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Executive Editor, Politics at the New Statesman. Ex-Bloomberg, Telegraph. Wrote a couple of books, including Betting the House with Tom McTague.
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Dec 11, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
Graham Brady hasn’t requested a meeting with Theresa May tomorrow, despite reports that he’s asking to see her to tell her she will face a confidence vote, a source tells us. All Sir Graham Brady himself is saying tonight is this: “If she wanted to see me, I would of course make myself available.”
Nov 16, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
BREXIT LATEST: Cabinet trouble gets worse for May... Andrea Leadsom is convening a working group of five Cabinet Brexiteers to re-write the Brexit deal, sources say. Gove, Fox, Mordaunt, Grayling, and Leadsom... They're meeting through next week Coordinated action from these five Brexiteers suggests they want to change the draft Brexit agreement so that they can stay in government and vote for it when the time comes. But if they can't....
Sep 19, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
What could the U.K. offer to break the Brexit deadlock? It’s been looking like a regulatory (but not customs) border in the Irish Sea... whatever the DUP say... since we first reported it in June. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Raab gave a heavy hint that regulatory divergence between NI and GB was still on the cards in July (and other sources confirmed it too) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…