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Brexit: We wuz robbed but is Tony the one to stop it.

Brexit: We wuz robbed but is Tony the one to stop it.

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Don Brind on the Blair intervention Like many 48 per centers I believe last year’s referendum victory for Leave was built on a mountain of mendacity, epitomised by that bus promising £350 million for the NHS. So it was good to hear Tony Blair declare, in his speech to Open Britain last week, that Brexit “will not mean more money for the NHS but less; actually it probably means a wholesale rebalancing of our healthcare towards one based on private…

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YouGov’s BREXIT tracker is back to exactly where it was just after Theresa May became PM

YouGov’s BREXIT tracker is back to exactly where it was just after Theresa May became PM

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For all the machinations opinion simply hasn’t changed Above is YouGov’s BREXIT tracker in which it has been regularly asking the same question “In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?” over many months.” As can be seen the most striking feature is the almost total lack of movement. In fact the numbers in the latest poll are exactly the same as they were at the start of August 2016 shortly…

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Six times as many LD supporters say they’re concerned about BREXIT than UKIP voters

Six times as many LD supporters say they’re concerned about BREXIT than UKIP voters

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This dynamic could have an impact next Thursday The above chart is based on data from the latest Ipsos MORI issues index and shows the party splits of those, unprompted, naming BREXIT as the main, or one of the the main, issues facing Britain at the moment. As can be seen there is a huge gap between the LDs, with 79% raising it, to UKIP voters where the figure is 15%. The Tory figure is highish well ahead of LAB….

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It’s Clive Lewisn’t a member of the shadow cabinet anymore and becomes favourite to succeed Corbyn

It’s Clive Lewisn’t a member of the shadow cabinet anymore and becomes favourite to succeed Corbyn

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Minutes after he quit the shadow cabinet, Clive Lewis is now 5/1 favourite to be the next Labour leader… pic.twitter.com/GnXamt4bOX — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) February 8, 2017 Lab MPs point out Clive Lewis voted for Govt clause + still resigned. They claim he didn't know what he'd voted for."What a knob" one says — Paul Waugh MP (@paulwaugh) February 8, 2017 But Diane Abbott doesn’t rebel Told Diane Abbott sat on the frontbench for some time, before Keith Vaz took…

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Stoke Central’s down to whether BREXIT’s a big enough issue for ordinary voters to come out an give LAB a kicking

Stoke Central’s down to whether BREXIT’s a big enough issue for ordinary voters to come out an give LAB a kicking

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This analysis feels right The following is a great series of Tweet’s on Stoke Central by the FT’s Sebastian Payne https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828723136191414273 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828723802053959680 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828724764776738816 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828725133326086145 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828726347434430469 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828726898729558016

Brexit. There’s everything to play for

Brexit. There’s everything to play for

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Embed from Getty Images My vantage point a couple of thousand metres up in the French Alps didn’t make Labour’s agonising over Article 50 any less depressing for me than it was for colleagues back at Westminster. For what it’s worth my sympathies were with those Labour MPs who felt, at this precise point in the process, that the referendum result trumped their pro European principles. But I wholly agree with MP Paul Flynn who tweeted “Anti-Brexiteers, who reluctantly accepted…

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