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8 Feb, 4 tweets, 4 min read
🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🐚🦪🦪🐚🦪🐚🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨So...govt has to concede that most mussel, oyster, clam and cockles - bivalve molluscs - can’t now go to EU, “bringing an end to this traditional and valuable trade” - a move U.K. says is “unacceptable”, but admits can’t stop. /1

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It seems as if @DefraGovUK @MPGeorgeEustice has been advised it would be OK...but now EU has advised not. They are trying to fix with Shellfish Association of Great Britain @SAGB /2
@DefraGovUK @MPGeorgeEustice @SAGB The tone of this statement slightly reminds me of that letter that a slightly sheepish @DavidGHFrost wrote to the car makers admitting defeat on asking EU for cross-cumulating rules of origin so Japanese car parts. /3

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@DefraGovUK @MPGeorgeEustice @SAGB @DavidGHFrost There may well be more EGs of these - EU taking a hard 'third country' line that will make the govt look impotent, rather than 'in control'....but that will only poison the well, not - as some might hope - create a change of heart. ENDS

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10 Feb
NEW: 🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🧪🧑‍🔬⚗️🧪🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨the U.K. chemicals industry calls for common sense re-think of U.K. post-#brexit plan to build copycat EU REACH chemicals database at cost of £1bn - @GeorgeWParker @FinancialTimes scoop. Stay with me. /1

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@GeorgeWParker @FinancialTimes So what's all this about? Well, no sleeping at the back there, because chemicals are in everything - from paint to nail polish, cars to contact lenses - they are key part of manufacturing base, with highly mobile pan-EU supply chains. #Brexit is a bugger for them /2
@GeorgeWParker @FinancialTimes The problem is that as part of the 'sovereignty at all costs approach @DavidGHFrost the UK relationship ruled out close links with the EU chemicals agency ECHA in Helsinki which controls the EU REACH database - a store of all the info on all the chemicals on the market /3
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8 Feb
NEW: where @michaelgove warns the EU is in danger of putting its “integrationist theology” above the interests of the people of Northern Ireland - looks like tough discussion ahead this week. 1/
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Gove will meet @MarosSefcovic in London on Thursday to demand easements to NI Protocol and says “Progress has been made but we are very far from resolving those problems” /2
My colleague @Sam1Fleming gets a testy EU diplomat response: “It would already be a step forward if Britain put as much energy into the Implementation of the NI protocol as it puts into complaining about it.”/3
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6 Feb
🚨🇪🇺🇬🇧🤔🤔🤔🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨NEW: post #brexit immigration rules are shaping up to kill the au pair industry - on which 45,000 working families depend for affordable childcare. Seems mad. Stay with me. /1

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First, what is an 'au pair' - sometimes assumed to be childcare for posh folk - but actually its really a childcare solution for doctors, police, nurses, single parents who have jobs that need reliable, affordable, full-time childcare. The can't afford nannies at £2k/pcm /2
So they an 'au pair', which is a kind of cultural exchange. A young person (90%+ from EU/EEA) aged 18-26 comes to live in your house, they get contribution to English lessons, board and lodging and £100/week 'pocket money' in exchange for 25 hours childcare - it works /3
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5 Feb
So. This week's exam question: "Can the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol survive?"

There's an easy answer and a harder one - a short thread after a big week for NI & #Brexit and a potentially bigger one to come. /1

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The easy answer is that the Protocol has to survive - not least because there isn't any obvious alternative to it, and ultimately no appetite to find one in Brussels, London or Dublin. That doesn't mean it going to be easy now... /2
The Protocol - lest we forget, which the EU seemed to last Friday - is there to prevent a return to a hard border on the Island of Ireland, and if the first month of operation of the Irish Sea border shows, that border needs to be between GB & NI. /3
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5 Feb
Its a @FinancialTimes #Brexit Briefing exclusive - @Port_of_Dover has shared their January traffic figures...you can see truck throughput (both directions, combined) is returning to "normal" levels. BUT...there's a 'but' 1/
@FinancialTimes @Port_of_Dover What this doesn't show you is how many are running empty from GB-EU (so EU hauliers can avoid getting caught in customs foul ups) and what that is doing for freight rates, which anecdotally are rising fast. /2
@FinancialTimes @Port_of_Dover Normally an estimated 30% go back empty from UK to EU (trade imbalances) but French authorities estimate it at about 50% and but @RHARodMcKenzie estimates it could be 65% based on members information. /3
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5 Feb
It's OUT!! My weekly #Brexit Briefing for @FinancialTimes - first a look at the balance of creativity and certainty needed from UK's new state aid regime, with expert help from @GeorgePeretzQC @AlexanderPHRose @jamesrwebber - thorny but fascinating. /1

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@FinancialTimes @GeorgePeretzQC @AlexanderPHRose @jamesrwebber The exam question is set by @GeorgePeretzQC who sets out the spectrum of choice between EU's slow, formalistic State Aid regime - which requires pre-notification and has long infuriated UK ministers - and the "open sea" approach where only courts act as a check on subsidy /2
@FinancialTimes @GeorgePeretzQC @AlexanderPHRose @jamesrwebber Post #Brexit, as @jamesrwebber points out, we really don't need EU-style regime which was designed to create level playing field among 27 countries all with control over their own tax/economic policies...we can have a nimbler system better suited to the UK. But what system? /3
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