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Will UK Ministers Ever Agree a Brexit Position?

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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Theresa May has until Friday to sweet talk or twist elbows to get all her ministers to sing from the same Brexit hymn sheet. Or will we be seeing sackings and resignations.

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According to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire, his fellow ministers will agree a clear direction for Brexit during the upcoming Chequers away-day on Friday.

But with the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, saying that the Brexit transition phase could be extended beyond 2020, which will majorly irk Brexiteers, one can see that there is still a tad of a divide in the cabinet.

So up steps the chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady, to warn ministers that they must unite behind a plan or risk both a fudged Brexit and a Corbyn led Labour government.

"Electorates these days are volatile, but one thing is certain: they do not vote for divided parties." He warned.

Well, it's very difficult when the cabinet itself is so divided that some commentators are predicting one or two cabinet resignations by the end of the week.

And while he worries about a Corbyn government, a YouGov poll shows that six out of ten Unite union people who were asked, thought that the UK would be worse off outside of the EU single market, which is of course Mr Corbyn's position on Brexit.

They were also for a second referendum by a factor of 57% to 34%.

Talk about a divided party, sounds more like two different parties to me.

But Theresa May has gone on a policy warpath.

She has set up a new Conservative Policy Commission and launched an appeal for her MPs, Lords and Conservative Party members to submit one thousand policy ideas to help win the next general election says the Telegraph. Wonder how many will say: policy one, sack May?

How low will the EU stoop? It turns out that it has been warning UK development organisations from involvement in EU humanitarian aid programmes because they could lose all funding if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

"Officials working under Martin Selmayr, the most senior aide to the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, have inserted disclaimers in aid contracts warning UK NGOs that they will be dropped as a partner in programmes should Britain crash out of the EU next year." Reports the Guardian.

But, says the Guardian report, the UK's membership of the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) means that many of these programmes would remain available anyway.

A UK government spokesperson said that the EU was hindering the UK's ability to alleviate poverty amongst the world's poorest.

Now, you could be charitable and just say that the EU Commission does not understand the rules or .... I'll leave it up to you to decide.

Arron Banks, the co-founder of Leave.EU, is now believed to be under investigation by the National Crime Agency over 'links' to Russia, says the Independent.

Finally, I was honoured today to be invited to the Fovant Badges Society Annual Drumhead Service, where the Australian Army features heavily.

The Fovant Badges Society is a voluntary organisation dedicated to the maintenance of the regimental badges that have been carved by soldiers into the chalk downs of Wiltshire just above the village of Fovant.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44672879

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/30/theresa-may-appeals-1000-policy-ideas-mps-peers-party-members/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/greg-clark-brexit-transition-period-extended-business-jeremy-corbyn-a8425371.html

http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/tories-must-pull-together-over-brexit-or-lose-to-corbyn-senior-mp-warns-11364281193360

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/01/brexit-eu-accused-of-making-false-aid-funding-claims

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-russia-arron-banks-investigated-leaveeu-national-crime-agency-a8425321.html

https://www.fovantbadges.com

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