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Government loses Article 50 case. Theresa May is the big loser not BREXIT

Government loses Article 50 case. Theresa May is the big loser not BREXIT

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The woman who brought the Article 50 speaking outside the RCJ pic.twitter.com/Khpqh5w9jx — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 3, 2016 Article 50 judgement not a rejection of BREXIT but of Theresa May's strategy for dealing with it. She is today's big loser — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 3, 2016 The actual judgement pic.twitter.com/rWvcebcrp1 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 3, 2016 Government to appeal https://t.co/pFshDHasrm — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 3, 2016 So what happens next?

Free movement now appears to be at the heart of Brexit negotiations

Free movement now appears to be at the heart of Brexit negotiations

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Don Brind on what the assurances to Nissan might mean The new Select committee on Exiting the European Union, who will hold their first meeting on Wednesday, will have the opportunity to shape the debate on what Brexit actual means. The 21-strong committee is like to have a majority of members who backed Remain. Eight of the ten Tories, including Michael Gove, were Leavers but all five of the Labour members, including the chair Hilary Benn, were Remainers. Of the…

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With the court challenge to Theresa May’s Royal Prerogative plan starting the latest Article 50 trigger date betting:

With the court challenge to Theresa May’s Royal Prerogative plan starting the latest Article 50 trigger date betting:

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Although nothing on the scale of EURef or WH2016 the biggest home political betting market at the moment is on when Article 50 will be invoked thus triggering the formal process of the UK exit from the EU. Mrs. May’s plan, which she stated again yesterday, is for this to happen by the end of March 2017. Her desire is to avoid Parliament having a say in the triggering decision stating there her authority is what happened on June 23rd….

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The chances of Mrs May getting her own way on the Article 50 revocation date are less than 78%

The chances of Mrs May getting her own way on the Article 50 revocation date are less than 78%

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By-passing parliament is going to be tricky A massive political battle is brewing on the PM’s declaration at last week’s CON conference that she’ll invoke Article 50 to extract the UK from EU in March. As can be seen from the chart of Betfair betting above punters have moved sharply to the Jan-June 2017 option which reached an 81% chance and is now starting to slip a bit. All betting is about assessing the chances of something happening and comparing…

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Joff Wild says keep an eye on Keir

Joff Wild says keep an eye on Keir

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If the Holborn and St Pancras MP is not the first to leave the shadow cabinet, his new Brexit role makes him a decent outside bet in the Labour leadership stakes, writes Joff Wild With Tory ministers briefing against each other as they fall out over Brexit and the Trump campaign seemingly on the verge of implosion in the US, the recent Corbyn Labour shadow cabinet reshuffle has, understandably, not grabbed many of the headlines. But it is noteworthy, nonetheless….

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Taking the 20/1 on Philip Hammond being the first to leave the cabinet

Taking the 20/1 on Philip Hammond being the first to leave the cabinet

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Excl: Cabinet split on Brexit growing over whether to stay in EU's customs union – 'will see Hammond or Fox walking'https://t.co/w7KaQJ4Ui4 — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) October 5, 2016 A few days ago The Sun reported that A MAJOR Cabinet split on Brexit is brewing over whether to sever all links with the EU on customs controls, The Sun can reveal. One of Theresa May’s top table team has even predicted there will be resignations from it over the tinderbox issue….

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The other side of the table. How the EU is shaping up to approach Brexit negotiations

The other side of the table. How the EU is shaping up to approach Brexit negotiations

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Embed from Getty Images To date, most British commentary on the impending negotiations on Brexit have concentrated on what negotiating position Britain might take, as Theresa May’s government gropes towards a tenable approach.  It takes two to tango and so we need to consider how the EU is going to negotiate also.  This has been given much less attention. Such attention as has been given to the EU’s side of the story usually alights on the same few key players. …

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What The Great Repeal Bill means for triggering Article 50

What The Great Repeal Bill means for triggering Article 50

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This commitment, if made and delivered, will kill the Article 50 challenge stone dead. https://t.co/45I34Dn1Bk — Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) October 1, 2016 One of the most interesting aspects of the forthcoming Great Repeal Bill is the implications it will have for the Article 50 case currently progressing through the courts. The tweet above is from the eminent Q.C. Jolyon Maugham, who is involved in the Article 50 court case, indicates this is a clever way by Mrs May to stop…

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