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Amber Rudd to represent Tories in BBC general election debate

Home secretary to take part in programme with party leaders after Theresa May refuses to face cameras

Labour has yet to confirm who it will send to take part in the BBC election debate in Cambridge between 7.30pm and 9pm on Wednesday 31 May. (Guardian)

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• 37% of voters have lower opinion of prime minister than at start of month
• 39% have more positive view of Labour leader, says Observer/Opinium research

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Theresa's May's 'no deal is better than a bad deal' Brexit logic could end up destroying the British economy

After Theresa May originally used the 'no deal' formulation in January, many pointed out its foolishness, its lack of realism. And she stopped using it for a time. So why is it now in the Conservative manifesto? Is it because she's afraid the hardliners in her party might topple her?

refitman wrote:Fallon being a muppet again, this time on Peston.
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The IFS credibility for sober analysis suffered an own-goal on 26 May during its non-rigorous and biased assessment of the party manifestos. A defender might argue that criticism of both the Conservative and Labour made the event “even-handed”. However, the central message was that expenditure exceeding revenue is irresponsible, an ideological position that parrots the propaganda of the Conservative Party.

I don’t think that these things are necessarily to do with the idea that Britain can ‘cherrypick’ some parts of the EU that they like, and it is more subtle than simply rejecting warnings as 'project Fear'. Rather, what underlies such sentiments is two related things. One is a taking for granted of the familiar accoutrements of modern life without realising that they are the product of extensive, albeit largely invisible, institutional arrangements. So of course ‘nowadays’ planes fly us to wherever we want without restrictions, as if this were not the outcome of complex agreements such as the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA), and ‘of course’ we can travel visa-free in Europe, as if that were not the outcome of freedom of movement rights. In some ways, Brexiters, who despise Euro technocrats and bureaucrats and rail against extra-national decision making, also treat it as an act of nature that there are Europe-wide regulatory systems which, on Brexit, British citizens will still have available to them.

From this mixture of lack of realism about EU institutions, symbolic understanding of leaving, and dishonesty about the consequences of leaving flows a great danger. As the realities of what Brexit means kick in, the leaver mindset that leaving ‘didn’t mean that’ or ‘shouldn’t mean that’ or ‘needn’t mean that’ is morphing into a belief that ‘the EU is making it mean something that it doesn’t, or shouldn’t or needn’t’. So whereas a rational response would be to say that by voting to leave leavers have chosen the consequences, what is emerging is the punishment narrative that Brexiters are already beginning to deploy to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of their decision.

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ComRes: Con 46%, Lab 34%. Tory lead falls from 18 to 12 points (below)
Opinium: Con 45%, Lab 33%. Tory lead falls from 19 to 10 points (below)
ORB: Con 44%, Lab 38%. Tory lead falls from 12 to 6 points (below)
YouGov: Con 43%, Lab 36%. Tory lead rises from 5 to 7 points
ICM: Con 46%, Lab 32%. Tory lead unchanged at 14 points

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Robert Bourns, president of the Law Society, also told the Press Association he fears for English and Welsh law firms that do not have an EU presence and the longer term future of the £25.7 billion sector, which employs 380,000 people.

Temulkar wrote:Corbyn should turn up for the leaders debate. It would humiliate May having Rudd there. I get the rationale of not appearing, but think the risk is worth the gain.

Temulkar wrote:Corbyn should turn up for the leaders debate. It would humiliate May having Rudd there. I get the rationale of not appearing, but think the risk is worth the gain.

One is a taking for granted of the familiar accoutrements of modern life without realising that they are the product of extensive, albeit largely invisible, institutional arrangements.
...treat it as an act of nature that there are Europe-wide regulatory systems which, on Brexit, British citizens will still have available to them.
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As the realities of what Brexit means kick in, the leaver mindset that leaving ‘didn’t mean that’ or ‘shouldn’t mean that’ or ‘needn’t mean that’ is morphing into a belief that ‘the EU is making it mean something that it doesn’t, or shouldn’t or needn’t’. ...punishment narrative...Brexiters...avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of their decision.

The related underlying issue is that for many Brexiters the vote to ‘take back control’, with all its emotional
resonance, was not thought about in concrete legal or institutional terms but as a kind of symbolic, feel-good act.

That, indeed, is the implication of the Brexit White Paper which affirms (para 2.1) that sovereignty was never
lost by EU membership but that “it has not always felt like that”.

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The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union White Paper
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Merkel: Europe 'can no longer rely on allies' after Trump and Brexit

Somerset: where fed-up farmers are ditching the Tories

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Somerset: where fed-up farmers are ditching the Tories

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Two out of three people believe that Theresa May should reveal her Brexit strategy more clearly before polling day on 8 June, according to a poll for The Independent.

The survey by ORB suggests that many voters share the concerns of pro-Europeans who claim the Prime Minister is seeking a “blank cheque” to take Britain out of the EU on whatever terms she decides. Some 68 per cent of people agree that she should spell out more of her Brexit plans before the election, while 12 per cent disagree and 20 per cent neither agree nor disagree.

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Merkel: Europe 'can no longer rely on allies' after Trump and Brexit

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#Breaking Japan goverment spokesman says North Korean missile appears to have landed in Japan; SKorea convening emergency cabinet meeting

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North Korea has fired an "unidentified projectile" from its east coast, South Korean officials have said.

The object was aimed eastwards - in the direction of Japan and the United States - the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council to assess the launch.

A Japanese government spokesman confirmed the missile appeared to have landed in Japan's waters but said no damage had been caused. The launch was a "clear violation of UN resolutions" and posed a risk to ships and aeroplanes in the area, he added.

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#Heathrow chaos so bad the Daily Mail is advising travellers how to claim compensation based on #EU law and ECJ rulings

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A senior academic has accused the Conservatives of a "sleight of hand" over the justification of its grammar schools policy in its manifesto.
Prof Alice Sullivan challenges the party's statement that selective schools have proportionately more pupils from "ordinary working class families" than non-selective schools.
She says families in the bottom third for income have been excluded from the calculation supporting this data.
The Tories stand by their manifesto.

"It does seem that unless they've actually tricked themselves that they believe that the bottom third of families aren't working class, or either they are stupid enough to think that they're not, that they are actually using a bit of statistical jiggery-pokery."

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One thing I love about General Elections is that you can call one looking like Real Madrid and three weeks later you're Tranmere Rovers.

Just five weeks after her husband’s death, Offord said: “It’s very difficult to say to someone ‘well, you might get remarried’, but some people do get remarried.”

gilsey wrote:My real worry is that the tories will have a small overall majority, not least because there seems to be a possibility that they'll take some seats in Scotland.
This will be a disaster for May, the 1922 committee will come calling and she'll be gone in days.
Then they get a John Major type who looks much better and softens the rough edges, and the moment has gone.

The only thing is, I can't imagine who the John Major type might be, if they have one where was s/he last time?
The tories seem to be as strapped for leadership candidates as Labour.