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Cabinet committee to hold talks on future relationship with the EU on Monday
The Brexit Cabinet Committee is expected to get down to discussing the government position on the future relationship on Monday afternoon.
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Jeremy Hunt said that A&E departments are treating more people in under four hours than they were seven years ago. But he didn’t mention that the number of people waiting more than four hours has gone up too – by 600 per cent.
The Brexit Cabinet Committee is expected to get down to discussing the government position on the future relationship on Monday afternoon.
A joke about cough sweets didn’t sugar the pill – the economic forecasts in Philip Hammond’s second budget this year were much gloomier than those he announced in the spring. The Chancellor admitted that productivity “continues to disappoint” and that meant a sharp slash in the prediction for future growth. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said…
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“What a psycho drama, really sphincter-tightening,” was how one senior Tory put it to me at the end of Theresa May’s speech.
Philip Hammond has just told Radio 4 that Boris Johnson’s absolute two- year limit on a transition, nailed to the church door in his “Sun” article, was “a rhetorical flourish”. I think that is Treasury-speak for “a giant porkie”. He’d seen the phrase “about two years” in the PM’s speech and did not attack it…
Theresa May has spelt out that Britain is formally requesting a status quo transition period of around two years and is willing to pay for that. It will mean just about nothing will change in terms of relations with the EU until five years after the referendum. That’s quite a pill for some voters to…
Theresa May tried to bat away questions about Cabinet divisions on Brexit in a press conference in Ottawa but those divides are real and potentially lethal.
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article is clearly the speech he had hoped to give about now but was told by a No 10 emissary he should not. Instead he has burst on to the scene in print, albeit unhelpfully behind a paywall and on a day when the threat level has been raised and eyes are…
You hear of envoys being sent from No 10 to the FCO on “getting to know you” sessions. Tory MPs ask: “You hearing Boris might flounce out?”
The President of the European Parliament has suggested that Brexit should probably be dropped from the October European Council agenda. Some Whitehall officials seem resigned to the October deadline being missed, despite warnings to Cabinet colleagues from the Chancellor that Brexit negotiations needed to give business clarity on the transition arrangements soon to avoid damaging…
The Guardian’s document is a draft of a White Paper that No. 10 had hoped would be published in final form about now, spelling out UK immigration policy post Brexit. The fact that we are seeing a leaked version and not the final published one tells you that the PM has not got wider Cabinet approval to publish it. The signs are, I hear, we are still some way from such a document being published.
Parliament’s back after the summer and the Brexit bill is on its way through Parliament. Here are four things you need to know.