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1/ Brittany Kaiser (another Cambridge Analytica whistleblower) just speaking in front of parliamentary committee parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e5…
2/ three new chunks of evidence just published on DCMS committee website here
parliament.uk/business/commi…
3/ Kaiser has also provided copies of emails to the DCMS committee. These haven't yet been published - although it plans to do so.
4/ Here's a key chart in the pitch document Cambridge Analytica made to Leave.EU. Eldon Insurance (Go Skippy) is Arron @Arron_banks insurance company
5/ and here's stuff from a proposal from SCL/CA to GoSkippy (@Arron_banks insurance company)
6/ Brittany Kaiser says she thinks Steve Bannon introduce @Arron_banks to Cambridge Analytica
7/ Kaiser says Kogan's test wasn't only way Facebook was compromised. Talks about "sex compass" quiz. Here's her written testimony.
8/ Kaiser says AIQ was CA's "exclusive data engineering partner" but subsequently stopped working with it after relations got strained probably in late 2015
9/ or at least she thought AIQ and CA stopped working together - but in subsequent answer she's not so sure
10/ Kaiser says she believes some executives at CA engaged with @vote_leave after @LeaveEUOfficial didn't want to pay for CA's work for it
11/ when CA first talked to Leave.EU, it didn't have much data - so they looked at UKIP data on its members - and survey data. Used that to devise 5 personality types/
12/ One MP asks whether it was legal for UKIP's data to be transferred to @Leave.EU
13/ Kaiser also said @Arron_banks asked us to design a strategy to work on using @LeaveEUOfficial, UKIP and Eldon Insurance (Banks' insurance company) data
14/ she says although CA didn't do this work for @LeaveEUOfficial she believes "this wrk was carried out just not by CA"
15/ Kaiser highlights three possible legal breaches
- not reporting CA's work for @Leave.EU to Electoral Commission
- breaching data protection rules over Eldon/UKIP data
- sending data to be processed abroad by Banks' Big Data Dolphins company
16/ Kaiser says Banks bragged he copied CA's ideas and did it via Big Data Dolphins in Mississippi using help of Old Mississippi university
17/ graphic testimony by Kaiser of seeing 20+ people in Go Skippy (Eldon Insurance - Arron Banks' company) call centre calling customers/leads and asking them their attitudes about Brexit. I saw it "with my own eyes"
18/ Kaiser says CA was still using Facebook data in its modelling in March 2016 despite telling CA in Jan 2016 that it had deleted the data
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1/ PM's Brexit proposal will turn UK into a eunuch without even protecting 80% of our economy, services. And to get a deal, we'll have to make more concessions to EU. This is NOT a soft Brexit. It is a castration Brexit. We need a #PeoplesVote
2/ May doesn't just want to follow EU rules on goods. She wants to do same on competition policy - and is hinting she'll do same for environmental, social and consumer policy too. How is this taking back control? Vote Leave = LOSE control
3/ We'll pay "due regard" to the ECJ too. No harm in following EU rules or ECJ when we make the rules and have judge on the court. But doing so without a vote on rules or a judge turns us into a quasi-colony. #StopBrexit #PeoplesVote
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Absolutely bloody marvellous. Theresa May has caved on a meaningful vote. Fab day for democracy. Chance of #PeoplesVote has gone up. So has chance of stopping Brexit entirely.
My column gives more detail infacts.org/may-caves-on-m…
UPDATE. I have edited the column to inject more notes of caution. Still think this is good news. But more work will be needed before government concessions can be banked.
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1/7 Customs partnership isn’t enough to avoid border controls - we'll also need to copy EU rules on goods too infacts.org/7-home-truths-…
2/7 …but "Max Fac" isn’t even part of the solution. Embrace that and we undermine peace in Ireland and gum up our industries’ supply lines too.
3/7 Customs partnership doesn’t help services... To achieve that, we’d probably need to follow the EU’s rules on services too.
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Another ticking No Deal time bomb -Lords Grand committee supposed to take 4 hours to deal with 10 Brexit Statutory instruments - Got through just 3 on stem cells, embryology etc, all referred up to full House of Lords.

Hundreds more required to be passed to correct statute book
Some Govt sources suggesting there is a filibustering game going on here - Lords strenuously deny - todays committee included Lord Winston, Warner, Foulkes, Adonis etc, say it is scrutiny legislated for in Withdrawal Bill.

In any event, cant see how they get through all the SIs
Here’s the committee taking on the minister who was trying to get 10 SIs through today... parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8a…
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So, the big #BrexitDebate is happening on BBC, or perhaps ITV, or maybe not at all. All clear as mud. What's crystal clear is we won't get a moment to rival Yvette Cooper's masterful dismantling of Theresa May's Brexit plan in today's Liaison Committee.
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Here's the question I would love to see Theresa May pushed to give a PROPER answer to:

"Comparing like for like, *not* compared to today's figures, will your Brexit agreement leave the UK better off or worse off in 15 years time than it would otherwise be in 15 years time?"
It's a mouthful and could I'm sure be improved upon, but both the preamble and the repetition feel necessary because Theresa May keeps avoiding the issue by pretending people are asking her similar questions vs "today".

Of course the UK will be better off in 15 years time in raw
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1/ Livestreamtweet: Arron Banks & Andy Wigmore, Nigel Farage’s LeaveEU financier and comms dir, appear before House of Commons select committee to discuss some light treason. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/46…
2/ Wigmore proposes that @DamianCollins recuse since he accepted tix to a Chelsea football match. They laugh it off as a joke, given no inducements, offers, honey pots.
3/ Bannon, Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica, Robert Mercer intros and contacts are right up front. Discussed the CA pitch and their intent to use it, had they been selected as the official referendum campaign by Election Commission. They weren’t so insist they didn’t become CA client.
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It's fun times in Brexit land once again - David Davis in front of Lords EU committee parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/5f…
DD says outstanding areas are N.Ireland, some remaining separation issues and governance of the agreement (ie is the ECJ involved).
On N.Ireland: We stand by joint report but don't agree with their interpretation of that - "a division of the kingdom". This is a nonsense and disingenuous analysis of their position but whatever.
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Up next: Dr Kogan’s @CommonsCMS hearing. #CambridgeAnalytica
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Livestream of Dr Kogan hearing has begun. #CambridgeAnalytica parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/db…
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