#BREXIT

There are 126 days until the UK leaves the EU economic system for good. The conventional wisdom is that a deal (another oven-ready triumph?) will be agreed at the last
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The #UK and #EU may not reach a trade deal by end of transition. What would ‘no trade deal’ look like?NEW @UKandEU report tells you everything you need to know.Spoiler
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Why is Jeremy Corbyn so unpopular? His net approval rating is 'minus 60' - that's heroically, historically poor. But why? And is there a way back, like 2017?Been pondering with
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Last night I was part of a Twitter convo about Corbyn and Brexit policy. It has seriously bothered me. And I feel like I need to clarify why the initial
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1. Any serious examination our #Brexit trade negotiations suggests the UK is playing silly buggers and was never sincere about a deal and we're just going through the motions to
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Bad-faith commentators are pretending that #BrexitRiots in Northern Ireland couldn't have been predictedHere's a thread giving CREDIT to those who raised concerns before the EU referendum & DISCREDIT to those
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Not sure people are noticing the gravity of what is happening here.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1275039777620996097 Some voices asking me to explain in more detail, so I will try my best. On a fundamental
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If anyone is actually interested in why we are where we are in Northern Ireland, they should take a wee look at how chunks of the "peace money" that flowed
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My latest piece for @WarOnTheRocks on the strategic choices facing #UK defence policy https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/strategic-suspense-british-foreign-and-defense-policy-at-a-crossroads/2020 is a momentus year... 1/8 1) last stretch of
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A thread where I discuss how the Netherlands authorities have responded and reacted to changing circumstances for British residents in my adopted home country regarding Brexit, a place that I
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Brexit talks risk “stalemate” if there is no progress in the next week's round of negotiations. “Not many lights in the tunnel” ahead of "crucial round" say EU sources.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/26/b
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THREAD: Dominic Cummings doorstep is fascinating. He clearly believes he understands public mood better than journalists, based on 'winning' the argument over Brexit. That was based on using simple, blunt,
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Pre-Brexit, the Good Friday Agreement allowed unionists to enjoy the sense of being an integrated part of the UK, with no border between themselves and GB, and nationalists to enjoy
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BREAKING #DidoHarding govt's Track & Trace czar is• a #JockeyClub steward& formerlya director at Cheltenham Racecourse & a director of Racecourse Holdings Trust(ht @E91_Cowbridge)https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/about-us/
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Thread on independence. Please read it and tell me I am wrong.The Tories have changed their tune recently. They are now using the sound bite “the SNP doesn’t speak for
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A few choice quotes to recall from the Brexiteer leaders:1) Coming to a free trade agreement with the EU should be "one of the easiest in human history.' Liam Fox,
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