This story is nuts ...

Liz Truss was warned BY HER OWN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS that the Australian and New Zealand trade deals would COST BRITISH JOBS.

But the Department for International Trade kept it a secret and insisted the deals were amazing.

https://twitter.com/g_lanktree/status/1547084404048240640

Interesting blog in light of this that went up this morning from @levell_peter of @TheIFS which argues the govt needs to be UP FRONT with sectors about the risks increased imports could have on their jobs and communities so that people can prepare.

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Andrea Leadsom opening for Penny Mordaunt at her leadership campaign launch event in Westminster. Notes that she's "hard-working" ... after briefings from within DIT that she's been shirking her responsibilities Mordaunt says she was inspired to public service seeing armed forces ships in Portsmouth aged nine and realizing UK "stands up to bullies." She says Tories want "good old stuff" of tax cuts and small state

Sajid Javid doing a Conservative leadership contest launch event in Westminster. His resignation started the falling house of cards that brought down Boris Johnson. He is sweating like nothing I've ever seen before. But it's f*cking hot TBF

Proper ding dong going on at the @CommonsIntTrade between SoS @annietrev and @AngusMacNeilSNP

Committee wants a set timetable for scrutiny of the Aussie trade deal. AMT won't commit.

MacNeil: "We've been serious about this ... we need the department to be serious back to us." MacNeil asks AMT "why are we bothering?" on scrutiny. She says she can't give a fixed timetable.

MacNeil accuses AMT of "riding roughshod" over the scrutiny process.

AMT on the time demand: "If I could I would but I simply can't"

EXCLUSIVE: The full list showing which firms won COVID PPE contracts via the controversial VIP procurement lane — and who referred them

politico.eu/article/conser… Campaigner @JolyonMaugham from the @GoodLawProject said the list revealed “the vast financial rewards you could reap if you had a minister looking out for your interests."

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From the excellent @estwebber and me

Britain likes to think of itself as whiter than white when it comes to corruption ... but the actions of the current government have dented that reputation.

politico.eu/article/great-… “My personal view is it’s teetering on the edge,” said corruption expert @CSC_barrington.

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Govt minister Lord Agnew drops a bomb at Treasury committee on Brexit readiness: "There has been a head-in-the-sand approach by traders." Two Brexit false alarms, covid and now a recession have not helped. He warns traders they "really must engage in a more energetic way." Agnew warns traders their businesses are at stake and they "really must engage in a more energetic way."

Everything you ever wanted to know about the whole Brexit/Turkey situtation but were afraid to ask - with exclusive comments from Turkish ambassador to London Ümit Yalçın.

politico.eu/article/uk-tur… Interesting point: If Turkey signs an FTA with the UK but the UK fails to sign an FTA with the EU it would breach the customs union agreement between Turkey and the EU. Confusing three-way trade triangle, I know.)

🚨🚨But Yalçın left the door open to doing exactly that. 🚨🚨

EXCLUSIVE: The U.K. will use "shock and awe" tactics based on behavioral science to spur businesses and the public to prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period.

politico.eu/article/uk-gov… The term, more often used to describe a military strategy of overwhelming force and closely associated with the Iraq war, is contained in a document setting out the government's communications plan.

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Michael Gove opens his Brexit Committee appearance with a line he might regret when it comes to appearing before parliament in between EU negotiation rounds: "I’m at parliament’s disposal." Gove refuses to say whether the draft FTA the UK will put to the EU will be made public.

Michel Barnier still not too happy about Brexit: "Brexit is meant to be about taking back control but what else does it mean? It means creating trade barriers that do not exist today." In lecture at Queen's University Belfast Barnier points out that none of the EU nations would have the same economic impact as the bloc as a whole.

Tory deputy chair James Cleverly tells @Jack_Blanchard_ at the @POLITICOEurope happy hour event that the main stage set cannot fall apart this year: THERE IS NO FUZZY FELT. @Jack_Blanchard_ @POLITICOEurope Cleverly says he was wincing during the Labour conference and thought: "Please make it stop."

Blanchard: "You did make it stop by losing in the Supreme Court."

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has been hanging out with his conspiratorial friends again - despite already being alerted to their controversial online history of sharing anti-Soros memes and writing that ethnic diversity "is a huge problem"

https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1144274384628125701

Farage attended a Turning Point UK fundraiser and shared a table with millionaire hotelier John Mappin — who has shared anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and false information about Jewish financier George Soros

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Excellent stuff from the @ukhomeoffice. My dad just tried to apply for #SettledStatus and this was the result. Scheme open from today. @ukhomeoffice Tried to apply through the app. Needed some help on some stages (good luck to older people on their own).

I interviewed @KateOsamor and she said all this headline-making stuff to me. Now she and Labour are trying to argue she was somehow misrepresented. (An attempt at a thread follows)

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The problem is – she said all that stuff. Read the quotes and the full interview. All the context is explained and all the caveats she put in I made sure I included.