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May EU strategy: we may know little more for months
Some EU figures don’t expect to see much more of Theresa May’s hand than is already known even when the Article 50 moment comes.
Some EU figures don’t expect to see much more of Theresa May’s hand than is already known even when the Article 50 moment comes.
The Lib Dem leaflets are already printed. They will argue that a Lib Dem vote is the only way to truly pressurise the Government on Heathrow.
Brexit changed the dynamics of this argument for some ministers. You have to look mad keen for business opportunities, you can’t afford to play into a narrative that Britain is turning inwards.
A bumper UK/EU free trade deal has always been at the heart of Brexiteers’ assumptions about why life on the outside might be better for the UK.
He praises the Leave side for early preparation and better knowledge of the arguments and for rebuttal speed.
Nicola Sturgeon feels that Theresa May has gifted her a priceless argument for the second Scottish independence referendum whenever it comes.
There would be a draft second independence bill published on Monday and she would make preparations so Scotland could call a referendum before Britain leaves the EU in 2019.
The message is that great change must come, dictated by the roar of the Brexit vote. She has determined what the roar meant.
On Theresa May’s flight to New York one official on her team joked he’d issued instructions that Boris Johnson was to be “rugby tackled” if he looked like he was leaving their section of the plane to mingle with the media.
We are awaiting Theresa May’s first address to the UN. The UN’s mind is elsewhere. The attack on a humanitarian convoy in Syria has dominated the coverage here. Also President Obama’s farewell.
Failing to keep financial services in the Single Market would be a “massive blow” says Oliver Letwin. But he thinks there’s a way of getting the deal the City needs.
A slap-down for Theresa May’s ambitions for a bespoke Brexit deal? European Commission President Juncker today ruled out “a la carte access to the Single Market”.
Camilla Cavendish, head of policy for David Cameron in No. 10, says it’s the thought of sitting through Brexit debates in parliament that drove David Cameron out of parliament.
Theresa May batted away all attempts by MPs to make her spell out her Brexit renegotiation strategy. There will be no running commentary she said – repeatedly.
Until Theresa May mentioned, in her closing press conference, how her predecessor shared her opposition to a points based system, I hadn’t heard David Cameron’s name mentioned here once.