading for the rocks by the summer and towards a major crisis in autumn 2020.’

Some key points from his @ForumEurope interview with @duncanrobinson
2. “London is going to be less passive under Johnson than it was under May: it will compete more on the communications strategy and it will be more belligerent. There is obviously a risk that the reaction here will be more belligerence and we are in a spiral of decline.”
3. IR thinks EU underpricing no-deal, by assuming trade talks Oct 20 will repeat Irish protocol Oct 19 script. i.e "‘All we need to do is to confront him with the realities of a thin, quick and dirty zero for zero, plus level playing field deal' . That is "a dangerous reading".
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NEW Brexit slide: This is how the EU wants to structure the EU-UK post-Brexit deal: two bases (economic, security), one governance arrangement, one level-playing field.

We could call it the house at the end of the Barnier staircase.
2. Slide was shown to EU27 diplomats on Friday PM, their wrap-up seminar after Brexit teach-in by Michel Barnier's team.

The slides repeat the EU's now well-known principles…. EU27 unity/ no non member can have the same benefits as a member etc.
3....and all negotiations through Michel Barnier i.e. not via member states.
There has been a fair amount of turnover in EU diplomatic Brexit circles and these seminars have been about keeping the 27 together ahead of the next phase.
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