The PM steamrollered Andrew Marr in his interview today. Here are 16 Brexit questions that could skewer him if the tougher Andrew Neil ever gets his chance – although the BBC’s craven decision to let Johnson onto Marr without committing to Neil makes that less likely. (thread) 1. "You say it’s 'absolutely vital' for politicians to tell the truth. So why do you tell so many lies?"

Here is our guide to Johnson’s lies, deceits, broken promises, attempts to silence Parliament and more. infacts.org/seven-ways-bor…

Johnson told at least 5 Brexit lies in his Marr interview. Biggest is that he'll get Brexit done. No, he won't. Here's our rebuttal. (4 other lies and rebuttals follow in thread) 1/ infacts.org/johnsons-bigge… PM said there won't be checks on goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. There will. 2/ infacts.org/goods-from-gb-…

Another big Johnson lie. He says in his manifesto we won’t be a rule-taker, but has agreed the opposite in the draft deal he plans to nail down with the EU by end of next year. Both can't be correct. (thread) 1/ The manifesto is categorical: “There will be no political alignment with the EU” (See page 5). If that’s not supposed to mean no regulatory alignment, what on earth does it mean? 2/

Johnson’s biggest lie is that he’ll get Brexit done. Here are 8 reasons why voting for the Tories won’t put an end to Brexit. (thread) Johnson boasts about his “great new deal”. In fact, his Withdrawal Agreement is a “surrender deal” which gives the EU pretty much everything it wants. What’s more, it only covers our divorce. Talks on our future relationship will only start in earnest if and when we leave. 1/

Boris Johnson tells fibs. We’ve collated 11 of his favourites - and our rebuttals of them - so you can pounce on them as they drip from his lips. (thread) Johnson won’t “get Brexit done”
He has only done the divorce deal. Nailing down a trade agreement will take years. Day after day, year after year, we'll wake up to news about Brexit. The only way to stop this is to beat the Tories and stop Brexit.
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Johnson gets 2 facts wrong and scores own goal on Northern Ireland in a speech to local activists yesterday. Thread 1/ PM said: “There will not be tariffs or checks on goods coming from GB to NI that are not going on to Ireland.” But new Protocol makes clear that Northern Ireland will follow hundreds of EU rules to do with customs and movement of goods. (see Annex 2) 2/

Johnson gave 6 shifty answers to @SophyRidgeSky. As she rightly put it: "Why would anyone trust anything you say?" Here's a thread exposing the PM's latest catalogue of falsehoods 1/ @SophyRidgeSky Johnson said he’d done a “great new deal”. No he hasn’t. His divorce deal turns Northern Ireland into an EU colony and makes Great Britain poorer and less powerful than it would otherwise be. This is a rotten deal the country will regret for decades. 2/

Normally excellent @bbcnickrobinson misses 3 vital and obvious questions for @MattHancock on @BBCr4today - if BBC keeps doing this, Tories will get away with blue murder on Brexit this election - short thread 1/ @bbcnickrobinson @MattHancock @BBCr4today "How can Tories say they'll get healthy economy to fund NHS etc if they are dragging us out of a market responsible for half our trade?" (Not asked by @bbcnickrobinson ) 2/

We've been picking over Johnson's latest misleading statements. We've found 6 new porkies and 6 new fishy promises - from yesterday alone. Here's a thread exposing them. 1/ He said “there can be no regression” from the rights workers currently enjoy. Not true. WAB merely says government must tell MPs if workers are going to lose their rights. See Schedule 5A, Part 1, Clause (1)(b) 2/

In Johnson's desperation to sell his deal, he is peddling untruths and spraying around promises. Here's our analysis of the latest 1/ PM says his deal means no tariffs on goods going from GB to Northern Ireland. Not true. Article 5 of new protocol makes clear there are tariffs if goods are "at risk" of entering EU from NI - and the EU has a veto on deciding whether goods are at risk. 2/

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

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.

1/11 New facts which mean we need a #PeoplesVote

The Brexit talks are going badly because we need the EU more than it needs us. As a result, the government is making one climb-down after another.

infacts.org/11-key-facts-w… 2/11 The government has agreed to pay a divorce bill of at least £35 billion to leave the EU. That’s 100 times the £350 million a week extra for the NHS that the Leave campaign falsely promised.

1. Massive defeat over customs union is stuff of Theresa May's dreams. It gets her out of tight spot over Irish border and economy - if upheld by MPs. 2. Hardline Brexiters will, of course, go bananas. But what can they do if Parliament says stay in customs union? There's no point in kicking May out.

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…

1. Assad regime is monstrous

Use of chemical weapons abominable

and it's in UK interest to stand by its allies, America and France

But.... 2. Having waited a week since the chemical attack, why the rush?

Why didn't Theresa May wait to consult MPs?

Why not go last mile to see if diplomacy could achieve anything?

Statement from lawyer representing third whistleblower Mark Gettleston that there are "grounds to suspect overspending offences in the referendum" by Vote Leave fairvote.uk/2018/04/12/new… 2. Most damning evidence from Gettleston is this email invoicing @vote_leave for work done for the "BeLeave campaign concept and website". If BeLeave was independent, why was VoteLeave paying for its website? (tab 5) fairvote.uk/the-evidence/?…

1/ ok, from all articles i've read and videos watched over past few hours, here are what seem to be key allegations from Brexit whistleblower Shamir Sanni about how his side cheated during referendum 2/ when @vote_leave was about to bust spending limits, it funnelled £625k through a puppet operation called BeLeave, run by two 22-year-olds, in what looks like breach of electoral laws

1. David Davis is either ignorant about how Brexit negotiations work or prepared to inflict chaos on us. 2. Under article 50 there is no way to do a withdrawal deal with out the European Parliament giving its consent.

1/ What does May's meltdown mean for Brexit? Bottom line: bigger chance of stopping it. 2/ Three main scenarios: May quits now; she quits next year; she soldiers on post Brexit.