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Reuters Some banks that conduct their euro zone business from London have failed to meet regulators expectations to move enough staff into other EU countries in time for Brexit the German bank supervisor Joachim Wuermelling said on Thursday. Not all SSM banks are currently fully compliant with the SSMs respective supervisory expectations said Wuermelling referring to the euro zones Single Supervisory Mechanism that includes the European Central Bank and regulators from the 19 countries that use the common currency. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-banks/banks-have-not-moved-enough-staff-from-london-to-eu-for-brexit-bundesbank-idUKKCN1Q32Q1?feedType=RSS&ampfeedName=businessNews 14th Feb 2019

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BBC Airbus said it would start discussions with partners regarding the 3000 to 3500 positions potentially impacted over the next three years. The BBC understands that around 200 jobs in the UK could be under threat from the decision. Airbus confirmed it hopes to redeploy a significant number of affected staff to other projects. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47231504 14th Feb 2019

Economic Impact

Evening Standard Brexit has already wiped 40 billion off Britains annual economic growth since the 2016 referendum a top Bank of England official revealed today. Gertjan Vlieghe said it amounted to 800 million per week of lost income for the country more than twice as much as the 350 million a week that the Vote Leave campaign claimed could be saved by quitting the European Union. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-has-wiped-80-billion-from-britains-economic-growth-since-referendum-top-bank-of-england-a4066851.html 15th Feb 2019

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The Guardian ow badly do you have to mess up these days before youre not allowed in Theresa Mays cabinet Just how far does tolerance stretch You might imagine Chris Grayling to be the ultimate prototype in this realworld experiment with his granting then cancelling of a 13.8m ferry contract to a ferry company with no ferries but let us also observe the progress of Liam Fox. Fox is one of the most vocal and optimistic Brexiteers in politics. In 2016 he declared that a trade deal with the EU would be one of the easiest in human history. In 2017 he promised to replicate the 40 EU free trade agreements that exist before we leave the European Union so weve got no disruption of trade and they would be ready one second after midnight in March 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/14/biggest-failure-brexit-cabinet-chris-grayling-liam-fox 14th Feb 2019

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The Guardian A nodeal Brexit in economic terms would be a trip into the unknown and would very likely involve a severe shock. Even the sober subset of Brexit promoters concedes the latter shortterm point. But at least one likely outcome is becoming clearer the Bank of England would not make things worse by cranking up interest rates. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/nils-pratley-on-finance/2019/feb/14/phew-bank-deploy-common-sense-on-no-deal-brexit 15th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-47246237 14th Feb 2019

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The Independent The Scottish government wants all lost EU funding currently received by Scotland to be replaced in full by the UK Treasury after Brexit. Representatives from both the Scottish and Welsh governments are due to meet with chief secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss in Cardiff on Friday. Ahead of the meeting Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay said he was deeply concerned about the lack of clarity over future budgets and wants assurances that Scotland would not be financially worse off as a result of the EU exit. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-scotland-eu-funding-uk-treasury-derek-mackay-liz-truss-a8780251.html 14th Feb 2019

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The Pharmaceutical-Journal A nodeal Brexit could see the UK lose access to an EUwide online tracker of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance AMR Dame Sally Davies the chief medical officer CMO for England has told The Pharmaceutical Journal. Asked if the UK would still be able to access and contribute to The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Controls Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases following a nodeal Brexit she said that at the present time we actually dont know. https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/20206154.article?utm_campaign=2482_PJ_daily_alert&amputm_medium=email&amputm_source=Pharmaceutical%20Journal&ampfirstPass=false 13th Feb 2019

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Huffington Post Lobbyists for the American meat industry have urged the US government to demand Britain drop antibiotics restrictions and the ban on ractopaminefed pork as part of any postBrexit trade deal. Speaking at an evidence session in front of the powerful US Trade Policy Committee in Washington last month the lobbyists also warned forcing the UK to accept chlorinebleached chicken would require hard negotiating. Craig Thorn of Americas National Pork Producers Council said Britain should drop its standards and stop testing pork for the parasitic worm trichinae. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/watch-us-meat-lobbyists-list-demands-of-post-brexit-trade-deal_uk_5c62fc53e4b0a8731aeaa525 13th Feb 2019

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Autocar Porsche has told its customers that they might have to pay up to 10 on top of the price of their car in import tariffs should there be a nodeal Brexit. The UK is currently due to leave the European Union on 29 March but has yet to strike a deal meaning tariffs of up to 10 could be applied to imports and exports https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/porsche-warns-10-price-rise-after-no-deal-brexit 15th Feb 2019

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BBC Some of Wales top musicians have launched a new movement urging people to discuss the countrys postBrexit future and independence. Charlotte Church Super Furry Animals Cian Ciaran and Welsh Music Prizewinners Boy Azooga are all involved. Yes Is More launches at The Tramshed in Cardiff later as part of a series of cultural events. Ciaran one of the organisers said Its also about having fun and getting rid of our fears. Church said it did not matter how people voted in the EU referendum or whether they think Wales should be independent but she wanted people to talk about the issues. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47242004 15th Feb 2019

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The Guardian The FA sees Brexit as a chance to increase the number of English players in the Premier League which it says will boost the chances of the national team by exposing more players to the best football. But the Premier League has rejected this view saying there is no evidence it would work. As part of their plan the FA has called for a cut in the maximum number of nonhomegrown players allowed in each teams 25player squad from 17 to 12. https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/feb/14/how-might-brexit-affect-premier-league 15th Feb 2019

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BBC The best Brexit outcome is that a withdrawal agreement is reached to allow a smooth transition from the EU the chief executive of Invest NI has said. Alastair Hamilton made the comments following the announcement of 80 new jobs in Dungannon on Thursday. He said that it would be difficult to quantify damage caused by a nodeal Brexit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-47240932 15th Feb 2019

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BBC The Dutch government sees Brexit not as the elephant in the room but as a giant Muppetstyle monster lying on a desk. That is the picture tweeted by Foreign Minister Stef Blok with the warning make sure Brexit doesnt sit or lie in your way. There is a link to an official website where Dutch firms can see the potential impact of Brexit on their business. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47237371 14th Feb 2019

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The Telegraph ouse prices have started to fall in many areas of the country leading to fears of a fullblown house price crash. According to Halifax the bank UK house prices slumped by 2.9pc in January. Many areas in London and the South East of England have seen even bigger falls as preBrexit nerves cause a slowdown in the housing market. The Telegraph discusses how readers can protect themselves from any wouldbe Brexit house price slump https://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/five-ways-can-protect-brexit-house-price-slump/ 14th Feb 2019

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Northern Times As the terms of the United Kingdoms split from the EU on the 29th of March remain unclear British students at Dutch universities fear a steep increase in their tuition fees. Brexit could especially affect those students aiming to start a new degree in September. https://northerntimes.nl/british-students-at-dutch-universities-face-steep-fee-rises-amid-brexit-uncertainty/ 14th Feb 2019

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The Independent Diabetes UK and the JDRF a charity focused on Type One diabetes have issued their strongest statement yet with respect to that. With just a matter of weeks between now and 29 March and despite reaching out directly to the Department of Health and Social Care in December we still have not seen the concrete detail needed to reassure us or people with diabetes that the UK governments plans are robust enough to guarantee no impact on insulin and medicine supplies in the event of a nodeal Brexit. We are increasingly hearing from worried people who do not feel reassured by existing published guidance on this issue. With the information available to date we feel unable to fully alleviate their concerns. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-no-deal-theresa-may-insulin-diabetes-medicine-conservatives-a8778986.html 14th Feb 2019

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Financial Times In some cases he says the most useful thing business leaders can do is make information available to staff who might not otherwise know where to turn. But employer and employees may need more specialist advice One of the guys who has been married for 20 years has a German wife. She had never got round to taking out a British passport because there was no need. https://www.ft.com/content/cb526dce-0227-11e9-bf0f-53b8511afd73 14th Feb 2019

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BBC AE performance in England in January the worst since modern records began 84.4 treatedassessed in 4 hours https://twitter.com/BBCHughPym/status/1095984607625994240 14th Feb 2019

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Evening Standard The owner of the Westfield shopping centres today said it is reviewing its 1.4 billion new development in Croydon because of Brexit and structural changes on the high street. Work on the centre which is hoped to be the catalyst for broader regeneration was due to start in September but is now not expected to begin until next year. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/westfield-s-14bn-croydon-development-under-review-due-to-brexit-and-structural-changes-on-the-high-a4066846.html 14th Feb 2019

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Evening Chronicle The body tasked with improving the North Easts economy is to relaunch its job creation plan to reflect Brexit and other factors affecting the region. The North East Local Enterprise Partnership LEP will today publish its updated Strategic Economic Plan saying that Brexit the North of Tyne devolution deal and other factors have meant it has had to look again at its plan. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/jobs-plan-north-east-re-15826258 14th Feb 2019

Administrative Fall Out

News On The Wight Plans to prevent chaos on Portsmouth roads in the event of a nodeal Brexit were likened to the comedy of Dads Army at yesterdays full council. Leader of the city council Councillor Gerald VernonJackson revealed preparations that would involve stopping lorries on junction 1 of the M275 by the Park and Ride to check documentation. If everything is in order the lorries will be able to carry on to Portsmouth International Port to go to France. But any lorries without the correct paperwork will be directed to Tipner West until it is sorted out. https://onthewight.com/no-deal-brexit-plans-for-portsmouth-likened-to-dads-army-comedy/ 13th Feb 2019

Political Shenanigans

PoliticsHome.com https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/101853/labour-will-be-destroyed-lib-dems-if-it-ushers-tory 14th Feb 2019

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BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/anti-corbyn-labour-mps-threaten-to-quit 14th Feb 2019

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The Guardian Clive Lewis a shadow Treasury minister warned Corbyn that Labour might never be forgiven and could disappear from UK politics if MPs voted to facilitate a Conservative Brexit deal. Another shadow minister Paul Sweeney also backed a second referendum on the final Brexit deal for the first time on Thursday. The highprofile proEU backbencher Chris Leslie said he was clinging to hope that the Conservatives would back a fresh poll in the next fortnight suggesting that he had lost faith in his own party. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/14/backing-tory-brexit-could-wipe-out-labour-warns-clive-lewis 14th Feb 2019

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New Statesman Both the European Research Group and latterly Downing Street subscribe to that logic which is why the prime minister agreed to demand compromise from the EU27 on the Irish backstop something it has neither the desire nor political incentive to offer after the last set of Brexit votes last month. But when asked to affirm that strategy this evening the DUP and ERG diverged. Mays confidence and supply partners voted for the government motion while most ERG MPs followed Jacob ReesMoggs instruction to abstain on the grounds that to vote for the motion would be to implicitly reject the principle of a nodeal exit. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/02/dup-heading-split-tory-brexiteers 14th Feb 2019

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The Guardian Jeremy Corbyn will hold talks in Brussels next week with Michel Barnier the EUs chief negotiator as he seeks to break the Brexit impasse and persuade Theresa May to sign up to a customs union. The visit is likely to be highly unwelcome in Downing Street and risks accusations that Labour is pursuing its own shadow negotiations undermining the prime ministers hopes of fresh EU concessions. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/14/corbyn-to-hold-brexit-talks-with-barnier-and-verhofstadt-next-week 14th Feb 2019

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BBC MPs are voting on whether to back the governments Brexit strategy. They have rejected a Labour call for another vote on the withdrawal deal by 27 February by 322 votes to 306. The Commons also rejected an SNP call to delay Brexit by at least three months by 315 votes to 93 votes after Labour abstained in the vote. Conservative backbencher Anna Soubry has withdrawn her amendment calling for official papers on the impact of a nodeal Brexit to be published. Brexit Minister Chris HeatonHarris indicated that Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington would meet Ms Soubry and would be publishing some information. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47231597 15th Feb 2019

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Huffington Post UK A crossparty attempt to take control of Brexit and rule out no deal is a Trojan horse for stopping Britains exit from the EU a senior Labour MP has said. Caroline Flint said the Yvette Cooperled move could open the door to game playing by politicians who want to overturn the 2016 referendum result and criticised the Labour leaderships high handed decision to back it in the February 27 high noon Brexit votes without consulting MPs. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/149-a-shore-thing-with-caroline-flint-mp_uk_5c6595c0e4b0bcddd40f9950 14th Feb 2019

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The New European As for any future big demo it has to have as much impact as the great October 20 Peoples Vote march. As soon as the new date is announced every reader of The New European needs to make plans to be there taking at least 20 friends and colleagues each Remember who Milton set in contrast to the immobile Thousands at his bidding speed And post oer Land and Ocean without rest. The least we can do is march again on London so that May doesnt get Brexit through by default and wreck our country. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/andrew-adonis-remain-brexit-new-european-1-5891593 14th Feb 2019

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The Independent The assumption must be that May was persuaded to tack towards her softBrexit wing by a group of ministers who are threatening to resign if the government heads towards a nodeal exit. Inevitably by trying to keep those ministers on board she lost about 50 Eurosceptic MPs off the other side of the seesaw. But this is important because it contradicts the usual Labour allegation that May is a prisoner of her hardBrexit backbenchers and always gives in to them. This time she went the other way and lost the vote as a result. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-vote-defeat-theresa-may-no-deal-jeremy-corbyn-erg-a8779816.html 14th Feb 2019

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New Statesman Both the European Research Group and latterly Downing Street subscribe to that logic which is why the prime minister agreed to demand compromise from the EU27 on the Irish backstop something it has neither the desire nor political incentive to offer after the last set of Brexit votes last month. But when asked to affirm that strategy this evening the DUP and ERG diverged. Mays confidence and supply partners voted for the government motion while most ERG MPs followed Jacob ReesMoggs instruction to abstain on the grounds that to vote for the motion would be to implicitly reject the principle of a nodeal exit. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/02/dup-heading-split-tory-brexiteers 14th Feb 2019

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@PestonITV After tonights voting debacle no one in the EU thinks that she would secure a majority for her deal even if they were to give Theresa May everything she and the ERG Brexiters say they want and eviscerated the backstop. The EU has given up on Theresa May as the deliverer of any Brexit and is now pinning its hopes on MPs of all parties coalescing around a customsunion version of the longterm relationship between the UK and EU which would turn the hated backstop into the bridge to a permanent solution that it was always designed to be. A customsunion Brexit as the only compromise deal on offer will test to breaking point the unity of Tory and Labour parties. But if it is not seized then the default option of a nodeal Brexit becomes the vivid reality. There is an outside chance that as and when this reality bites MPs will belatedly think it is all too hard for them and decide to put the choice back to us in a referendum. https://www.facebook.com/1498276767163730/posts/2278098419181557/ 14th Feb 2019

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@BBCThisWeek Its not an opinion poll its like a jury @stellacreasy tells Michael Portillo on her call for a Peoples Assembly over Brexit bbctw bbctw https://twitter.com/bbcthisweek/status/1096198817764933632 14th Feb 2019

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@BBCQuestionTime I think we should scrap the whole thing it was a bad idea to start with @jimmywales says he wants another referendum on leaving the European Union. bbcqt https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1096185812369227776 14th Feb 2019

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The Spectator There is no cliff edge on 29 March but there are some major transitional problems that are manageable as long as the Government develops a bit of backbone argues David Green Director of Civitas https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/britain-can-manage-no-deal-brexit-tariffs/ 14th Feb 2019

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The New York Times They were lingering at the back of the church a cluster of men and women in their 60s mostly whitehaired and wearing sensible coats. They were the leaders of the local conservative association the ones deciding whether to expel Mr. Boles from his seat for trying to block a nodeal Brexit. Party leaders see the threat of nodeal as a key lever in lastminute negotiations with the European Union. He has let us down badly said Philip Sagar chairman of the Grantham and Stamford Conservative Association. I cannot vote for someone who is selfish said Matthew Lee the leader of the District Council. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/world/europe/tories-brexit-boles-may.html 14th Feb 2019

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Yorkshire Evening Post Hundreds of people marched through Leeds city centre this evening in protest against Brexit. Leeds for Europe called the protest as they launched a new campaign titled Brexit Divides Us Lets Stay Together. https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/hundreds-march-through-leeds-in-anti-brexit-protest-as-theresa-may-suffers-another-defeat-in-parliament-1-9596681 14th Feb 2019

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The Irish Times Theresa May could have presented MPs on Thursday with a neutral motion that simply took note of her statement on the Brexit negotiations earlier this week. Instead the UK prime minister asked them to reiterate their support for the approach to leaving the EU expressed by this House on January 29th. It must have seemed like a clever idea at the time but if there is one thing the conspiracy theorists in the Brexiteer European Research Group ERG are good at its spotting conspiracies. They understood that the motion could be interpreted not only as a reaffirmation of their demand for changes to the Northern Ireland backstop but also as a rejection of a nodeal Brexit in line with another amendment passed on January 29th. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/brexit-no-incentive-for-eu-to-move-as-may-loses-another-vote-1.3794452 15th Feb 2019

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Politics Home Jeremy Corbyn is facing a raft of frontbench resignations unless he throws Labours weight behind calls for a second EU referendum it has emerged. According to The Guardian as many as 10 shadow ministers could resign if the Labour leader continues to resist pressure to support a socalled Peoples Vote. Labours official policy is to keep all options on the table if it cannot secure a general election over Brexit including campaigning for a public vote. https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/101847/labour-frontbenchers-threat-quit-if-jeremy-corbyn 14th Feb 2019

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LBC One of the leading activists against corruption has told LBC that the UK is failing to act because politics is polluted by dirty Russian money .Speaking to James OBrien Mr Browder said These Russian gangsters guys in suits who are polluting the political systems of Europe including that of the United Kingdon with laundered money https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/uk-political-process-is-polluted-by-dirty-russian/ 14th Feb 2019

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Politics.co.uk The government has been defeated by MPs on propositions that they themselves backed two weeks ago. The whole edifice of blather and nonsense is coming tumbling down. Its commonly accepted that theres no majority in the Commons for a response to Brexit. But today it went a step further. It was inadequacy squared. It is clear now that there is not even a majority for the imaginary things MPs had only recently given a majority to. The whole British political system is imploding in on itself. http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/02/14/may-s-latest-brexit-defeat-the-edifice-of-nonsense-comes-tum 14th Feb 2019

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Politics Home Im very disappointed because we were told that the prime minister would be coming back to the House of Commons and there would be a statement and an amendable vote after that he says. I took that as someone who is very concerned about the effects of not ruling out a hard Brexit to mean we would have a deal or outline deal to discuss and the option of looking at that. Were now told it will be in another two weeks time so being very conscious of the damage that not ruling out a hard Brexit is having on business and industry Im concerned that its going to drag on. What concerns me most is there is now talk that there wont be a final decision until the next EU Council on 21 March which as far as business is concerned is completely unacceptable. https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/house/house-magazine/101859/richard-harrington-%E2%80%9C-my-view-erg-are-not 14th Feb 2019

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Byline Times Criminal investigations into Leave campaigns still stalled amid allegations up to a dozen MPs in the frame. The Met Police is facing accusations of a coverup over its failure to decide whether leading Brexiteers should be subject to a criminal investigation amid allegations of illegality in the EU Referendum campaign. MP David Lammy a leading Labour Remain campaigner told the Byline Times that the Mets delay smells more and more like it could be a coverup from the very top. The Tottenham MP was joined by Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson who agreed that this seems an unacceptable delay on a subject of national interest and importance. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/02/14/exclusive-senior-labour-mps-accuse-met-police-of-cover-up-and-unacceptable-delays-in-investigating-brexit-crimes/ 14th Feb 2019

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The Sun Over 100 MPs will go on holiday next week despite being ordered to stay in Parliament to vote on Brexit. MPs from all parties have defied an order to scrap their February break to work on Brexit in a move that has led some to claim the cancellation was just a PR stunt https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8431577/100-mps-holiday-despite-brexit-ban/ 15th Feb 2019

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POLITICO.eu U.K. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell found this out the hard way when he sparked outrage by calling the wartime prime minister and Britains greatest icon a villain for using excessive force to crush a picket line in the Welsh town of Tonypandy in 1910. Churchills grandson Nicholas Soames chimed in first branding McDonnell a Poundland Lenin. Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took to Twitter to trot out a not very accurate history lesson. Thousands of enraged voices predictably followed. https://www.politico.eu/article/winston-churchill-history-lesson-for-brexit-britain/ 15th Feb 2019

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RTE.ie Taniste Simon Coveney has told the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee it is incredible that the British parliament has allowed Brexit negotiations to come to their current state. It is incredible in my view that the British parliament has allowed it come to this he said. Mr Coveney also said that one of the big mistakes in London is the perspective that the EU needs a deal as much as we need a deal. https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2019/0214/1029655-brexit/ 15th Feb 2019

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BBC Plasters lose their stick revealing the hurt underneath. And the fragile patch that was covering the Tory truce has been well and truly torn. Just when Theresa May wanted to show the European Union that she could hold her party together to win she lost. And at home the prime minister has been shown in no uncertain terms that she simply cant count on the factions in her party to come through for her. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47247900 15th Feb 2019

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The Guardian May will find it much harder now to argue that she has got a Commons majority behind her Brexit strategy. The debate showed that MPs were only able to unite behind Brady because they could not agree what it meant. EU leaders who were reluctant to offer much to the UK in backstop concessions not knowing what would get through parliament will now surely feel still less inclined to engage https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/14/six-things-weve-learned-from-mays-latest-brexit-defeat 15th Feb 2019

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The Guardian Britain is a waning country and too small to stand alone on the world stage the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has claimed in a withering assessment of the ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/dutch-pm-on-brexit-uk-waning-country-too-small-stand-alone-mark-rutte 14th Feb 2019

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The National The BBC has written to all Scottish MPs and MSPs to defend Question Time amid the ongoing row over its broadcast from Motherwell last week. Below is a letter sent by Ian Small BBC Scotlands head of public policy corporate affairs sent to Scottish politicians. In the letter Small addresses our exclusive report that the BBC cut down SNP minister Fiona Hyslops answer to a Unionist rant from the audience to just seven seconds. https://www.thenational.scot/news/17434267.read-bbcs-letter-to-scottish-mps-and-msps-defending-question-time/ 14th Feb 2019

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Politics Home Theresa May has been dealt another huge blow after a rebellion by Tory eurosceptics saw her defeated again over Brexit. https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/101858/humiliation-theresa-may-mps-inflict-fresh-brexit-defeat 14th Feb 2019

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Daily Mirror Rats deserting a sinking ship display more selfrespect than the church mouse running away from another Parliamentary defeat. Vicars daughter Theresa May showed no moral fibre by cowardly abandoning the Commons chamber to duck publicly the announcement of a humiliating defeat inflicted by MPs on her Blackmail Brexit plan. The surrender of leadership was clocked in Westminster and Brussels weakening the Prime Ministers authority both with rebel Tories and heads of 27 other European countries. Taking your medicine sitting rictusfaced on the front bench to hear youve lost is what defiant Premiers do https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/cowardly-theresa-should-taken-medicine-14000913 14th Feb 2019

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BBC Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Commons defeat after MPs voted down her approach to Brexit talks. MPs voted by 303 to 258 a majority of 45 against a motion endorsing the governments negotiating strategy. The defeat has no legal force and Downing Street said it would not change the PMs approach to talks with the EU. But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Mrs May to admit her Brexit strategy has failed and to come forward with a plan Parliament would support. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47245992 14th Feb 2019

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Politics Home A government minister has accused Tory Brexiteers of treachery and called on them to join Nigel Farages new antiEU party. Richard Harrington said members of the hardline European Research Group who celebrated defeating Theresa Mays Brexit deal last month were not Conservatives and should quit. The business minister also said he was very disappointed that the Prime Minister was still refusing to rule out the possibility of a nodeal Brexit. nd he dismissed the socalled Malthouse Compromise which Mrs May is considering as a potential way of breaking the Brexit deadlock as fanciful nonsense. https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/101854/excl-government-minister-tells-brexiteer-tory-mps-join 14th Feb 2019

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Byline Times Criminal investigations into Leave campaigns still stalled amid allegations up to a dozen MPs in the frame. The Met Police is facing accusations of a coverup over its failure to decide whether leading Brexiteers should be subject to a criminal investigation amid allegations of illegality in the EU Referendum campaign. MP David Lammy a leading Labour Remain campaigner told the Byline Times that the Mets delay smells more and more like it could be a coverup from the very top. The Tottenham MP was joined by Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson who agreed that this seems an unacceptable delay on a subject of national interest and importance. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/02/14/exclusive-senior-labour-mps-accuse-met-police-of-cover-up-and-unacceptable-delays-in-investigating-brexit-crimes/ 14th Feb 2019

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@LeedsEurope In Leeds now Hundreds are marching with a clear message. LetsStayTogether https://twitter.com/LeedsEurope/status/1096108064711852033 14th Feb 2019

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iNews Labour MP Kate Hoey has lashed out at BBC News for apparently promoting a negative slant on Brexit. Hoey who campaigned alongside Nigel Farage in the 2016 EU referendum would have soon found her notifications filling up with people pointing out some very obvious points about the BBCs lack of bias on Brexit. https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-kate-hoey-twitter-bbc-negative-theresa-may-labour-8778731 14th Feb 2019

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The Guardian The latest government defeat on Brexit should be a watershed. Thursdays 45vote defeat in which scores of MPs abstained says something lethal about the parliamentary Brexit process. Opposition amendments from Labour and the SNP were duly defeated as expected. An important allparty backbench amendment was withdrawn at the last moment leaving key issues again unresolved. And the government lost another vote because of Conservative splits exposing the bankruptcy of Theresa Mays Conservativefacing Brexit strategy and reinforcing the need now for an allparty consensus approach https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/14/the-guardian-view-on-parliament-and-brexit-theresa-mays-approach-has-failed?utm_source=dlvr.it&amputm_medium=twitter 14th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

Evening Standard Brexit disputes are causing turmoil within the Conservative party after Theresa Mays humbling defeat in the Commons. The further division has come following the proBrexit European Research Groups collective decision to abstain from Thursdays lost vote. With some Remainers failing to vote and five Conservative MPs voting with the opposition the Government fell to a 303 to 258 defeat. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-latest-conservative-pary-in-turmoil-as-loyalists-infruriated-by-brexiteers-abstaining-after-a4067561.html 14th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

BBC Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered another Commons defeat after MPs voted down her approach to Brexit talks. MPs voted by 303 to 258 a majority of 45 against a motion endorsing the governments negotiating strategy. The defeat has no legal force and Downing Street said it would not change the PMs approach to talks with the EU. But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Mrs May to admit her Brexit strategy has failed and to come forward with a plan Parliament would support. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47245992 14th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

BBC What an absolute fiasco this is Tory MP @AnnaSoubry says UK politics is becoming the laughing stock of the world https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1096110987994755072 14th Feb 2019

Political Setbacks

@Femi Dominic Grieve DID NOT HOLD BACK https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1096083319354257409 14th Feb 2019

Trade Deals/Negotiations

BBC If the UK leaves the EU with no deal it will fall back on the rules of the WTO the basic building blocks of international trade. At that point the UK could choose to continue applying zero tariffs to goods being imported from the EU. But under rules set out in Article 1 of Gatt which are commonly known as Most Favoured Nation MFN rules it would then also have to offer the same terms to the rest of the world. If noone had to pay anything to get their goods into the UK that would certainly mean cheap imports. But it would also put a lot of British companies out of business and there would be no obligation on other countries to offer the UK the same tarifffree access in return https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47216870 14th Feb 2019