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Peter Oborne
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To mark publication I have sent 15 examples of misleading statements by Johnson or his ministers, which remain uncorrected on the Hansard record in defiance of Erskine May and the Ministerial Code, to Mr Speaker. Copied to party leaders.


I have also send the list of false and misleading statements to Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the Commons. I know he is a stickler for correct procedure. Also dispatched to Lord Evans, Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

The Irish foreign minister, Simon Coveney, told BBC Ulster “there is not going to be very dramatic change”, in the face of calls by the DUP for the protocol to be urgently axed.

“We want the protocol to function in a way that works for everyone, north and south, on the island of Ireland,” he said.

Foster hit back on the same programme, accusing Coveney of being “completely tone deaf to the concerns of unionism”.

Foster ought to be having a go at the UK government about this.

Lewis Goodall
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Speakers note that were it not for Covid and the fact that so much demands has been suppressed as a result of European hospitality being effectively shut down, that the new export system would have collapsed completely.

Lewis Goodall
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Anyone blithely dismissing these issue as teething problems needs to examine the testimony of these two select committees today. Problems which exist not only in Scottish and Welsh businesses but English ones too.

Michael Dougan
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13) Those options are:
a UK asks to rejoin Custom Union+Single Market as third country
b UK asks to rejoin EU as Member State
c Northern Ireland rejoins EU through reunification with Republic
d Hard border, threat to GFA, risk of civil conflict
So, Tories / DUP: which one is it?

If you mean that they voted for Brexit, then yeah. But several of them were also genuinely misled, it increasingly appears.

Bletch
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That article makes very real the fact that those that voted to leave the EU each had a bespoke-Brexit in mind.

Mr Buchan, then, wanted to leave without a 2-year transition, but needed migrant labour, wanted access to the EU market, but also wanted to trade across the globe.

I expect that actually it might be e) - there is some sort of fudge. But one which is more of a climbdown for us than them.

Ad infinitum, I'm sure.


But but but Brexit's done, isn't it?