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Three times as many people are less confident now about Brexit compared with when Britain voted to leave

Three times as many people are less confident now about Brexit compared with when Britain voted to leave

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YouGov With the political world waiting for the outcome of the Chequers cabinet meeting YouGov has just issued the above polling showing people’s view of Brexit and asking them to compare with when the vote took place. A total of 61% say their view have not changed with 28% sticking with their original view that it would be good and 33% that it would be bad. Of course so much is up in the air and we will hopefully get…

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On this big day let’s remember Ken Clarke’s assessment of TMay just before she won the leadership

On this big day let’s remember Ken Clarke’s assessment of TMay just before she won the leadership

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The “bloody difficult woman” is tough for all sides to deal with One of the great nuggets that came out of the post Brexit referendum CON leadership contest was the above unguarded conversation between Ken Clarke and Malcolm Rifkind captured by Sky News when they thought the cameras were off them. Clarke’s descriptions of some of the leading figures who will be battling it out at Chequers today appear to be spot on particularly his observations on the woman who…

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The sick rose. The disease in the English hard right and the failure of the rest of the right to confront it

The sick rose. The disease in the English hard right and the failure of the rest of the right to confront it

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Picture Credit: Wikimedia Commons On 16 June 2016, Thomas Mair fired a gun at Jo Cox MP, shouting “Britain first, this is for Britain. Britain will always come first. We are British independence. Make Britain independent.”  He then attacked her with a knife, shot at her again and again shouted “Britain first”. Sentencing him for murder, Mr Justice Wilkie, said to him: “You affect to be a patriot. The words you uttered repeatedly when you killed her give lip service…

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The Electoral Commission decision on Vote Leave should make TMay’s task on Friday a bit easier

The Electoral Commission decision on Vote Leave should make TMay’s task on Friday a bit easier

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Vote Leave broke electoral law, Electoral Commission expected to say – BBC News https://t.co/OLgnv1GxCb — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 4, 2018 It gnaws away at the democratic legitimacy of Brexit Two days before the critical cabinet meeting at Chequers on Brexit the Electoral Commission report on Vote Leave that is being published looks set to state that the officially designated Leave campaign broke electoral law. This has the potential to take the debate to a new stage and could provide…

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The danger for LAB is that its equivocation over Brexit could be alienating its GE2017 tactical voters

The danger for LAB is that its equivocation over Brexit could be alienating its GE2017 tactical voters

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LAB drops to a its lowest share this parliament There’s a new YouGov poll out this morning that has LAB down at 37% which equals its lowest share in any public poll since GE2017. That this should happen while the Tories are in almost total internal war over the Brexit negotiations might seem surprising. This is just one poll but the overall trend is very clear – we’ve moved from a situation when there were almost solid Labour leads to…

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To force an early election Jezza needs CON defectors – but would Tory remainers really back him?

To force an early election Jezza needs CON defectors – but would Tory remainers really back him?

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“We would force a general election” if there was a bad deal or no deal for the UK, says @jeremycorbyn #bbcsp pic.twitter.com/03Qqqodm64 — BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) July 1, 2018 During the weekend the Labour leader was talking about forcing an early election over Brexit. What he didn’t say was exactly how this would come about because as things stand at the moment the Commons electoral arithmetic is very much against him. While Labour has sometimes acted…

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Fighting the last but one war. The final Brexit battle approaches

Fighting the last but one war. The final Brexit battle approaches

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8JOpPNra4bw That didn’t take long.  As soon as the Germans were eliminated, it suddenly occurred to the entire British media that “VAR” could, if you squinted at it hard enough, be read as if it were a German pronunciation of the word “war”.  Amazing, I know.  So “Don’t mention the VAR” made its way through the lower reaches of the press and swam upstream as far as the Times and the Telegraph.  Could you have imagined such wit?  The nation…

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