Electability - Truss.
@trussliz is genuine, likeable, humble, and gets things done.
She will not be pilloried and pursued relentlessly by the press for who she is.
#LizForLeader
1/ Policy - Truss
@trussliz has the best plans to take our country forward with growth, dynamism and opportunity.
She will not tax, spend and run up debt choking growth like Gordon Brown with added privileged guilt.
#LizForLeader
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To attack domestic energy & food supply with extra arbitrary taxes would be the wrong move when underinvestment & supply constraints are the reason for inflation that is hurting people. Incentivise production & cut fuel duty, green levies & VAT that people experience in prices./ Delivering on the latter would support productive efficiency and activity (jobs) and medium term tax receipts. Further, taking the heat out of price rises would make @bankofengland less likely to squash the economy (jobs) by way of higher than sustainable interest rates. /

@BorisJohnson will deliver our exit from the EU on 31st October.
As the draft Withdrawal Agreement will not pass, the EU will need to decide whether it wants to accept Boris' offer of zero tariff trade to continue for the time being after Brexit on the 31st October. 1/7 This could apply while we negotiate a future agreement to cover more than just goods, such as Donald Tusk offered us in March 2018. An agreement on such a stopgap offer which would cover all goods would be entirely legal to be notified under the terms of Article 24 of GATT. 2/7

Liam Fox is right to say that Article 24 of GATT is what can release the requirement to treat all countries equally in trade policy, IF you have a free trade agreement in respect of a particular trading partner. BUT 1/9 The effective agreement can be very short form, even by exchange of letters or just joint notification to the WTO of the intention to keep "preferring" each other's trade on terms that give similar customs effect to those while in the EU for example, at least for goods. 2/9

The story of South Somerset’s local election was that @Conservatives voters are frustrated and did not turn out to their previous degree, allowing our opponents to gain by default. The solution to the frustration is to leave the EU properly, not pretend to. The proposed Withdrawal Agreement, in which the UK’s failure to leave properly and be independent would in fact be baked in, and to rely on Labour support for it on mistaken assessments of the relative effects of a customs union, would make the situation much worse.

What is described here is not what we proposed in #Malthouse, which does not rely on technology and instead uses existing customs simplifications and processes. news.sky.com/story/technolo… What the article describes is in fact akin to what would be needed for the Government's proposed Facilitated Customs Arrangement (or frictionless "Schrodinger's" customs union) which would need to track every product in the economy to detemine its origin & destination.

@JulianThomas19 @bbcpointswest Both Eire and UK are outside Schengen so Common Travel Area between them can be maintained with cooperation on external immigration data and “in market” type residence right checks such as occur now for eg jobs, property & some services. @JulianThomas19 @bbcpointswest For “3rd country” goods imported to EU, customs/origin declarations, transit documents & any regulatory statements can be lodged electronically & pre-cleared / post-cleared in premises, using procedures available already in EU’s Union customs code to avoid frontier checks.

Withdrawal Agreement signs UK up permanently to the blanket provisions of EU law preventing state aid, but not to Article 346 TFEU which exempts defence industry. So EU can choose to let our competitors subsidise their industry forever, and stop ours. @Leonardo_UK #Yeovil The PM has said she wants to agree Common Security and Defence Policy during the transition period but if we have first passed this Withdrawal Agreement (and its “backstop” that gives the EU a permanent veto against our leaving) then defence is yet another negotiating hostage.