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6 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
New: Lord Frost calls for `common-sense' and an end to EU `legal purism' over the NI protocol, ahead of a crunch meeting this week... 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Frost has written an op-ed for the FT, which includes a surprisingly chunky section of concession about the negative impact Brexit has had on Northern Ireland 2/ ft.com/content/eb35a1…
What does the UK want? `Pragmatic solutions', 'flexibility' from the EU side. In Brussels, this is seen as the UK not wanting to be held to the letter of the international treaty they signed when they left the EU.. 3/
EU leaders continue to state the line that the problem is not the Protocol, but the very situation of Brexit itself which is creating issues.. 4/
Next thing to watch for is the first meeting of the UK-EU Partnership Council this week, where Northern Ireland will be top of the agenda. Brexit never dies... ends/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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9 May
‘We don’t want to start a war with the French’ - a feature on my home isle of Jersey, the latest Brexit battleground after an extraordinary week 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ @Newsbaum_ @ratcliffephoto
Snuck in Jersey Royals, Jersey cows, Jerriais, the Nazi occupation, the 1781 Battle of Jersey, the capture of the Minquiers but alas no Bergerac 🇯🇪 2/ Image
Bottom line is Jersey feels caught in a Brexit storm not of its own creating. And a dispute between two NATO allies escalated faster than expected, with little political incentive for either the U.K. or France to back down 3/
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7 May
Johnson's Tories win a historic by-election victory in Hartlepool, hoovering up pro-Brexit support 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
It's a crushing victory for the Tories, picking up 15,529 votes compared to 8,589 for Labour. A new brick in the Tory wall 2/
This is the chart that hurt Labour. Much of the Brexit Party support of 2019 re-distributed to the Conservatives 3/
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6 May
The best bit about the Jersey fishing protests is how the French boats have lined up nicely just outside this blue circle... 1/
This is Elizabeth Castle, defending Jersey from foreign invaders since the late 1590s. Once again, it keeps a French flotilla at bay... 2/
It's also a funny reminder that this plot of land is indeed British. Full marks if you can pronounce all of these correctly 3/
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1 May
This week I was in Hartlepool and here's what I learnt about British politics in a Brexit heartland 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Hartlepool is among the most deprived parts of the U.K, with the second-highest unemployment rate. Its manufacturing and steel industries fell away in the 70s and 80s, and the area declined badly 2/
The town voted overwhelmingly for Brexit (~70%), seen by many as a cry for change after years of neglect. And it’s that Brexit support which gives the Tories a very good chance of winning the seat, after half-a-century of Labour wins 3/
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9 Apr
We're approaching 100 days of Brexit - so how have the so-called `Project Fear' predictions played out? Here's a breakdown 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In 2016, the Treasury said the short-term impact of voting for Brexit and triggering Article 50 would cause an immediate recession, a plunge in house prices, a spike in unemployment and knock 3.6% off GDP within 2 years 2/ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
This prediction was well overblown. Triggering Article 50 was delayed to March 2017, and GDP, employment levels and house prices had all improved 2 years on from the referendum 3/
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25 Mar
This week in life beyond @Brexit...

A fierce row over vaccine supplies, progress for the City and new data showing the damage to UK-EU trade

Here's Bloomberg's Beyond Brexit newsletter 1/

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EU leaders are meeting at a summit today to discuss a controversial proposal that would allow it to block vaccine exports from companies that haven't met their commitments to the bloc 2/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
There was a slight easing of diplomatic tensions with the UK earlier in the week, but discussions are ongoing on supplies and we wait for a resolution (it's a bit like the Brexit negotiations all over again...) 3/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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