Iain Cameron

Freelance writer & researcher in industrial policy & skills issues

[Iain Cameron @IICC]

@CameronJJJ Grimly plausible

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

Agree to election on 12th Dec & you can have a few more days to scrutinise my Brexit deal @BorisJohnson says. Translation = I said I’d leave the EU do or die & no ifs or buts on October 31st but I can’t. So, let’s have a row about an election rather than a pledge I can’t deliver

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

This is a really important problem with the Bill. It looks as though Ministers can just decide unilaterally to move to No Deal in December 2020, ruling out any further extension to the transition period even if future trade agreements or security arrangements aren’t yet agreed

[steve richards @steverichards14]

Junker says talks on new trade deal would begin on Nov 1st inadvertently reminding us that the thorny bit of Brexit is still to come and exposing myth that leaving on 31st gets ‘Brexit done’ . Trade deal much harder and its trade that splits parties. Brexit has only just begun.

[Keith Burge @carryonkeith]

Nissan is ending the night shift at its Sunderland plant. No job losses yet, but a cut in pay for 3,000 staff. If there were to be a No Deal Brexit, lay offs would be inevitable. And that would reverberate right down its supply chain and across local communities.

[Barry Sheerman @BarrySheerman]

Thought I got to Michael Gove a little when I suggested that in his heart of hearts he knew we were heading for disaster led by a man he neither liked nor trusted! @BBCParliament

[Kevin Keith @KevKeith]

#BettyBoothroyd is 90 today.

Her voice, her words, as moving, as relevant, and as powerful as ever.

"A democracy is a nation that allows its people to change its mind. If it does not, then it is no longer a democracy..."

Happy birthday Betty 🎂

@peoplesvote_uk #peoplesvote

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

We get used to handling all the things that get thrown at us, but it’s harder to see it through your children’s eyes. I am very proud of my brave daughter

[steve richards @steverichards14]

Published on September 5th- amidst epic political drama...My new book 'The Prime Ministers-Reflections on Leadership From Wilson to May':
How they viewed the crowded, constraining political stage, the flaws and strengths and their Shakespearean fates.
https://t.co/rLV7Gly0y0

[SMMT @SMMT]

British car industry suffers worst period of decline since 2001 https://t.co/AyP7CLaYk0

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Let me thank Boris Johnson or Cummings or whoever decided to put up Jacob Rees Mogg for the BBC’s Today programme. He displayed their arrogant, “born to rule”, contempt for our Parliament democracy, for many of his colleagues and for our people that marks out the Johnson regime.

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

“A candy floss of confected anger from people who oppose Brexit” @Jacob_Rees_Mogg dismisses the anger & anxiety of those who believe MPs should not be blocked from debating, voting & asking questions for 5 weeks in the run up to biggest peacetime decision in history @BBCr4today

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

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[Robert Peston @Peston]

“we'll dissolve Parliament and have an election between 1-5 November -- and that means no time for legislation”. Flippin’ ‘eck.

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Bercow weighs in - 'this move represents a constitutional outrage. However it is dressed up it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of prorogation now would be to stop Parliament debating Brexit and performing its duty'

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

And now busy being just as cavalier with the strength and stability of the country as he was with his marriage and family. These are dark, dangerous times, and the fact that minorities in two countries 'fell for' @realDonaldTrump and @BorisJohnson is a large part of the danger

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

To know the character of the man we must briefly acknowledge is Prime Minister, read his wife's account of her summer spent fighting cancer. Friends and family clearly a great support, but of him, not a mention, the father of her children too busy on the next personal ambition

[Andrew Rawnsley @andrewrawnsley]

Sensationally reckless.
https://t.co/HvGSCvzRh6

[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

Just caught up with this excellent article by #JonathanPowell who rightly concludes we need a Govt of national unity. “Boris Johnson plans to frighten Europe then charm it. Here’s why he’ll fail“ https://t.co/RwmXdz54oc

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Remarkable how the media reports @BorisJohnson spending pledges with the same breathless excitement as they reported his lies about NHS funding 3 years ago. Or how they can report his plans for ‘boosting the North’ without reference to the number of times Osborne said the same