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• Labour MPs who back Tory Brexit face moment of reckoning, say activists

  07-02-2019 23:30
  Another Europe is Possible targets MPs who defied whip on attempt to delay article 50Labour activists are to target 30 Labour MPs with warnings of “a moment of reckoning” including deselections unless they vote down any Brexit deal brought by Theresa May, organising phone banks and campaign days to pile pressure on MPs.The drive, which is co-ordinated by the leftwing, pro-referendum group Another Europe is Possible, will involve dozens of activists targeting the constituencies of MPs
  
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• Keir Starmer battles to keep Labour support for people's vote alive

  07-02-2019 22:01
  Jeremy Corbyn’s offer to back PM’s deal sparks backlash from his party’s anti-Brexit MPsKeir Starmer is battling to keep alive the prospect that Labour could ever support a second Brexit referendum as the party reacted angrily to Jeremy Corbyn’s offer to back Theresa May if she flexes her red lines.Corbyn had written to the prime minister on Wednesday night laying down his conditions for supporting her deal without mentioning the possibility of a public vote, sparking the
  
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• Members of US Congress warn UK over Irish border

  07-02-2019 21:47 via ft.com
  Senior lawmakers from both parties question post-Brexit trade deal if peace accord threatened
  
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• Decision on Ramsgate Brexit port funding on hold

  07-02-2019 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The transport secretary asks Thanet council not to make a decision on the future of Ramsgate's port.
  
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• May and EU to reopen talks to break Brexit impasse

  07-02-2019 21:14 via ft.com
  PM admits not easy to salvage deal and Tusk says no breakthrough in sight
  
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• Instagram bans graphic images of self-harm

  07-02-2019 21:03 via ft.com
  Facebook’s photo-sharing app was under pressure in UK after suicide of London teenager
  
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• Brexit deal may not be put to MPs until late March, officials say

  07-02-2019 20:42
  May and Juncker hold strained talks as EU examines technical aspects of Irish border The Brexit negotiations are being pushed to the brink by Theresa May and the EU, with any last-minute offer by Brussels on the Irish backstop expected to be put to MPs just days before the UK is due to leave.In strained talks on Thursday, during which Donald Tusk suggested that Jeremy Corbyn’s plan could help resolve the Brexit crisis, Theresa May and the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker,
  
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• What Corbyn's terms for backing May on Brexit really mean

  07-02-2019 20:34
  It is far from clear whether Labour’s five demands for UK withdrawal are achievableJeremy Corbyn has set outthe terms under which Labour would back Theresa May’s Brexit deal. But what would his five key demands entail for the EU negotiation and for her attempt to get a deal through the Commons? Continue reading...
  
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• Home Office Windrush fund helped only one person by end of 2018

  07-02-2019 19:51
  UK government accused of ‘aggravating people’s suffering’ over immigration statusOnly one person had been granted emergency financial support by the Home Office’s Windrush hardship fund by the end of last year, according to the latest summary of the government’s progress in resolving the fallout from the scandal.The news was met with dismay by those campaigning for better treatment of those affected by the Home Office’s handling of Windrush cases. Continue rea
  
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• Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit offer to Theresa May – cartoon

  07-02-2019 19:40
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• The Guardian view on the Brexit talks: tied to a mean-minded fantasy | Editorial

  07-02-2019 19:30
  The prime minister persists in trying to cobble together a Commons majority behind a form of Brexit that offers no guarantees about the futureDoggedness has sometimes served Theresa May well in the past two years. Yet, as this phase of the Brexit process reaches another crunch point, that same doggedness may now be her undoing. On Thursday the prime minister met a series of officials in Brussels. Her purpose was to try to fettle her Brexit deal in ways that the European Union can accept and Cons
  
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• Corbyn’s shift on Brexit heightens Labour tensions

  07-02-2019 19:17 via ft.com
  Offer of compromise deal with Theresa May enrages pro-EU MPs
  
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• Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no-deal Brexit | George Monbiot

  07-02-2019 19:16
  They want to tear up our green regulations so they can plunder and pollute the environment for profitPart of me wants to smash it all up. I want to see the British bubble burst: the imperial nostalgia, the groundless belief in the inherent greatness of this nation; the casual dishonesty of those who govern us; the xenophobia; the intolerance; the denial; the complacency. I want those who have caused the coming disaster to own it, so that nobody ever believes them again. No-deal Brexit? Bring it
  
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• Bank of England joins dovish peers with rates on hold

  07-02-2019 19:12 via ft.com
  UK central bank forecasts lower growth on back of Brexit uncertainty and global weakening
  
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• The Brexit delusion of ‘Singapore upon Thames’

  07-02-2019 19:07 via ft.com
  Promoting a small Asian city-state as a model for Britain is magical thinking
  
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• Labour MPs must not be fooled by Theresa May’s Brexit promises | Faiza Shaheen

  07-02-2019 18:42
  Those thinking of helping the prime minister have forgotten a golden rule: never trust the ToriesJust when we think we have reached peak Brexit complexity, we always seem to go one better. As Jeremy Corbyn’s letter to Theresa May laying out Labour’s terms for supporting her deal made the headlines, I simultaneously got an email from a local party member decrying Labour “facilitating Brexit” and a text from a local resident saying, “Yay, this is clear and offers a so
  
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• Brexit: May says she can get deal through with binding changes

  07-02-2019 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  EU leaders reject the PM's call for legally-binding alterations, as the two sides plan more talks.
  
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• Bertie Ahern: Compromise better than a no-deal Brexit

  07-02-2019 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The Irish government should avoid a no-deal Brexit at all costs, says ex-prime minster Ahern.
  
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• Bank of England pulls back on multiple rate rise plans

  07-02-2019 17:54 via ft.com
  Economic forecasts are downgraded to weakest level in a decade over Brexit uncertainty
  
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• Brexit/property funds: cash test dummies

  07-02-2019 17:36 via ft.com
  The logic of ‘liquidity buffers’ is simple but it may also be wrong
  
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• Teaching all pupils to act more like Etonians won’t help solve inequality | Suzanne Moore

  07-02-2019 17:15
  Damian Hinds wants everyone to mimic public school children, but class assimilation is a superficial solutionIt really does take a special kind of inattention to observe public life today and conclude that what we need is more public school swagger. Our politics is currently dominated by men who are so convinced of their own swag it’s dangerous. We know where politics as a debating society with no real-world consequences leads: Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson are exemplary only in their
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May says EU leaders want deal

  07-02-2019 17:08 via ft.com
  UK prime minister wants legally binding changes to backstop
  
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• May and Juncker plan further talks to end Brexit impasse

  07-02-2019 17:06 via ft.com
  European Council president Donald Tusk says ‘still no breakthrough in sight’
  
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• Labour’s customs union proposal might just work

  07-02-2019 17:05 via ft.com
  But any influence the UK wields after leaving the EU would be strictly limited
  
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• Anti-Brexit MP Owen Smith 'considering' quitting Labour

  07-02-2019 16:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Pontypridd MP Owen Smith says he and a "lot of people" are considering leaving the party.
  
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• Theresa May on Brexit timing and Tusk 'hell' tweet

  07-02-2019 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May says Donald Tusk's comments "were not helpful and caused widespread dismay" in the UK.
  
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• Theresa May pushes back against Tusk’s sharply-worded comments

  07-02-2019 16:35 via ft.com
  European Council chief had said there is ‘special place in hell’ for British Eurosceptic leaders
  
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• Brexit: May's 'robust but constructive' talks with Jean-Claude Juncker

  07-02-2019 15:35 via ft.com
  Both sides in Brexit deal debate agree to further talks
  
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• Mark Carney issues no-deal Brexit warning

  07-02-2019 15:31 via ft.com
  Britain's economic forecasts are downgraded to weakest level in a decade over Brexit uncertainty
  
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• BoE poll highlights deep Brexit uncertainty among UK businesses

  07-02-2019 15:02 via ft.com
  Nearly half of companies surveyed by central bank ‘not ready’ for chaotic EU exit
  
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• UK draws up secret plan to boost economy in no-deal Brexit

  07-02-2019 15:00 via ft.com
  ‘Project After’ looks at options from export support to cutting taxes and tariffs
  
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• Brexit: What's behind Corbyn's letter to May?

  07-02-2019 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  What's missing from the Labour leader's Brexit demands is as important as what is in them, says Iain Watson.
  
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• Bank forecasts worst year for UK since 2009

  07-02-2019 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Brexit uncertainty and a slowing global economy prompt the Bank of England to cut its growth forecast.
  
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• Why Corbyn’s letter matters

  07-02-2019 14:31 via ft.com
  Labour leader is trying to project a new mood of co-operation between opposition and government
  
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• Labour denies second vote is next step if PM rejects Corbyn's Brexit letter

  07-02-2019 14:08
  Shadow minister earlier suggested spurning support for revised deal would leave party with no choice but a second referendumLabour has denied it would automatically move to back a second referendum if Theresa May rejected Jeremy Corbyn’s offer of support for a revised Brexit deal, despite a shadow minister suggesting that would be the next step.The shadow Brexit minister, Matthew Pennycook, said that if the government rejected the offer from Corbyn, made in a letter to the prime minister o
  
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• May and Juncker plan further talks to break Brexit deadlock

  07-02-2019 14:04 via ft.com
  European Commission president tells UK withdrawal treaty not open for renegotiation
  
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• Only the UK leads America in its rush to kakistocracy

  07-02-2019 14:02 via ft.com
  Two nations appear to be in competition over which has the least competent leadership
  
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• Fatal stabbings hit highest level since records began

  07-02-2019 13:48 via ft.com
  ONS data show 285 killings in year to March 2018, an increase of 73
  
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• What next for Theresa May’s Brexit deal?

  07-02-2019 13:05 via ft.com
  Ministers fear PM could take talks to the wire in hope that EU or Tory right will compromise
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover takes £3.1bn hit as demand stalls

  07-02-2019 12:59 via ft.com
  UK’s biggest carmaker suffers big writedown as it posts third quarterly loss in row
  
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• Hello Brexiters, and welcome to your special place in hell

  07-02-2019 12:44 via ft.com
  I’m afraid there is a hard border with paradise — and you’ll need euros of course
  
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• May arrives in Brussels for crucial Brexit deal talks

  07-02-2019 12:19 via ft.com
  UK prime minister to press for ‘legally binding changes’ to withdrawal agreement
  
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• Advice at GP surgeries planned in £6.5m legal aid move

  07-02-2019 11:31 via ft.com
  Increase in funding following review into impact of cuts is labelled a ‘drop in the ocean’
  
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• Labour's new Brexit policy looks an awful lot like Norway Plus

  07-02-2019 11:11
  
  If it looks like Norway, sounds like Norway and walks like Norway - it's probably Norway.
  
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• Spitting Image Thatcher puppet to be auctioned

  07-02-2019 10:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The TV show caricature of the former prime minister is expected to fetch £3,000 at auction.
  
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• Energy prices to increase for millions as Ofgem raises cap

  07-02-2019 09:16 via bbc.co.uk
  A new price cap could see households on default energy tariffs typically pay an extra £117 a year.
  
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• Brexit: No meeting of minds in Belfast or Brussels over backstop

  07-02-2019 08:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May heads to Brussels, but the divide over the Irish border backstop shows no sign of abating.
  
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• Screen time: Children advised not to use electronic devices at dinner

  07-02-2019 07:59 via bbc.co.uk
  As concerns mount over how screen time and social media affect children, parents are given suggestions.
  
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• Trump and Brexit have ended up remarkably similar. Here’s why

  07-02-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  ‘Anglo-American populism is a mix of wronged superpower vengeance plus buccaneering capitalism’
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn promises pay rise for low-paid workers

  07-02-2019 05:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader is to set out policies including a pledge to raise the National Living Wage.
  
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