soy sauce was going to be more expensive because of Brexit but now it's exactly the same why aren't you more grateful
and now the experts (typical experts) are telling us that most of our soy sauce comes from the EU with which we may or may not have a trade deal, great thanks
so complicated, who knew
next we need to hear @tradegovuk on other fridge occasional favourites, where have we got to with tartare sauce

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29 Oct
Breaking:

The Labour Party has been served with an unlawful act notice after an investigation into antisemitism by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found it responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination.
From the @EHRC

The Party is responsible for three breaches of the Equality Act (2010) relating to:

- Political interference in antisemitism complaints.
- Failure to provide adequate training to those handling antisemitism complaints.
- Harassment
"The EHRC found evidence of political interference in the complaints process, with 23 instances of inappropriate involvement by the Leader of the Opposition’s Office (LOTO) and others in the 70 files looked at."
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20 Oct
Grant Shapps has threatened to seize control of Transport for London unless Sadiq Khan accepts package of measures inc higher council tax, pension reforms, larger congestion charge zone and higher fares in return for rescue funding
ft.com/content/fc7ad3… via @financialtimes
letters have leaked:

this month Shapps, transport secretary, wrote to Khan setting out a list of demands in return for any financial rescue package, according to a letter seen by @FT:

key is the threat to use new legal powers to “direct TFL” aka seize control of the authority
Shapps demanded:

- extra council tax supplementary payments from Londoners

- congestion charge to be 18 times larger (from north circular to south circular)

- fares to rise by more than RPI+1%

- pension reforms at TFL

- fewer fare concessions

- driverless trains sooner
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in case you thought the idea of building anti-migrant walls in the English Channel is either 1] trolling by Number 10 or 2] blue-sky thinking

I can reveal Home Office has launched a secret consultation with the maritime industry into how this might work:

ft.com/content/ac028f…
email from September 17 reveals Home Office wants to find solutions to “the small boats challenge”.

Joint Security and Resilience Centre (part of HO) is working with Border Force and Dan O’Mahoney, a former Royal Marine recently appointed "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander"
here are the relevant passages making clear that “marine fencing” and other technologies are being sought by Home Office to block asylum seekers in boats
Read 11 tweets
30 Sep
sadly this is not satire

ft.com/content/9baaf9… Image
A Whitehall source tells Playbook re the leaks:

“There is a rotten core of civil servants who have never gotten over Brexit, want revenge for the incompetent [Philip] Rutnam and fear the hard rain that is coming. They’re the enemy within and will be rooted out.”
Read 4 tweets
29 Sep
one of the maddest stories you’ll ever read on this website - via ⁦@GeorgeWParker⁩ ⁦@pmdfoster⁩ et al

ft.com/content/ff1dc1…
this is where Priti Patel wanted to process asylum applications
vaguely reminiscent of the French penal colonies in Papillon
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16 Sep
the Johnson plan has now alienated two former attorney-generals, several former prime ministers and ex Tory leaders, all opposition parties, the entire European Union and *potentially* the next US president
I forgot the head of the government’s legal service, the advocate general for Scotland, a load of Tory backbencher and (in private) plenty of ministers
but apart from that it’s been an overwhelming triumph
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