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• May is in office but not clearly in power

  04-12-2018 23:09 via ft.com
  Commons has taken control of Brexit and prime minister can no longer ignore MPs
  
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• May suffers double defeat on Brexit deal

  04-12-2018 20:40 via ft.com
  Blow to PM after MPs find government in contempt and seize more control of EU exit
  
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• Farage quits Ukip over ‘fixation’ with Islam

  04-12-2018 20:22 via ft.com
  Founder cancels membership because ‘party’s direction has changed fundamentally’
  
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• Steve Bell on the new Brexit timetable – cartoon

  04-12-2018 19:51
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• May crushed as parliament humbles her before Brexit vote

  04-12-2018 19:43
  
  Prime minister loses three votes in a row and her control over the Brexit process.
  
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• Can May avoid Brexit defeat?

  04-12-2018 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  It may be that the Commons does not even get to the crunch vote on the government's motion next Tuesday.
  
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• Norway-style deal poses risk to finance sector, says Carney

  04-12-2018 18:20 via ft.com
  BoE governor warns against ‘outsourcing supervision’ of important and complex industry
  
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• May’s government ordered to release Brexit legal advice

  04-12-2018 18:18 via ft.com
  First UK government to be held in contempt after humiliating 311-293 parliamentary vote
  
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• May ordered to release Brexit legal advice

  04-12-2018 18:18 via ft.com
  First UK government to be held in contempt after humiliating 311-293 parliamentary vote
  
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• Go-Ahead penalised over Thameslink delays

  04-12-2018 17:41 via ft.com
  Transport department stops short of stripping group of its franchise
  
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• Mark Carney defends forecasts of Brexit impact

  04-12-2018 16:50 via ft.com
  Bank of England governor forecast deep contraction in worst case after split
  
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• The ECJ’s Brexit opinion is sound

  04-12-2018 15:45 via ft.com
  But the path to Britain revoking Article 50 would be a tortuous one
  
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• Rejecting Brexit deal threat to London’s stability, minister says

  04-12-2018 15:30 via ft.com
  John Glen warns rejecting agreement would plunge City into period of uncertainty
  
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• Does business want Theresa May’s deal?

  04-12-2018 14:31 via ft.com
  Opinion in UK companies is more divided than the government suggests
  
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• OBR explains errors in forecasting impact of Brexit

  04-12-2018 13:34 via ft.com
  Government’s fiscal watchdog blames data revisions and other factors beyond its control
  
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• ECJ says UK can end Brexit unilaterally

  04-12-2018 12:41 via ft.com
  Britain can withdraw Article 50 notice without EU approval, advocate general decides
  
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• Guerrilla war: The parliamentary fight to stop no-deal

  04-12-2018 12:35
  
  It's conducted in procedure papers and jargon but make no mistake - this is a knife fight between parliament and the government
  
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• Britain can legally cancel Brexit. That’s EU advice – but will parliament agree? | Jolyon Maugham

  04-12-2018 11:16
  A senior adviser to the EU court of justice has said the UK can revoke article 50. The path to remain is hard – but now clearerWe can cancel Brexit. That’s what the advocate general to the court of justice of the EU, Europe’s highest court, advised this morning.The advocate general, Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, said that the UK can cancel its article 50 notice unilaterally. This means that if our own parliament decides that our interests are best served by remaining, t
  
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• Survey shows most UK companies unprepared for Brexit

  04-12-2018 11:15 via ft.com
  Aerospace and car manufacturers the most concerned about impact of no deal
  
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• Majority of UK companies have not made preparations for Brexit

  04-12-2018 11:15 via ft.com
  Under a third of companies said they had taken any actions to prepare for changes to trading arrangements
  
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• Majority of British companies unprepared for Brexit

  04-12-2018 11:15 via ft.com
  Toyota says it would be ‘very difficult’ to cope with no-deal exit
  
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• Carney defends BoE’s doomsday disorderly Brexit projection

  04-12-2018 11:10 via ft.com
  Central bank chief faced criticism over forecast that showed deep contraction in worst case
  
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• Keeping the Brexit legal advice secret is in no one’s best interests | Geoffrey Robertson

  04-12-2018 11:00
  The government is denying democracy by using public interest as a reason not to publish. Sunlight is the best disinfectantThere is no political “convention” more misguided and less examined than the supposed rule that legal advice to ministers must remain confidential. This is the basis for the government’s refusal to publish the attorney general’s advice on Brexit, instead releasing a summary. The refusal relied on the theory of attorney-client privilege – namely t
  
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• Brexit: senior minister could be suspended over legal advice

  04-12-2018 10:32
  Tory MPs put on three-line whip to defend the government against contempt voteA senior minister is at risk of being suspended from the House of Commons after Labour and the Democratic Unionist party were allowed to submit an emergency motion accusing the government of holding parliament in contempt for failing to publish the full Brexit legal advice.John Bercow, the Speaker, allowed Labour, the DUP and four other opposition parties to lay down a motion that will be voted on on Tuesday, immediate
  
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• UK can stop article 50 without EU approval, top ECJ adviser says

  04-12-2018 10:15
  European court of justice likely to endorse opinion in case taken by anti-Brexit campaignersThe UK can unilaterally abandon the article 50 process, a senior adviser to the European court of justice (ECJ) has said, in a significant boost to anti-Brexit campaigners.Campos Sánchez-Bordona said he believed EU law allowed a country to revoke article 50 - the provision of the Lisbon treaty invoked by the UK to give two years notice that it intended to leave the union – without requiring t
  
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• Top ECJ adviser says UK can unilaterally end Brexit

  04-12-2018 09:45 via ft.com
  Britain can withdraw Article 50 notice without EU approval, advocate general decides
  
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• Voter ID trials in England face legal challenge

  04-12-2018 08:00
  Critics claim the proposal disproportionately affects older people and is excessiveA legal challenge could scupper the second stage of trials of a scheme requiring people to show ID before they vote.The case is being brought by Neil Coughlan, a 64-year-old voluntary worker from Braintree, Essex, who possesses no photo ID. Braintree is among 11 local authorities due to take part in the trial during local elections next May. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: Theresa May tries to sell her deal to the country

  04-12-2018 08:00
  PM’s campaign runs into trouble as Bank of England publishes its grim scenariosWelcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing, bringing you the top stories of the week in Brexitland arranged in a way that might – with luck and a following wind – allow you to make some sense of them.If you would like to receive the briefing as a weekly email, please sign up here. And you can catch up with our relaunched monthly Brexit Means … podcast here. Continue reading...
  
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• Who is behind the push for a post-Brexit free trade deal with the US? | Felicity Lawrence

  04-12-2018 07:00
  What we didn’t vote for in the EU referendum was a clutch of rightwing thinktanks seeking to capture our democracyWhat is it that hard Brexiters and Donald Trump want so much in a free trade agreement between Britain and the US that they are adamant only a complete break with the EU could achieve it, while Theresa May’s deal scuppers it? The sort of deal they have held up as the Brexit prize is contained in a blueprint published by rightwing thinktank the Institute of Economic Affair
  
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• Britain’s skills failure shows the hollowness of May’s immigration pledge | Polly Toynbee

  04-12-2018 07:00
  A prime minister with a real plan for Brexit would have poured resources into training, answering the cry of the left behindCould any good come from Brexit? Remainers in despair search in vain in these dark days for any shred of hope. What possible gain can come from this morass of fantasy and rightwing myth-making? But if controlling our borders swung most Brexit voters, could there be one upside to that instinctive xenophobic reflex?Theresa May has always been adamantine in her insistence on c
  
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• Brexit explained: WTF is going on and how will the UK change?

  04-12-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  FT writers answer your questions about the UK-EU breakaway
  
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• Brexit explained: What is going on and how will the UK change?

  04-12-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  FT writers answer your questions about the UK-EU breakaway
  
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• What next once the Commons votes on May’s Brexit deal?

  04-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Some pathways still lead to approval of EU withdrawal agreement, others to no-deal
  
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• Investors bet on rate volatility amid fears of no-deal Brexit

  04-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Demand for derivatives contracts covering the Brexit deadline hit a record
  
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• Investors bet on rate hikes amid fears of no-deal Brexit

  04-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Demand for derivatives contracts at high as traders prepare for rapid rate rises
  
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• Ferry space faces rationing under no-deal Brexit

  04-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Dover-Calais trade could be cut by 87%, Grayling warns cabinet
  
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• HMRC censured for ‘aggressive’ pursuit of taxpayers

  04-12-2018 01:03 via ft.com
  Lords committee sees threat to rule of law and calls for review of Revenue’s powers
  
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• Birmingham prison damned as ‘exceptionally violent’

  04-12-2018 01:03 via ft.com
  Inspectors found chaos in which ‘zombie’ inmates high on drugs flouted authority
  
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• ‘Indefensible optimism’ behind rail timetable debacle

  04-12-2018 01:02 via ft.com
  Parliamentary report describes upgrade as ‘collective, system-wide failure’
  
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• MPs call for fare freeze for those most affected by rail timetable fiasco

  04-12-2018 01:01
  Select committee report highly critical of transport secretary as it blames collective failureFares should be frozen for passengers most affected by the upheaval in rail timetabling in May, MPs have demanded.A scathing report by the transport select committee said the chaotic change to the schedules on 20 May, which led to the cancellation or severe disruption of thousands of train services in the ensuing weeks, should be the catalyst for reform, including automatic compensation schemes. Continu
  
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• Labour vows to restore legal aid for benefits appeal cases if elected

  04-12-2018 01:01
  Move would encourage DWP to get decisions right first time, reducing MoJ costs, says partyA Labour government will restore legal aid for people appealing against cuts to benefits such as universal credit, the shadow justice secretary, Richard Burgon, is to announce.Those seeking to challenge decisions by the Department for Work and Pensions on welfare payments, many of which are incorrect, will be able to obtain legal advice to help them pursue appeals, Labour is pledging.Burgon argues that rest
  
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