#Brexit

Breathless accounts of brilliant negotiating are oddly unaccompanied by statements of UK wins. Twice the PM has signed up to deals he previously said no PM could sign up for.
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BREXIT TELEGRAMThe final weeks of the UK. After 99 years, ended by Brexit.Unacceptably long thread, to mark one month to B-Day. For anyone, UK or elsewhere, interested enough in Brexit
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Economy Minister Diane Dodds tells Stomont's Economy Committee that "the very poor financial settlement for the NI block grant in 2021/22" represents in real terms a 15% cut to her
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Thread 1.The past is, as L.P. Hartley put it, a foreign country. But can we learn anything from the extremism of the 1930s? Rise and fall in the Third Reich:
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I think you can make a case that we’re now ‘punching below our weight’. Maybe that doesn’t matter but if it does (and if it is true) how do we
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On the issue of how quickly a rejoin campaign takes a hold, well I think it depends on a lot of things - no idea why people are so absolutely
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Here's the former editor of the Sun asking on Saturday why so much of the British press supported Brexit: "serious questions have to be asked." Is it such a mystery?
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Thread: #BarCouncil AGM, chaired by @attorneygeneral begins. Amanda Pinto thanks all for attending and the AG for chairing @attorneygeneral thanks the #BarCouncil for inviting her to chair the AGM. She
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The choice made by the UK government was for friction with the EU over any kind of regulatory alignment. This is the natural consequence. It is a big problem for
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(1/7) This won't be a "Storytime with Sharapan" length post @SportsbkConsig - but one I feel well qualified to opine on, given my experience in making lines & odds offshore
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Thread of evidence of all the times the 'conservative' Boris Johnson has worked to give illegal immigrants British citizenship. There is no aim he pursues more consistently. This is all
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1. This a thread. My only credentials being 40 years an activist, fought Thatcher over CND, Poll Tax, BNP, closure of the mines, shipbuilding, steelworks, fishing and heavy industry in
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I'm not losing sleep over another opportunistic prorogation of the Parliament of Canada, but it's a reminder that we have no rules or even unwritten conventions for prorogation in Canada.
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The country was conned. This man voted for Brexit because he thought it would mean a global market for his business, but now finds that his business will be uncompetitive
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I fully appreciate that hearing that DIT advises UK companies to set up in the EU is shocking. It really isn't good PR given that one of the goals of
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On Brexit, James Buchan, Chief Exec of Scottish Seafood Association tells the Scottish Affairs Select Committee: “I’m not going to say it any other way: for our members it has
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