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Big danger for TMay is that the Tory process for ousting a leader is totally separate from the contest that would follow

Big danger for TMay is that the Tory process for ousting a leader is totally separate from the contest that would follow

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There would be no identified assassin One of the things that doesn’t seem to have been appreciated about the CON rules is that the process of ousting a leader is totally separate from the leadership election that could follow. If 15% of Conservative MPs, 47, request that there is a confidence vote in the leader then that would happen without those behind it having to identify themselves and without the move being linked to any of the names that have…

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Be careful what you wish for

Be careful what you wish for

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Alastair Meeks on EU politics and Brexit How they chortled.  For three months, loyal Conservative Leavers have had to endure the taunts of their opponents, sneering at the way in which Theresa May called an unnecessary election to secure a Brexit mandate and mislaid her majority.  And now their nemesis, Angela Merkel, has suffered a similar fate.  Despite many months of polls showing them cruising to a healthy win, the CDU and the CSU tallied just a third of the…

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If there was to be a new Brexit referendum then LAB voters would be overwhelmingly for REMAIN

If there was to be a new Brexit referendum then LAB voters would be overwhelmingly for REMAIN

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Lots of talk at the LAB conference today of a second Brexit referendum. This comes amidst new GQRR polling that suggests more support for the idea including 70% of LAB voters. The chart above, based on the latest Opinium data, shows the splits by party support if such a move was to take place. Essentially the country remains totally split on the issue and no doubt this will figure strongly in Manchester next week at the Tory conference. What I…

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Deadline 2021: the clock might (or might not) be reset but it is still ticking

Deadline 2021: the clock might (or might not) be reset but it is still ticking

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Cx_1HAf6k May’s Brexit concessions still deliberately risk a Crash Brexit So now we know what the longest cabinet meeting of the century achieved: everyone united around the proposition that if there’s a row to be had, it can wait. That’s as true of internal cabinet divisions as it is of the main UK-EU negotiations. At some point the crunch will come – but not yet. It was always extremely likely that the UK would ask for some form of transitional…

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The reaction to Theresa May’s Florence speech – as we are set to effectively remain in the EU until 2021

The reaction to Theresa May’s Florence speech – as we are set to effectively remain in the EU until 2021

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Summary – We will pay an unspecified amount for a two year transition period and bespoke trade deal. — Jason Farrell (@JasonFarrellSky) September 22, 2017 Not clear that TM will have blown away the stumbling blocks with this speech. Overall tone is appeal to EU Leaders to see UK as a partner — Jason Farrell (@JasonFarrellSky) September 22, 2017 Four months ago May was outside No 10 accusing the EU of rigging our election. How times have changed… — Ben…

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The war without end

The war without end

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Picture: Not the last Tory PM to have their premiership destroyed by Europe Can Mrs May’s speech today accomplish what every Tory PM has failed to achieve in the last 40 years and finally unite the Tory party over Europe? I was born a few months before Margaret Thatcher became PM, which will make me forty next year, in that time frame every Tory Prime Minister has had their premiership either ended or destroyed by European Community/Union affairs, and it…

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It seems the only exiting going on at the Department for Exiting the European Union is the staff exiting

It seems the only exiting going on at the Department for Exiting the European Union is the staff exiting

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UK’s Brexit shuffle suggests Theresa May is very much in command https://t.co/kRXhfSMayI — FT UK Politics (@ftukpolitics) September 18, 2017 Theresa May tightens grip on Brexit by hiring David Davis's right hand man https://t.co/7D1ZQo7e2I — Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics) September 18, 2017 I m told move part of May taking more control of EU negotiations as well tensions btw him and David Davis — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 18, 2017 hope no one reads anything into fact that David Davis has…

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Rewriting history

Rewriting history

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The first calling point of the UK's negotiator immediately after #Brexit will not be Brussels, it will be Berlin, to strike a deal — David Davis MP (@DavidDavisMP) May 26, 2016 Medieval artists were very fond of the myth of St Sebastian’s martyrdom.  Perhaps it was the uplifting story of a holy man miraculously surviving apparently certain death, perhaps it was the opportunity for the artist to spend hours at a time with a handsome naked young man in front…

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