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Feb 12 5 tweets 2 min read
Theresa May’s Brexit deal looks better with each passing day @indypremium independent.co.uk/independentpre…
We could have had a Brexit deal that did less economic damage
Two puzzles for posterity
Of course if Lab had backed it, the Tory party would have split: May would have been a Ramsay MacDonald at head of govt relying on Lab
So there’s that advantage as well

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