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The ‘Put It To The People’ march will take place in London on March 23, it was announced last weekend. Online sign-ups for the march are already outstripping the total amount of sign-ups for the first People’s Vote march back in June 2018. Sign up here.

In other news, pro-European centrist MPs have resigned from both the Labour and Conservative parties this week to sit as an “Independent Group”. Meanwhile, Theresa May presses on with talks in Brussels, receiving warm words but no big shifts from the EU. The no-deal cliff edge looms large - although MPs will have a chance to remove that danger in key votes next Wednesday. Brexit uncertainty is also feeding into ongoing economic woe, with Japanese companies who had once seen the UK as a bridgehead to the EU running down their operations - most notable Honda announcing the closure of its Swindon plant in 2021.

Let us march once more for a Final Say on Brexit (Independent)
The Independent’s editorial from the weekend reads: “The danger is real. By ‘running down the clock’ on Brexit, the prime minister plainly hopes to force – blackmail, if you prefer – MPs to choose between her deal or no deal. With time so short, the whole political system is being stressed to breaking point, the cramped conditions forcing people into that infamous bogus choice: “My way or no way.” The mantra is constantly repeated, the implication being that there is simply no time left to do anything else. It is not true. There is still time for democracy. There has to be.”

Brussels in despair as May loses three MPs to Independent Group (Times £)
The Conservative defections and splintering of Theresa May’s fragile position in parliament is viewed with growing despair in Brussels. EU officials, diplomats and governments are increasingly fearful that her diminishing majority and authority in the Commons spell failure for her attempts to get her Brexit deal over the line.

Honda’s closure: of course it’s partly about Brexit (Guardian)
Honda’s decision to close its British plant is part of a pattern, says a Guardian editorial. Nissan is scaling back its plans for Sunderland. Toyota may leave. Likewise BMW. The business secretary, Greg Clark, maintains a calm veneer about Honda, but his words – “devastating”, “dismay” – convey something close to panic at the existential threat facing parts of UK industry.

(Reuters)Honda Motor Chief Executive Takahiro Hachigo bows as he arrives at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan.

UK-Japan trade talks sour after letter from Hunt and Fox (FT)
Japanese officials sense a note of high-handed arrogance in a letter sent by the UK’s Foreign and Trade Secretaries urging speedier negotiations to seal a UK-Japanese trade deal. London is already battling to mend relations with Beijing, after China cancelled a key trade meeting with chancellor Philip Hammond in protest at a UK pledge to send an aircraft carrier to the Pacific.

From InFacts

Five things to do in five weeks so Brexit is put to the people (Luke Lythgoe)

Brexit makes a mockery of global Britain (David Hannay)

Price hikes or bust farmers? Another miserable Brexit choice (Nick Kent)

Four more Ratcliffes flee the Brexit ship (Luke Lythgoe)

When it comes to security, UK is safer in EU (David Hannay)

BBC doesn’t get PM’s key promise quite right (Hugo Dixon)

From European Movement supporters

Is Theresa May trying to outfox us?

Why we need a referendum

Brexit and Housing Associations

Brexit - the view from Liverpool

Join me at the Put it to the People March

Why I'm supporting a People's Vote

Quote of the Week

“This is our compromise: we are prepared to facilitate the passage of the Prime Minister’s deal through the House of Commons if the deal is put to a confirmatory ballot of the British people. We believe this is the way forward because Brexit started with the people and therefore should end with the people.”

Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, in The Times

Tweet of the Week

This great put down to ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab from BuzzFeed's Alberto Nardelli.

Brexit comment

We stand on the brink of a historic, national collapse – it’s time to take to the streets to stop Brexit (Independent)
A clear majority of my colleagues in parliament know that Brexit will hurt their constituents, but they still believe it serves their own narrow self-interests to allow it. MPs are putting political expediency above the national interest. They are too afraid to tell the truth.

Young people are at the end of their tether – which is why we'll march for a Final Say on Brexit (Independent)
Once scoffed at as a fanciful dream of those who laugh in the face of democracy, the prospect of giving “the people” a Final Say on what is now essentially the future of our country, is increasingly the only sensible option we have left to get us out of this mess. But there’s no use in simply talking about it, we actually need to do something about it.

Stop looking for meaning in Brexit (New Republic)
This wasn't some great multi-decade reckoning. It wasn't foreordained. It was a series of accidents.

Where Europe would be hurt most by a no-deal Brexit (New York Times)
Even though the bloc is a single market, each country has a unique relationship with Britain as far as the movement of goods, services, people and capital goes. The regions most exposed to a no-deal Brexit would experience issues ranging from disruptions in trade to costly tariffs to fragmented supply chains and restrictions on services.

This Is How Brexit Will Further Damage The Health Of Black Women In Britain (Black Ballad)

Video of the Week

The Japanese ambassador has already explained why Japanese companies like Honda, Nissan and Toyota base their factories in the UK. It’s about profit - and Brexit threatens that profit.

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UK admits trade deals with Japan and Korea unlikely before Brexit (Bloomberg)
Business Secretary Greg Clark said the UK isn’t likely to reach agreements with Japan and South Korea to roll over existing trade deals before Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on March 29. The admission throws into stark relief Trade Secretary Liam Fox’s old promise that the deals would be ready at “one second past midnight” after Brexit day.

Jeremy Hunt to Berlin: Brexit chaos will cast shadow over Europe (Politico)
"If Brexit goes wrong, it will be a disaster not just for the U.K. but for the whole of Europe," the British Foreign Secretary says in Berlin. "It means ... the shadow of Brexit hanging over the whole Continent for a long time to come."

Fitch puts UK credit rating on negative watch (FT)
The ratings agency downgraded the UK from AA+ to AA after the referendum vote in 2016. It may do so again due to “heightened uncertainty” around Brexit, Fitch revealed in an unscheduled announcement this week.

Britain’s biggest weakness exposed on eve of Brexit (Die Welt, German)
Lagging capital investment, low productivity, poor workforce training contribute to a gap in industrial competitiveness. Could the UK learn from Europe as Brexit approaches?

An anti-Brexit demonstrators' bus passes a tour bus outside the Houses of Parliament. (Reuters)

Brexit causing palpable decline in UK influence at the UN (BBC)
Brexit is already leading to a “palpable decline” in British influence at the UN, and that influence would be in freefall but for the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 % of gross national income on overseas aid, a study has found.

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The ‘Put It To The People’ march will take place in London on March 23, it was announced last weekend. Online sign-ups for the march are already outstripping the total amount of sign-ups for the first People’s Vote march back in June 2018. Sign up here.

In other news, pro-European centrist MPs have resigned from both the Labour and Conservative parties this week to sit as an “Independent Group”. Meanwhile, Theresa May presses on with talks in Brussels, receiving warm words but no big shifts from the EU. The no-deal cliff edge looms large - although MPs will have a chance to remove that danger in key votes next Wednesday. Brexit uncertainty is also feeding into ongoing economic woe, with Japanese companies who had once seen the UK as a bridgehead to the EU running down their operations - most notable Honda announcing the closure of its Swindon plant in 2021.

Theresa May appeared to accept the need for a Brexit extension this week - if her deal fails to win parliamentary approval. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn finally backed the idea of a People’s Vote, which is supported by the clear majority of party members. Labour is, however, still pursuing other options. And with only a month left to the scheduled departure date, absolutely nothing is clear and business and government are both woefully unprepared for the no-deal Brexit the prime minister still refuses to rule out.

Prime minister’s ‘planning horizon’ seems to extend no further than the middle of next week (Independent)
It would be nice to think that the prime minister has a plan, and is holding back some clever form of words until the time is right, when it is too late for Parliament to quibble. But all the evidence so far is that her planning horizon extends no further than the middle of next week. It is getting shorter – sometimes she seems to be just trying to survive the day.

Theresa May leaving parliament in her car on Wednesday (Reuters)

A new Brexit referendum is now essential (FT)
Theresa May’s aim is to convert fear of a no-deal Brexit into acceptance of her bad deal, which would leave the UK at the EU’s mercy. In the end, the rhetoric about “taking back control” has come down to a choice between suicide and vassalage. This march of folly needs to be stopped, for the UK’s sake and Europe’s. The only politically acceptable way to do this is via a new referendum. That is risky. But it would be better than sure disaster.

Government: no-deal Brexit may cut UK economy by 9% (Guardian)
The government has issued a bleak warning over a no-deal Brexit, estimating the UK economy could be 9% weaker in the long run, businesses in Northern Ireland might go bust and food prices will increase.

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From InFacts

Fab U-turn on delay. How about one on People’s Vote? (Hugo Dixon)

Crisis, what crisis? PM’s reckless no-deal tactic exposed (Nick Kent)

Brexit carries big price tag for UK retailers (Bethany Morris)

We need extra time, but not to waste more time (Hugo Dixon)

Brexit is an existential threat to women-owned businesses (Geeta Sidhu-Robb)

From European Movement

Professor Eatwell at Dinner in Eastbourne

Why it's important to attend the Put it to the People March

Democracy in action

Why a referendum is the right answer

Video of the Week

Dominic Grieve: “It is perfectly democratic to put this to the people.”

Tweet of the Week

Brexit Comment

If we’re heading for a hard Brexit, then we’re heading for a united Ireland (Guardian)
If Brexit has proved anything, it’s that many Tories don’t give a stuff about the people of Northern Ireland – not even the unionists. If they did, they wouldn’t dream of a hard Brexit because it only guarantees one thing – a border poll… A second referendum is the best way out of this mess, even for the DUP.

Actors dressed as soldiers and custom officers stand next to a mock border wall during a protest by anti-Brexit campaigners, Borders Against Brexit in Carrickcarnan (Reuters)

Parliament should use a delay to rethink Brexit (FT)
After years of insistence that Brexit will happen on time, come hell or high water, (Theresa May’s concession) ... is a welcome step towards bringing some sanity to the debate. But it is insufficient. If an extension is to happen, it should be for much longer.

Pundits were wrong to write-off the People’s Vote campaign (New European)
Not too long ago, commentators and pundits were gleefully writing eulogies for the People’s Vote campaign. But - whisper it quietly - there is growing momentum for a People’s Vote once again.

Losing respect for the 2016 EU referendum result (Chris Matheson, Chester Live)
“The more I hear about what went wrong in that 2016 referendum, the less I actually respect the result,” says MP Chris Matheson. “If that had been a sporting event then the Leave campaigns would have been disqualified months ago for cheating. That referendum is losing its credibility by the week.”

Brexit and the Arts

Woman told to remove Banksy-inspired Brexit mural (BBC)
A woman was ordered to remove a Banksy-inspired Brexit mural on the side of her house after a council said it breached advertising rules.

 A large mural depicting the EU flag being chipped away, and attributed to the British artist Banksy is seen with Dover Castle behind, at the Port of Dover (Reuters)

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Trump to EU: Play ball or ‘we’re going to tariff the hell out of you’ (Politico)
US president Donald Trump  issued a renewed threat to Brussels that the EU has to "play ball" in trade talks or "we're going to tariff the hell out of you".

(Reuters)

Britain faces harsh truths about post-Brexit trade (FT)
On its present trajectory, the Britain emerging from this process will be significantly less, not more, open to the world — losing market access in Europe and striking trade deals elsewhere less favourable than it now enjoys. The nation will be poorer as a consequence, this FT editorial concludes.

Labour must challenge the myth working class supports Brexit (New Statesman)
The party must campaign on the values its supporters in the real, progressive, multi-ethnic working class believe in, not on the values of people who will never vote for it.

Amsterdam’s Brexit bonanza (Politico)
The Dutch have a track record of wrenching opportunity out of adversity. Nearly a fifth of the country is low-lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea. And so maybe it’s no surprise that Amsterdam is doing its best to turn Brexit into a bonanza.

Poll shows Labour fall as Independent Group rises (Times)
Labour’s support has fallen below the combined total for the new Independent Group and the Liberal Democrats, according to a YouGov poll for The Times.

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The UK parliament votes to apply to Brussels for a delay in Brexit as the government effectively spins beyond the control of a prime minister who had insisted the March 29 exit date was immutable. Theresa May plans to bring her Brexit deal back to Parliament for a third vote next week, calculating that hardliners will buckle for fear of losing their prize altogether. But MPs must not let this rotten deal through - unchanged after it lost again this week by 149 votes. The UK needs time, as a country, to look at all the Brexit alternatives, and then it is only fair to put the final decision to the people.

 Theresa May speaking in parliament during this week’s Brexit debates (Reuters)

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British Parliament votes to delay Brexit, rejects a second referendum for now (Washington Post)
British lawmakers voted to seek to delay Brexit — maybe for weeks, maybe for months — after Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for leaving the European Union have been repeatedly rejected by a raucous Parliament trying to wrest control from her.

Downing Street optimism rises over Brexit deal prospects (Financial Times)
Mrs May has struggled until now to persuade her critics that they really had reached what Michael Gove, environment secretary, calls “make your mind up time”. This time Downing Street is confident that next week really will be seen as the moment of catharsis.

Brexit will mark the end of Britain’s role as a great power (Washington Post)
Britain, famous for its prudence, propriety and punctuality, is suddenly looking like a banana republic as it makes reckless decisions, misrepresents reality and now wants to change its own self-imposed deadline. But if it does leave the European Union, it would be bad news for Britain, Europe and the West.

From InFacts

Let’s squish PM’s deal one more time (Hugo Dixon)

Government doubly misleading on European elections (Hugo Dixon)

Chancellor desperate to spin economic damage of Brexit (Vicky Pryce)

Agony of splintering Tory Party is laid bare (Nick Kent)

If MPs can vote twice on deal, why can’t people vote once? (Hugo Dixon)

From European Movement

Lambeth went to Dagenham

8 things that you can do to support a People's Vote

Brexit – Irish/Welsh campaigner walks 200 miles to London to join march for People’s Vote

Divide and ruin

Why I'm attending the People's Vote March

Video of the Week

EU Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt expresses exasperation at chaos in Britain’s parliament; says he would begrudge even a 24-hour extension of the deadline if London could not present a clear plan. But he says he believes there is a younger generation in Britain that will bring their country back to the European project.

Brexit Comment

Oh, UK! What next for Brexit (Economist)
When historians come to write the tale of Britain’s attempts to leave the European Union, this week may be seen as the moment the country finally grasped the mess it was in...Mrs May boasted this week of “sending a message to the whole world about the sort of country the United Kingdom will be”. She is not wrong: it is a laughing-stock.

Britain’s reality right now: we have no functioning government (Guardian)
The Tory party is so divided and consumed by a mismanaged Brexit, it has no energy for anything else

Love Feminism, Hate Brexit: It’s nothing less than a disaster for women’s rights (LabourList)
“As women, we need to talk about Brexit,” writes Victoria Mills. “It’s a mess. For too long the debate has been dominated by male voices within Westminster and the right-wing agenda of men like Jacob Rees-Mogg whose feminism is, well, shall we say, antiquated at best.”

How do Brits think the EU sees them? It depends how old they are (LSE EU Blog)
Research by the LSE’s Sara Hobolt and her colleagues suggests that Remain and Leave are becoming crucial political identities, rivalling more familiar influences like party identification and class in their explanatory power and, potentially, their electoral consequences.

Theresa May is appallingly weak and has brought about a surreal new level of crisis - she must go (Telegraph)
Like some interminable dying scene in an opera, with the soprano shrieking on and on, flailing about madly, coughing and clutching her throat, while the audience sits there, willing it to end, saying a silent prayer: “Please let it stop. Get her off! Please…”

Graphic of the Week

Quote of the Week

“What we are hearing is the biggest change in terms of trade this country has faced since the mid-19th century being imposed on this country with no consultation with business, no time to prepare...This is no way to run a country.”

Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI lobby group, commenting on the government’s tariff plans for a no-deal Brexit. “A sledgehammer for our economy”.

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Trump slams handling of Brexit by UK's May (Reuters)
“I gave the prime minister my ideas on how to negotiate it and I think you would have been successful. She didn't listen to that, and that's fine. I mean ... she's got to do what she's got to do. But I think it could have been negotiated in a different manner, frankly."

Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion (Kevin Rudd, Guardian)
“Australians want the UK to do well,” says the country’s former PM. “But there’s no way free trade with us or others can make up for the hit of leaving the EU.”

Nissan to end luxury Infiniti car production in Sunderland (Telegraph)
Britain’s car industry has been dealt a fresh blow with Nissan’s premium marque Infiniti announcing it will stop building cars at the company's giant Sunderland plant.

Goldman Sachs' Best Brexit Guess: May's Deal Passed Eventually (Reuters)
Goldman Sachs said it sees a 55 percent probability of Theresa May getting a Brexit divorce deal ratified.

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There was no Valentine’s love-in for Theresa May this year as she faced several fraught votes in the House of Commons. This is not yet the “High Noon” we’ve all been promised - that’s been kicked to February 27 apparently - but it does risk shredding the prime minister’s authority. Meanwhile the Labour leader, who is also desperate to buy himself more time, is being threatened by mass resignations from his front bench. The blindfold Brexit being pushed from both front benches is good for no one. MPs are getting wise to that, now they need to move in support of the only way to break the Brexit deadlock - a People’s Vote.

From InFacts

3-month delay causes no problem for European elections (Pavlos Eleftheriadis)

Pursuit of Brexit is turning parliamentary world upside down (David Hannay)

May is definitely time wasting.  But towards what? (Luke Lythgoe)

Corbyn’s plan needs its day in Commons - so he can move on (Hugo Dixon)

With businesses blindfolded, no wonder economy is in trouble (Luke Lythgoe)

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Tweet of the Week

Remain Labour has worked out that Labour's current Brexit plan would cost £24 billion per year and are calling for Labour to back a People’s Vote. Read the thread here.

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Brexit health care worries for Brits in Spain (BBC)
Currently pensioners who have paid enough in national insurance benefit from reciprocal healthcare rules if they retire in the EU/EEA or Switzerland, meaning they can get healthcare payments from the NHS.  There is no guarantee this will continue after Brexit leading many to consider coming back to the UK.

Farm leaders: UK brand on food experts ‘is disadvantage’ (BBC)
Welsh farmers want to be able to use the Welsh dragon on food exports from Wales after Brexit because the United Kingdom does not have significant “traction” in markets that are significant for the Welsh agricultural industry.

Quote of the Week

“I’m on the frontbench because I live in hope that the party will get to the bit of our conference policy where it supports a people’s vote.”

Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, makes clear the pressure being put on Jeremy Corbyn to back a public vote on Brexit.

Video of the Week

WATCH: No Brexit deal can bring closure. Not May’s deal, not Corbyn’s plan.

They both rely on the Political Declaration, setting out our future relationship with the EU. Nothing in it is legally binding, which means years more of political wrangling. A People's Vote can stop this happening.

EU deputy Brexit negotiator: UK leaving will have limited impact on EU security (Politico)
EU deputy Brexit negotiator says that the UK leaving the EU will have a limited impact on EU security because France and Germany exchange a lot more information than the UK does.  

Food industry warns Gove on Brexit ‘crisis’ (BBC)
The UK food industry has threatened to stop cooperating with the Government’s policy consultations because so many staff are having to work on preparations for Brexit due to the lack of clarity offered by the governments plans.  

Top Brexit comment

Theresa May stalls on Brexit. Again. And again. And again. (New York Times)
Theresa May is playing for time in order to blackmail MP’s into supporting a deeply flawed deal.  While she does this, the UK is failing to negotiate trade deals, meaning that traders will soon be forced to make shipments not knowing if they will have to pay tariffs when the ships arrive.

Ministers will act if Theresa May carries on sleepwalking (The Times £)
Theresa May will have to choose between the pro-European and Brexiter factions in her party, which means deciding whether or not to back no deal.  If she does nothing, cabinet ministers will force her hand by supporting backbench amendments to get an extension to Article 50.

The EU looks like the Soviet Union in 1991 - on the verge of collapse (Guardian)  
George Soros warns that the EU is going through a period of “radical disequilibrium” where rising discontent in the UK and elsewhere with out-of-touch EU elites risks putting the entire EU project at risk. The solution is for the silent majority to mobilise and defend the foundational values of the EU.

An anti-Brexit float passes Parliament on the day of the latest Brexit votes (Hannah Mckay/Reuters)

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Sensible Tories must beware hard brexiter coup (Nick Kent, InFacts)
Moderate Tory MPs need to watch out. Hints are emerging that hardline Brexiters  are softening their opposition to the government’s deal. But if Theresa May’s Brexit gets through, hardliners will attempt to oust her and impose a much harder version.

Brexit hardliner Jacob Rees-Mogg (Reuters)

Brexiters are refusing to accept their victory (FT)
Brexit hardliners stand in danger of losing everything in fighting for a fiction that Brexit was always about “restoring” the UK as a great trading nation.They have turned an independent trade policy into the wheel on which their dream may be broken.

Simples! How Theresa May's embarrassing Meerkat quip won her closest aide tea at the Ritz worth £58 and opened up the PM to ridicule (Mail on Sunday)
One of Theresa May’s closest aides won tea at The Ritz after getting the prime minister to say ‘simples’ in the Commons. MPs were baffled when May used the catchphrase made famous by meerkat Alexsandr in the Compare The Market television

(Reuters)

How does he survive? The curious case of ‘Failing Grayling’ (New York Times)
While the trials, tribulations and humiliations of Theresa May have occupied centre stage in the carnival of British politics, Chris Grayling has starred in a black comedy sideshow of his own, writes the NYT. He has bumbled his way from one government post to another, accused of making a hash of each, and becoming a byword for haplessness in a golden age of political blundering in Britain.

Hapless transport secretary Chris Grayling (Reuters)

From InFacts

Independent Brexit trade dream gets holed below water line (David Hannay)

PM’s towns fund drop in ocean compared to cost of Brexit (Luke Lythgoe)

BBC reads from Brexiter textbook on threat to UK science (David Hannay)

Six reasons we’ll get bullied by a Trump trade deal (Nick Kent)

Labour  MPs won’t be wooed by flimsy workers’ rights pledge (Luke Lythgoe)

Brexiters’ shoddy track record on LGBT rights exposed (Kathryn Breitner)

From European Movement

Brexit harms business

Brexit and Economic Development

To those who say "Just get Brexit over with!"

Tweet of the Week

Brexit Comment

Dear Europe, Brexit is a lesson for all of us: it’s time for renewal (Emmanuel Macron, Guardian)
“Now is the time for a European renaissance. Hence, resisting the temptation of isolation and division, I propose we build this renewal together around three ambitions: freedom, protection and progress.”

Theresa May 'did not understand EU when she triggered Brexit' (Guardian)
Theresa May and her circle of advisers did not understand how the European Union works, and consequently followed a negotiating strategy in 2016 that was doomed to fail, the former UK ambassador to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers has said.

EU must not forget young people of Northern Ireland (Irish News)
Our Future Our Choice NI, a cross-community pro-European youth group, travels to Brussels to meet  Michel Barnier and discuss Brexit issues and the future of young people in Northern Ireland.

Brexit and Drill

“Northern Ireland Backstop”,  video by Drill musician Drillminister

“Did the average Joe Bloggs
Understand the EU
Before the referendum?
Propaganda fooled us,
Now we lookin’ to the world like losers.”

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Gridlock and violence imagined by Whitehall (Times)
Senior Whitehall figures have tested responses to the worst-case scenarios of a no-deal Brexit, including the cancellation of the Grand National and violence by the Real IRA. The details come amid claims that the cabinet secretary has played a key role in outlining the dangers of leaving without a deal to the prime minister.

Brexit 'likely to cause cancer test delays' (BBC)
Hospitals are likely to experience delays to cancer testing and treatment regardless of the result of next week's Brexit vote, BBC Newsnight has learned. The Royal College of Radiologists has told doctors to prepare for possible delays for some drugs used to detect cancer if there is a no-deal Brexit.

Convenience isn’t a word I’d normally associate with Brexit – pain, anguish and chaos are more the words that spring to mind. So it was nice last Sunday to have a sea of blue and yellow paint – the colours of both the European Union and, coincidentally, also the colours of the St Albans emblem ̶ all over a local community hall for our banner-making session , in preparation for the Put it to the People March in London on Saturday 23rd March. The colours go together nicely, which is fitting for a city that voted 63% remain.

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Dale Rodmell, Assistant Chief Executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations was the speaker at European Movement Eastbourne's March dinner held at the Hydro Hotel and attended by over 55 members.

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Join us on the march for a People’s Vote on the 23 March in central London and show again that the will of the people is now to get a vote on the final Brexit deal. 

History is unfolding in front of our eyes, dizzyingly fast and with all the votes, amendments and amended amendments it can be easy to lose track of where we are and the fact remaining is still possible. This last week in Parliament, through all of the twists and turns of voices and votes lost, a couple of things are clear.

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