🇬🇧🇪🇺Endorsing our latest report, former Secretary of State for Defence Sir @LiamFox warns “an EU defence project risks undermining our collective security.”
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A closer relationship with the EU would have implications for defence policy. "That's not in Britain's interest and wavering voters wouldn't like that," @defossardf tells @GBNEWS
We're calling for televised debate between would-be Foreign Secs @David_Cameron and @DavidLammy
"Lawful" but awful!
🚨Khan's #ULEZ expansion may have been given the green light from judges on their high hill but it will be the poor who are hit the hardest.
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“At a time when people have been facing unprecedented costs, it is completely unreasonable to prioritise the tiny minority of those able to afford the unnecessary luxury of an electric vehicle.” Brian Gregory, chairman of the ABD
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ERG holds its regular Monday meeting later in Westminster.
Senior member tells me they'll go "completely and utterly berserk" if there were any move towards a Swiss-style arrangement.
"For many of us, it's the defining issue of why we are in politics."
'Liz has completed the journey that the whole nation needs to go on.'
Staunch Brexiteer @SteveBakerHW explains why Liz Truss has the backing of the hard Brexit wing of the Tories.
#StandUp4Brexit vote #LizForLeader 🗳
BBC staff who voted to leave the EU remain "secret Brexiteers" to this day, terrified of their colleagues finding out their views, the House of Lords has heard.
#DefundTheBBC
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NIP Art 16 refers to “serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist, or to diversion of trade,..” Does not specify international trade. Is akin to US “interstate commerce” wh is trade internal to US. In any case… (1of2)…
In 2019 Theresa May’s No 10 thought her leadership was safe for a year & that her #BRINO deal could be delivered. ‘They were wrong,’ reveals @CJCHowarth, ‘only three people knew they were wrong. I was one.’ Read to see what the trio then did & how. https://t.co/GpCwT0Cq59
A great write-up. Thanks for the mention @CJCHowarth: “By MV3, the ERG ‘Spartans’ had lost the support of the entire conservative movement and press, save for some Telegraph hacks and the doughty @BeccyRyan and Helen Mayer of #StandUp4Brexit”
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Sharing the Greatest but Most Unsung Brexit Hero award 🥁...
ERG researcher @CJCHowarth - who equipped us all throughout the last few years
Strategist @MechaNonPlacet, now at @TheCriticMag - who provided outstanding advice and all he got was this lousy border down the Irish Sea
The treaty text has been released. A line of thermos flasks full of tea are now lined up. Long thread to follow over the course of the day but the texts themselves are here: https://t.co/8X2yQj7PwT
Amid the expectation of an EU-UK agreement, ERG MPs will want to wait until we have seen a legal text and we understand what it means, if our opinion is to have any credibility. @Conservatives@StandUp4Brexit As soon as @10DowningStreet make statement, we will expect to have text
“Boris Johnson has told us that he wants a deal that treats us as a sovereign country.
“If he can’t get a good deal, Lord Frost should tell Mr Barnier it’s no deal – and walk out.” @MPIainDS
https://t.co/3X4IH09p2I
Sounds promising..."Can the PM guarantee that in any agreement with the EU, British sovereignty will be protected for the whole UK...?" @lrobertsonTewks asks at #PMQs
"Yes indeed. I can make that guarantee.. and our position on fish hasn’t changed.”