Daniel Boffey
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The life and death of Denys Tkach, the first Ukrainian soldier to die in Russia's invasion.
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Simon Hoare, the Conservative MP for North Dorset, has just said on Sky News that the Downing St party was held to thank Dominic Raab for holding the fort during PM's illness. So presumably he was there too?
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Irish PM Varadkar: “The position as of today is we have no texts or draft texts to consider or get legal advice on. I am not entirely sure what MPs are looking at in London. We have no legal texts or draft legal texts to consider, propose amendments to, or seek legal advice on".
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Andrew Marr: Can you as government reach 150,000 businesses and help them to prepare for no deal?
Andrea Leadsom: Yes, absolutely.
AM: Really? Before October?
AL: Yes. One of the things I would like us to do is to provide a pamphlet
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NEW: Michel Barnier has told EU ambasssors that there has been no progress. Brits keep on banging on about time limit and exit mechanism - but we keep on telling them it isn’t going to happen.
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Breaking: Donald Tusk responds to vote: "The Withdrawal agreement is and remains the best and only way to ensure an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. The backstop is part of the Withdrawal Agreement, and the Withdrawal Agreement is not open for re-negotiation"
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Reacting to vote, Dutch PM, Mark Rutte, is annoyed: “What's the point of whining on for months on end while we have been going around in circles for two years?", he said. "When Theresa May comes asking us for an extension, our response will be: 'for what? To what end?”
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After nearly six years as The Guardian's bureau chief in Brussels, I head back to London to take up role of Chief Reporter. Been a blast.
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Michel Barnier says of Irish border in no deal scenario: "We will have to find an operational way of carrying out checks and controls without putting back in place a border." That wasn't the line 24 hours ago....
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Nadhim Zahawi is having an absolute mare on Andrew Neil show. At peak nonsense, asked when Jeremy Corbyn will follow Stalin and start shooting people, he responds: "I don't know".
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The European commission has gone toe-to-toe with AstraZenica. Only one can win. So congratulations to the pharmaceutical giant in advance.
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Don't think the EU27 putting off decision on an extension is really very wise. If the objective is to avoid getting dragged into British politics, better to grant the terms stipulated in the letter of request. There won't be any clarity from London today, Monday or any other day
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Michel Barnier has told senior MEPs this morning that there is no clear majority yet among the member states for any extension at all.
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NEW: Michel Barnier has got green light from the EU27 for there to be tunnel negotiations
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The prime minister has arrived and done her handshake with Juncker. And REFUSED TO SMILE. I think we are going to get fighty PM today. What a pantomime.
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BBC R4 asks man, who rescued Duke of Edinburgh, what Philip said: ‘I can’t remember. Nothing rude’.
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New: France, Spain and Belgium put no deal right back on the table at a meeting of EU27 ambassadors today. Saw nothing in Theresa May's letter to justify a long extension. The summit on Wednesday looks to be very difficult.
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EU official on DD's suggestion that whole of UK will align with EU regs. "The UK will not have any say on the decisions taken in Brussels and will basically implement them without having any influence over them... it makes the UK kind of a regulatory 'protectorate" of Brussels'".
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Jeremy's in Brussels. A Gianni Pitella hug to kick things off.
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Johnson’s claim Dutch PM offered to mediate in Brexit row not true, say sources
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Brexit talks last night were said to be pretty rough. No meeting of minds. Appears that Geoffrey Cox unable to nudge things even to the point where he can rethink his legal advice..
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Punchy quote about PM May from piece by
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: ‘One day there will be a public inquiry and she will be judged to have been unfit for office’, says a member of the GOVERNMENT.
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Guy Verhoftstadt, coordinator of European parliament's Brexit steering committee, says chamber should not approve deal until problems with the UK's settled status scheme resolved. "We do not want EU citizens involved in another Windrush scandal in Britain. That cannot happen."
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Two families had the temerity to try and leave Bucha, near Kyiv. The result was an alleged massacre.
Two young boys and a grandfather dead.
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Reckon
@DavidGHFrost
has been an extremely effective negotiator. That the scrap now is over the detail of managed divergence is to his credit, in the context of the gov negotiating goals.
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Jean-Claude Juncker this morning: “Allow me to tell you a little secret: I didn’t sleep much because of Mrs May last night”.
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UK missed three chances to join EU scheme to bulk-buy PPE
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Those who want reassurance that the EU won't be allowed to mendaciously trap the UK in the backstop should be reassured. Those who want to be reassured that the UK won't stay in the backstop indefinitely simply because nothing else turns up to replace it, probably shouldn't be.
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Macron rules out concessions to make divorce bill palatable in UK. "Problem for Mrs May is Brexiteers didn't explain consequences of Brexit"
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Which is already in the withdrawal agreement.
Lidington says the EU now has a legal obligation to work toward alternative arrangements to keep open Irish border by end of 2020
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Not pretty when interviewers revert to proxy abuse. Pple say u r a 'north london geek'. Mmm.. Bit cheap. As was the 'are u alright' ending.
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NEW: Eu ambassadors have been told this evening that there is nothing in article 50 to prevent there being multiple extensions 1/
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Simon Coveney: "What we are being asked to do is to replace a guarantee on the border that solves it with a promise that, somehow, we will do our best to try to solve it in the future but we don't know yet. That doesn't sound like a good deal to me".
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EU will grant Brexit extension if Johnson sends letter, says Brussels
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Dominic Raab says "reasonably modest changes" to the withdrawal agreement would turn round this "lousy deal" ... Wants to be able to unilaterally revoke the backstop... making it not a backstop..
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The impact of a Jacob Rees Mogg tweet is impressive. Senior Eu officials referred to it today in meeting of 27 ambassadors: ‘This is what they are capable of’.
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Merkel stresses danger of Britain becoming Singapore-on-Thames
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"In any normal country, Theresa May will have resigned a long time ago", says former European council president, Herman Van Rompuy.
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The 'no Brexit' dividend
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Think it quite significant that Sabine Weyand, the deputy chief negotiator and engine room of EU side negotiations is in Berlin not Brussels at the moment. Reality is that for all these visits from cabinet are meant to suggest momentum, there is not a lot going on of substance.
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Confidence in UK's global role plunges after Brexit, poll finds
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UK presses for use EU lane automatic gates at Europe's airports as the consequences of Brexit start to become real
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'It was not clear if she had a plan at all': how May's night at the summit unfolded
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My spies at Brussels Gare de Midi tell me that a marvellous British farce was just about avoided just now. Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Barclay/Geoffrey Cox were on the same Eurostar but missed each other by moments.
#CarryonBrexit
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So pleased that PM Truss has wisely unlocked JRM for the morning media round. It was so unfair of the previous PM to keep him off air. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
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Diane Abbott on being asked whether she has been offered hilary benn's job: 'Goodness no - I've only just got up'
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Boris Johnson lost his rag at PMQs today and at a quick count stated at least two untruths: 1) Lab didn't vote against the brexit deal; 2) Leaving the EMA didn't enable a speedy vaccine roll out.
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Full on vaccine EU export ban would delay vaccine roll out in the UK by two months but speed up EU effort by 'just over a week'.
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Boris Johnson had described as "nonsense" that he intervened to sort the evacuation of animals over people from Kabul. Lo and behold, released gov emails appear to show that he authorised it.
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Caroline Lucas nails it rather on May not turning up for debate in most 'important election of her lifetime'.
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Here is my best bet: Downing St has given nod and wink to the loyalist Brexit Delivery Group of MPs to vote for extension of art 50 if a deal not in place by 13 March. On 12th, PM will bring back said deal to Commons. And say: vote for it, ERG, or I ask EU for a delay tomorrow
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Secret documents reveals that Downing Street ‘used police and courts to smear Orgreave miners’
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Arlene Foster had a chat with Sajid Javid last night... Well, well, well.....
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Only in Brussels would the football make way for rolling coverage, on the pub big screen, of divisions on amendments on motions tabled in the name of the prime minister.
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Tusk goes on: "If the UK's intentions for the future partnership were to evolve, the EU would be prepared to reconsider its offer and adjust the content and the level of ambition of the political declaration, whilst respecting its established principles."
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'Shameful': German MEP speaks of his personal anguish over Tory's Nazi remark
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Like a second EU referendum?
We need recall and more referendums to empower people against the political class.
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Dutch PM compares Theresa May to Monty Python limbless knight
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I question the character of anyone who puts up Priti Patel on the radio as a representative of their campaign
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It was a total shock, says Rebecca Long Bailey of Rebecca Long Bailey voting to get rid of Tom Watson
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'The document does not say that', says Nicky Morgan.
'I am quoting from the document', says Mishal Husain on behalf of a sad, dispirited nation.
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He’s spotted the problem. He has a solution. And that’s why he’s got the big mo.
Rory Stewart is the only one to tackle the problem of the BBC toddler chairs pointed out by
@DanielBoffey
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#BBCDebate
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Must be a bit disconcerting for Boris getting this everywhere he goes..for a man who likes to be liked...
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“My experience with the UK is that you have to be careful right to the last minute,” the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, warned. And he was.
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European parliament will veto any Brexit deal containing early cut-off date for free movement
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Tusk adds: "We will continue our preparations for all outcomes, including a no-deal scenario. We will also continue the EU´s process of ratification of the agreement reached with the UK Government."
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No withdrawal agreement. But a free trade deal based on Tusk offer on pol dec. And ‘invoke standstill agreements’ of the Madhouse Compromise. Seriously? Been following this at all?
My interview on
@bbc5live
. If the Withdrawal Agreement cannot be put to the Commons again, we must leave the EU on 29th March as the law demands. We can return to Tusk's offer of a generous Free Trade Deal and, in the meantime, invoke standstill agreements of Malthouse Plan B.
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'What more can I say', says a depressed Tusk leaving the press room. 'Thank you and goodbye'
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The superb Ken Clarke on Boris's plan: "Stick your arms out and you will fly to the great blue yonder. That's not a policy".
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Boris Johnson’s busy week to include Macron in Paris on Tues, Merkel in Berlin on Wed and calls with Leo Varadkar and Donald Tusk, who may or may not have been thinking of Johnson when he said there was a special place in hell for thoughtless Brexiters.
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Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen to talk at noon Brussels time. There is some positivity in the air.
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Help me raise £1000 to help Tymofiy Seidov, 8, the last child in a ruined village in north eastern Ukraine who has been evacuated with his family after 87 days in a basement. They need help getting to Europe. Please
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and RT. Thanks!
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@DominicRaab
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'Corbyn, Sadiq khan, they have come down and spoken to the victims. They didn't hide behind police. Where's the prime minister?'
This is starting to look like a defining moment for Theresa May. Colleague Andrea Leadsom asked where she is
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Senior EU official on their guidelines for the next few months of Brexit talks: "They are Davis-proofed”.
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Give a thought to British negotiating team though. Civil service sweat, blood and tears gone into trying to move Cox dial. Will have known last night, even as some newspapers were celebrating a victory, that what was on the table would not cut the mustard. Must have been surreal.
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I watch this whenever I can. Dark moments are made lighter by it. A joy. You can store it away. Come back to it later when things are grim. This is a keeper. A little treasure.
Matt Hancock being totally normal with a woman.
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"There are no substantive negotiations going on", says Hammond of the alleged talks with Brussels.
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Juncker’s next linguistic bon mot as he switches language again during presser: “Everyone understands English. None understands England - but everyone understands English’
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The apparent UK rejection of managed divergence is properly weird. So weird I can't really believe it to be true.
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EU preparing statement ruling out Brexit renegotiation should Brady amendment pass
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Wow...
How do you live with yourself, after killing another man? What would you have done in WWI? Visit to discover more.
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"In December, it doesn't look like negotiations are going to move into second phase to talk about the future", says Merkel ally
@ManfredWeber
who is seeing Theresa May in Downing Street tomorrow
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Theresa May has said the UK will not automatically align with EU workers rights because if the EU lowered them, we would have to.. Have I missed something? That's not, ehm, true. The EU sets a minimum level not a max..
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Vincent Kompany's father elected as first black mayor in Belgium
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Brexit trade deal expected within hours
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'Difficult but possible' to have a Brexit trade deal tomorrow, Barnier said today. But my money is on the weekend.
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Clearly CCHQ seen something in the polling that they don't like about a general election pre-Brexit but post 31 October "do or die" deadline.
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Slovakian journalist investigating claims of tax fraud linked to ruling party shot dead
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But that if the UK has not held European elections by 23 May then they will not be able to extend again beyond 1 July 2/
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Asked whether Donald Tusk would be concerned not to disrespect Theresa May, after the Salzburg fiasco, an EU official says that "telling the truth" is not being disrespectful. Fear that the PM might hear some more hard truths this week.
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It sounds like you are in a 'No mode', Sammy Wilson? 'No', says Sammy Wilson.
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