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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Don't think we should get too carried away about this being over, but message UK is sending is serious. Main thing I think EU have misjudged is sequencing on all this. UK has finally begun to move on state aid issues, instead of responding in kind EU has pushed for more 1/
Not entirely surprising. They are right further moves from UK are needed, but the way they are going about it is wrong way to achieve them. Putting all pressure on UK to move on all things difficult for it with EU leaving theirs until very end always makes it unbalanced. 2/
The EU should respond to UK moves by beginning to move on fish and opening up other areas for intense talks. If UK doesn't follow through with further moves, EU can always pull back later. 3/
Throughout both phases of negotiations EU has been obsessed with sequencing & not conceding until deal is basically done. But is a real risk that doesn't work this time as this Govt will go for no deal. Best way to achieve further UK moves they want is to move as well 4/ ENDS

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15 Oct
Building on the thread below, I've got a new piece out today on the interplay between Brexit & Covid-19, in particular in terms of practical impacts for business. A real challenge in many sectors, here's a thread setting out key points 1/ www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/gl…
As the chart below highlights, in many cases the two shocks will hit different sectors, spreading the breadth of economic challenges at the end of this year. But there are some sectors (mostly those with complex manufacturing supply chains) which will face a double hit 2/
We identify three themes where there are likely to be particular interplays between Brexit & Covid-19 for business - supply chains, people & finance/resources. 3/
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10 Sep
Have taken time to digest internal market bill & talk to various people on both sides. The text is worse than I expected & is/will be a clear breach of Protocol. Some analysis and thoughts on what happens next (spoiler - nothing particularly good)...1/
What surprised me about the clauses in the internal market bill is that not only do they seek to set out UK's interpretation of the Protocol (which might have been defensible) but they pre-emptively set out that UK will ignore any ruling on these issues. Impossible to defend 2/
Furthermore, if the UK wanted to argue that Article 6(1) of the Protocol gave it licence to do these things, it could have earlier on. Indeed I tweeted about this sort of approach in Oct 2019 but UK accepted exit declarations legally required 3/
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6 Sep
At some point both sides in the Brexit negotiations have to realise threatening no deal or warning of the consequences simply doesn't work & won't result in a shift of position on the other side. At no stage in these negotiations has it done so. A thread with some examples...1/
Johnson didn't shift on a more NI only Protocol last year due to fear of no deal. He shifted because it allowed for a more distant future relationship with EU than the backstop & because he needed a deal of some form to use in an election campaign focused on delivering Brexit 2/
Similarly the EU didn't shift on democratic consent in the Protocol last autumn due to fear the UK would leave without a deal (there was still no majority in Parliament for that) but because they actually thought Johnson may be able to deliver a deal through Parliament 3/
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28 Aug
This has been the case for some time & why I think focusing June high level conference on purely process issues was a mistake. But I fear the idea UK political level detached from negotiations may be wishful thinking...1/
Yes PM may be distracted & have a lot on his plate. But I wouldn't expect there to be huge gaps between what he & Frost think. Yes he can inject some more impetus & give some flexibility but on the detail he will likely listen closely to Frost's advice. 2/
It may be a case of hoping for a similar intervention from the PM as last year with the NI Protocol. But that was very different in terms of the political situation & the concessions were a direction he was more comfortable with (a harder Brexit essentially). 3/
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18 Jun
Interplay between economic shocks of Brexit & Covid-19 has been underdiscussed IMHO. Some talk from Government about how C-19 economic impact makes Brexit irrelevant. Superficially, sounds like it might be right but is it? Yes and no, though mostly no. Thread explaining why 1/
First the Government argues many sectors will have to transform from Covid-19 impact & also from Brexit, so why do it twice rather than all in one go. Sounds logical but...2/
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5 Jun
Unsurprisingly, little progress. Now at the stage where political intervention is needed. Barnier referencing political declaration is tiresome for a number of reasons. Not least because EU used to see it as entirely irrelevant & they are cherry picking it as well. Thread 1/
For much of past three years the EU side have seen the political declaration as a sop to the UK to try to help get the Withdrawal Agreement through Parliament. They have not only briefed this but made it clear to those of us in negotiations. Position now is quite hypocritical 2/
Barnier cites para 77 of the PD. But he always only mentions the first sentence not the second sentence, as highlighted below. This is surely just as equally important. 3/
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