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Feb 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Exclusive: Government is urgently writing to the EU about the shellfish ban amid panic about a market collapse

The letter, which could go as soon as today, comes as UK officials say they were misled by the EU

Brussels says law for 3rd countries is clear politicshome.com/news/article/e…
What started as an esoteric consequence of Brexit has quickly emerged into a big UK-EU row

Angry UK officials insist that the EU has misled them over 3rd country rules for live shellfish

Brussels says it's DEFRA's fault for misunderstanding the law
politicshome.com/news/article/e…
Eustice is expected to sign the letter but Gove has also been involved in talks, in a sign of how seriously government is taking the issue

MPs heard yesterday that shellfish markets could be lost "entirely and permanently" without political intervention

politicshome.com/news/article/e…
The escalation timeline:

2020: DEFRA tells shellfish industry that post-Brexit EU ban on some exports ends in April
January: EU tells industry DEFRA is wrong, ban is indefinite
This week: UK accuses EU of changing its mind & misapplying its own law
Today: Angry UK writing to EU
Kingfisher Seafoods Limited’s Director Rob Benson: “Our business relies almost entirely on sending live cockles & mussels for further processing in the EU... We were bracing ourselves to keep going until April but this news has all but destroyed any hope we had of the future.”
New: The European Commission received George Eustice's letter about UK shellfish exports this morning, sources on both sides say

The letter says the UK wants a meeting with the EU to discuss it, I'm told

It'll be published soon

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Oct 1
Ex-Tory Cabinet minister Robert Buckland has been to the US to campaign for Democrats

He says Trump "flies in the face" of the conservative values of Eisenhower & Reagan

A Harris win means "a stable and reliable ally... when it is needed desperately"
politicshome.com/news/article/f…
Writing for us after a trip across the Atlantic, @RobertBuckland says: "It is my hope that the US avoids the chaos and uncertainty of a second Trump term, and that we have a stable and reliable ally and world power at a time when it is needed desperately...
"... Like many Conservatives who traditionally identify with the GOP in the traditions of Eisenhower and Reagan for example, supporting Trump flies in the face of those beliefs.

"The fact that former VP Dick Cheney is voting Harris speaks volumes for the state of things."
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Dec 28, 2022
Exclusive: Nearly half of people (47%) want the UK to have a closer relationship with the EU, while 14% want to be further apart, according to a @Savanta_UK poll for @politicshome

It's the latest evidence of growing public support for a softer Brexit

politicshome.com/news/article/c…
The poll also found support for closer ties with the EU among 2016 Leave voters...

30% closer, 18% further away

"There's definitely a sense that the process has been bungled and that the benefits which Leavers were promised haven't really materialised" - Savanta's Chris Hopkins
Nearly a third of people believe Brexit is the *primary* reason for labour shortages in the UK, the @Savanta_UK / @politicshome poll found

Just over a third of Leave voters said the UK's EU exit was a reason for ongoing gaps in the workforce

politicshome.com/news/article/c…
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Oct 2, 2022
I’m kicking off my Tory conference at a @CapX / @CPSThinkTank fringe event titled: ‘Can the Tories win the next election?’. Polling guru @jamesjohnson252 says that in recent days “the title of this panel has become easier to answer.”
.@jamesjohnson252 says that up until the Truss/Kwarteng statement the Tories still had a decent shot of winning the next general election. But something “very big” and “drastic” has happened since then: the Tory party has rapidly lost its reputation for economic competence
.@jamesjohnson252 says “it’s very hard to see how” the Tories stay in power at the next general election
Read 11 tweets
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Jun 15, 2022
Spot the difference

Jonathan Gullis' original Facebook post about the ECHR (h/t @patrickkmaguire)

...and his edited post

He was told that the Good Friday Agreement requires ECHR participation, @politicshome understands

Gullis is Brandon Lewis' PPS

politicshome.com/news/article/j…
A source close to Gullis said: “The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and its interaction with the ECHR clearly has to be respected as it is integral to the peace and prosperity of Northern Ireland...
... However, it is also evident that the overall role of the European Courts in the UK needs further consideration in light of their interventions in the UK’s own border policy last night which Government believes is entirely legal and in line with its international obligations"
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Jun 15, 2022
Jonathan Jones QC, former head of the government legal department, writes for @TheHouseMag about the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"It is one of the most extraordinary pieces of legislation I have ever seen"

The legal position is "hopeless," he argues

politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
.@SirJJQC: "How can an agreement willingly entered into only in 2020, at what the PM described as a 'fantastic moment', be already proving so disastrous as to represent “grave peril” to the country?

"The government statement provides no evidence for such an extreme conclusion"
He continues: "The bill – assuming it is eventually passed – is likely to take many months to get through parliament.

"If the UK really did face imminent peril, you might think the government would need to deal with it more quickly than that"
Read 5 tweets
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Jun 12, 2022
Exclusive: Material leaked to @politicshome this weekend sets up an almighty row when the government publishes its Northern Ireland Protocol legislation, expected tomorrow...
Tory MPs who oppose government's Protocol plan have this weekend been sharing this briefing doc setting out why they intend to vote against it

It says the bill is "damaging to everything the UK and Conservatives stand for" & "breaks international law"

politicshome.com/news/article/g…
The briefing, which is being shared by Tory rebels ahead of the bill being published, adds:

"Protecting our precious Union means persuading the moderate centre ground. We are alienating them by pursuing a reckless Bill that is toxic to the very swing voters the Union depends on"
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