A slow week following the Conservative Party Conference. The revolt against "hard Brexit" started, with a cross-party coalition coming together to demand a parliamentary vote on the opening terms of the Article 50 negotiations. The Pound suffered a flash crash, falling by over 6% and recovering by 4.76% in a span of under two minutes. The crash was blamed on rogue trading algorithms picking up on Francois Hollande's comment that if we want hard Brexit, we will get hard Brexit. The Home Office discovered that 80% of the 3.6 million EU citizens living in the UK will have residency rights by 2019, and offered the rest amnesty and the right to stay permanently. There was no official line from the government on this, but it would sure be big news if there was.
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Steve Peers writes for politics.co.uk that "Liberal Leavers and Remainers must unite against hard Brexit". Here, Peers looks at how the Brexit vote is perhaps being hijacked as a mandate for illiberal policies by the government, but argues against those who deny these views did not exist in the Leave campaign at all.
Conservative MEP Vicky Ford points to the examples of Lichtenstein and Belgium, and challenges the view that unrestricted free movement is is a red line for single market participation. I've never been quite sure about this argument, although the precedent is definitely there. Even so, Richard North has been exploring this idea on his blog for some time, and released a monograph on the subject back in July.
Christopher Booker writes in the Telegraph about "What Theresa May did and very carefully did not say about Brexit." Booker digs into the details of the speech, finding that what wasn't said is more important that what was, and that the PM's stance is not as hard as most think.
As I said, a slow week. To make up for it here are some follow recommendations for all of you on Twitter. There are people from all Brexit camps here, some with whom I often agree and others that I often don't.
Roland Smith
Richard North
Pete North
David Allen Green
Ben Kelly
Hosuk Lee Makiyama
Raoul Ruparel
Samuel Lowe
Ian Dunt
Guy Verhofstadt
Steve Peers
Matthew Holehouse
I'll add more as I think of them.
'Til next time.
alex.davies@gmchamber.co.uk
@GMCC_Alex
Conservative MEP Vicky Ford points to the examples of Lichtenstein and Belgium, and challenges the view that unrestricted free movement is is a red line for single market participation. I've never been quite sure about this argument, although the precedent is definitely there. Even so, Richard North has been exploring this idea on his blog for some time, and released a monograph on the subject back in July.
Christopher Booker writes in the Telegraph about "What Theresa May did and very carefully did not say about Brexit." Booker digs into the details of the speech, finding that what wasn't said is more important that what was, and that the PM's stance is not as hard as most think.
As I said, a slow week. To make up for it here are some follow recommendations for all of you on Twitter. There are people from all Brexit camps here, some with whom I often agree and others that I often don't.
Roland Smith
Richard North
Pete North
David Allen Green
Ben Kelly
Hosuk Lee Makiyama
Raoul Ruparel
Samuel Lowe
Ian Dunt
Guy Verhofstadt
Steve Peers
Matthew Holehouse
I'll add more as I think of them.
'Til next time.
alex.davies@gmchamber.co.uk
@GMCC_Alex
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