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Peter Foster

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Public Policy Editor for @ft. BOOK: What Went Wrong with Brexit: https://t.co/UP3yuNFih7

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This will make uncomfortable reading for UK Univeristies...Migration Advisor Cmme finds post-study 'graduate route' visas are likely to be fuelling low-wage migration rather than drawing “global talent” into high-skilled jobs - via @ft Delphine Strauss

ft.com/content/a95cc8…

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UK goods exports to EU fall again. Volumes down 3.7% in Sept, 7% in Sept — latest ONS figs via William Bain BCC which wants more TCA fixes

UK goods exports to EU fall again. Volumes down 3.7% in Sept, 7% in Sept — latest ONS figs via @William_Bain @britishchambers which wants more TCA fixes
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Denis MacShane(@DenisMacShane) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bill Cash years ago created lawyers for leave. There’s always a KC or two ready to provide an argument for a client and the opposite. Not sure a Gilbert and Sullivan character like Cox convinces anyone but just confirms prejudice of his fans

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“And who was this? Sir Geoffrey Cox! Remember that deep bass voice, that drawing-room orator well on his way to becoming a bronze statue of himself?” — Matthew Parris, sharing this morning for the sheer Pope-like viciousness of the writing. 🐝

“And who was this? Sir Geoffrey Cox! Remember that deep bass voice, that drawing-room orator well on his way to becoming a bronze statue of himself?” — Matthew Parris, sharing this morning for the sheer Pope-like viciousness of the writing. 🐝
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As ever. The Tory Right dog never quite catches the car. 2nd reading was their point of maximum leverage over Rwanda bill. They blinked. It drains away from here.

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Some Tory right rebels are privately despondent. They fear that ministerial promises to work with them to “improve” the bill at report and committee stages are hot air, and that the PM and his allies will now try to drive it through largely unamended. “I warned my colleagues…

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Chris Grey 🇺🇦(@chrisgreybrexit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So, Tory MPs who know it's unworkable but hope it might just not flout international law in the end + those who know it's unworkable but hope it might end up flouting international law combine to support unworkable plan that likely flouts international law. A proud day, indeed!

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Chris Grey 🇺🇦(@chrisgreybrexit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a good example of one aspect of 'Brexitism'. The 2016 vote was never about pulling the UK out of all international conventions, yet it is being used as if it did. It's nonsense, but it's dangerous nonsense.

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Olly Bartrum(@ollybartrum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Perhaps too late but here comes a thread on what we thought went wrong with Covid decision making - in Sunak's Treasury and elsewhere - because it seems v poorly understood.

A good pandemic policy is not one that pits health vs economy - it is not a simple tradeoff...

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Robert Saunders(@redhistorian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This point is crucial: almost all the incentives in UK politics now privilege campaigning over governing; factional loyalty over competence; the short-term over the long.

It's not just about 'bad apples': it's about the structural forces that bring them to the top of the barrel.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski(@DmitryOpines) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I know how this goes. Next steps:

1️⃣ Shanker Singham releases a 'draft Rwanda deal' he wrote in his basement without talking to Rwanda;

2️⃣ Patrick Minford publishes a paper claiming that deporting 100 asylum seekers would increase UK GDP by 34%

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We’re back to 2019 levels or foot-stamping. “I want a wunicorn🦄…and I want wone NOW! 🍼”

(And I don’t care if it exists or not.)

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