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Here's David Davis literally wincing when Steve Baker suggested the civil service might be trying to sabotage Brexit
Boy. What a week Steve Baker is having. He is now accused of misleading Parliament over allegedly using a false quote to back up his civil service conspiracy. uk.businessinsider.com/brexit-ministe…
So, Steve Baker has accused the civil service of trying to sabotage Brexit, attributed a false quote to Charles Grant, and mislead Parliament in the process. And it’s only Thursday.
Now Theresa May faces a choice between supporting a minister who has misled Parliament or sacking an ally of the party’s staunch Brexiteers. This does not have a happy ending.
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Former universities minister Sam Gyimah speaking about Brexit in central London: “Make no mistake, Britain is on the brink... We face the greatest constitutional and political crisis in peacetime. And the tragedy is we have done this to ourselves.”
People’s Vote supporter Gyimah says he didn’t want to resign as a minister but for MPs to continue enabling Brexit is a “dereliction of our duty as public servants”
Ex-Tory MP & party grandee Lord Patten of Barnes opens his speech with a studs up attack on Liam Fox. He says Fox’s recent remarks about anti-Brexit campaigners are “impertinent and offensive” and adds: “It’s a sad fact that disillusion and mendacity got us into this position.”
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For those of you who enjoyed today’s poll, I’m led to believe that another is coming this weekend. A huge one, 25,000 sample size. On Brexit.
Expect to see a massive opinion poll on Brexit in one of the Sunday papers. "It's one you're going to want to look out for," I've been told.
New YouGov poll of 25,000 people: Labour would suffer a worse election defeat than it did under Michael Foot if it enables Brexit. Labour support would plummet to 26% if Jeremy Corbyn tells his MPs to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the poll says.
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Discussed Brexit/no deal with half a dozen pharmaceutical/medical industry leaders this morning. Here are some concerns/causes for panic they raised...
1) Capacity: warehouses can stockpile *some* goods but others have short shelf lives; need personalised conditions, temperature control. Currently "there isn’t capacity in the system” to deliver such a big, complex array of stockpiling methods, life sciences industry leader said
2) Uncertainty: UK gov is identifying stockpiling sites in UK & EU but still hasn’t said exactly how much capacity is needed to stockpile necessary medical/pharma goods. “There isn’t much info coming out. The honest answer is we don’t know,” life sciences industry head admitted
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What the hell will it take to bring down the corrupt @Conservatives government?

Here's an evolving thread listing Tory atrocities (in no particular order).

#fbpe #waton #abtv #indyref2 #notinmynameTheresaMay
1) Tory sex papers... remember them?

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2) @DamianGreen wanking at work?

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Once again the @frontlineclub is packed with journalists, @Byline_Media folk, and TV cameras for the latest revelations in the Cambridge Analytica / Trump / Brexit saga from two whistleblowers.

Follow this thread for live-tweeting coverage, and forgive my typos...
... first thing to note is that security has been increased a level or two since last week’s gathering. Two checkpoints against the guest list, and a minder scanning the room.

We’re about to kick off...
... the focus of attention tonight is Shahmir Sanni, joined again by @chrisinsilico who was the focus last week. @carolecadwalla will be joining later when she’s filed at the @guardian
Chris is carrying a large ring binder of documents...
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1/ Trying to follow what's going on in 🇪🇺 & #Brexit news feels like a full time job. And yet even against that backdrop, today feels pretty extraordinary. Some of the news has particular impact on me personally.
2/ First of all, this morning the proposed legal text on Brexit transition was released. So much for things not changing in transition - the text as it currently stands means 🇬🇧 👨‍💻 living in 🇪🇺 can no longer vote in the 2019 EP elections.
3/ A pretty major change, right from March 2019. 💥 goes my chance to vote for @janalbrecht @terryreintke et al as I did in 2014. 😡
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Here is Jon, her voted leave but now has seen the lies of the #leave campaign become clear & is a #RemainerNow
Respect @jonnywoo34 -so many feel like you! Thanks for speaking out & keep doing so!
Let’s hope MPs have courage to put country before party & start opposing #brexit
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Top work @jonnywoo34 keep speaking out, your courage will encourage overs!
I urge people to read this great thread from #remainernow Jon (for more see ⬆️). In it he explains his reasons for voting leave & what he has realised since.
Thanks for taking the time to do this @jonnywoo34 hopefully it can encourage others!
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#Brexit as a concept is increasingly drifting from having anything whatsoever to do with the mechanics of leaving the EU. It is now primarily a culture war and both sides will totally ignore the details except for when they are temporarily convenient.
The consequence of this is that our future relationship with the EU will be just as readily ignored as our activities as a member. They said Brexit would make us isolated, self absorbed and insular but it seems that was always the case and there are no signs of that changing.
As ever the details will be delegated to officials and civil servants while our establishment politics drifts further into its cycle of decline, unable to usefully influence external events making us entirely passive and reactive to events rather than self-interestedly engaged.
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Having been accused of “No attempt at serious analysis” of David Davis’s speech yesterday, let’s do some then, shall we.

A little thread.

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The headline quote from the speech - trailed by the UK Government *before* it was delivered - was to not “putting politics above prosperity”.

To even choose such a line is odd. The UK Brexit referendum was a vote to do *precisely* that.

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Whether right to put politics above prosperity is every individual’s call to make, but it is pretty hard to say the economic case won the referendum.

But to make that the centre piece of a speech to an intelligent audience in Germany is embarrassing.

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