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14 Nov, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Worth reading Charles Moore - one former @BorisJohnson boss who is still loyal to him, but without being unaware of his failings. Full of personal and political insights...starting with why he needed #cummings to counteracted the prevarication... 1/

telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/1…
..for which “two columns” Johnson is famous and which - if one set of briefings today are correct - ultimately drove Cumming’s and co to distraction/despair. But on that, Moore says, Johnson often uses ambiguity as a shield. /2
Moore had always been alive to Johnson failings, in one piece about a Boris Brexit essay dismissing the “Borisian tosh” - but always aware of his powers to persuade and carry the #brexit charabanc forward. Now he sees others losing faith.../3
But on a clean-break #Brexit Moore sees Johnson ploughing on (and fwiw I have heard same) which is why David Frost and Cummings’s #brexit eyes and ears Oliver Lewis are staying. /4
But what follows @BorisJohnson will now face without #cummings to prick him into decisions; screw courage to the sticking plate...and in the worst case, Moore can see that could all not go well ENDS

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The #Brexit talks enter yet another weekend with no obvious signs of progress in sight - what's going on? Will the #Cummings departure lead to the 'cave in' many are assuming?

Quick pre-weekend thread /1
First the talks. Summed up by convos with two sources from this week.

EU side: "UK not moving where it should if it wants a deal ...

UK side: "They just want us to do all the moving..."

We are stuck on a philosophical/substantive divide /2
The EU side says that it HAS move, a long way, and not just on 'dynamic alignment' on State Aid and ECJ oversight - but that movement is still off the baseline set in the Political Declaration of October 2019, which talked about "robust" guarantees on free/fair competition /3
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11 Nov
NEW:🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🚛🚛🚚🚚🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨

There are 35 days to go until new #brexit border comes into force ...and the Dept of Transport hasn’t even got a “hauliers handbook” ready. My latest via @FT This one a real head scratcher. 1/thread
on.ft.com/36nSx6g
@FT It's pretty remarkable story, but as we know 10,000 trucks a day go over 'short strait' and 80 per cent of them are foreign - and as of Jan 1 that free-flowing system is going to be fetterd by full customs control, with huge new burdens for drivers. So a handbook be handy! /2
@FT This is doubly true of THIS government since it elected not to seek a waiver on safety and security declarations - it's choice - but that's burden that falls on the hauliers particularly. That's been knowns since January. Enough time to write the book, you'd think.../3
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9 Nov
Important move by DUP and Sinn Fein leaders in NI demand pragmatism from EU Commission over NI protocol...fearing new Irish Sea border will drive up prices/cut choice (it will) but can a reasonable balance be found? @MichaelAodhan @ManufacturingNI et al. via @tconnellyRTE 1/
@MichaelAodhan @ManufacturingNI @tconnellyRTE Recall this leaked @hmtreasury assessment of the costs of the Protocol for NI consumers.../2

@MichaelAodhan @ManufacturingNI @tconnellyRTE @hmtreasury The government is spending £200m on a 'trader support scheme' to help companies sending goods from GB to NIreland, but even so, unless derogations are given (proportionate to actual risk to Single Market) there is a risk that NI moves to reject deal the deal (as it can) /3
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6 Nov
🚨🚨🇪🇺🇬🇧🚚🚛🚇🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨🚨NEW. Unvarnished ⁦@NAOorguk⁩ report highlighting govt failure to prepare for post-Brexit borders - warns “widespread disruption” likely. My latest via @FT. Stay with me.../1
on.ft.com/2TXRqEl
@NAOorguk @FT You can read the 85-page public spending watchdog's whole report here, but it warns of

- insufficient customs brokers,
- unprepared border sites
- and a failure to build enough capacity in new customs software.

...and that this was forseeable. /2

nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
@NAOorguk @FT Remarkably it says that even by July 1 2021, the govt Border Delivery Groups finds "high risk" not all infrastructure will be ready...even at the end of UK's unilateral 'transition' period, which itself creates under-discussed second cliff edge. /3
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3 Nov
NEW - @IPPR calculates nearly *two-thirds* of the EU citizens currently employed in the UK (1.3m out of a total of 2.1m) would not have qualified for a skilled worker visa under Britain’s new points-based regime - via @ft Delphine Strauss and me /1

on.ft.com/3281jnD
@IPPR @FT The IPPR suggests UK Gov drops salary threshold to living wage and extend list of occupations facing shortages to include jobs at all skills levels. /2
@IPPR @FT Warns of a staffing crisis in social care would worsen and says sectors leading recovery from the coronavirus crisis (eg. construction, manufacturing and logistics) would struggle to recruit. /3
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Remember that £50m grant scheme to help create “new” customs agents? Turns out the £15k grants are often subsidising poaching agents from one company to the other... My latest via @FT
on.ft.com/3ouAAeg
@FT How is this possible? Well, because under the terms of the scheme, you only have to show that you are increasing the capacity of YOUR business to do customs forms - not the industry as a whole /2

gov.uk/guidance/grant…
@FT So that means that if you hire someone already working in customs from a rival company (and there's a limited pool of talent) then that hire qualifies for the £15k grant - £3k for recruitment and up to £12k for salary. The result? Poaching. /3
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