Dominic Raab says the Saudi account of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death is “not credible” and that people must be “held to account” over it. He won’t be drawn on what specific actions the UK could take…
“Let’s say three months”…
Keir Starmer makes the point of again not ruling out Remain if there’s a second referendum. Labour continuing their Brexit policy of being all things to all people…
Brexit Minister Suella Fernandes says it won’t be a “walk in the park” but the UK “can thrive in a no deal scenario”. As long as the government has done the ground work to prepare…
Suella denies being a Brexiteer sleeper agent. Ironically many Brexiteers think she was asleep on the job when she headed up the ERG and the Northern Irish backstop was slipped through…
Lord Wolfson says no deal is possible and we should prepare.
No deal probability is obviously rising…
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney gives an optimistic progress check on the Brexit deal, saying that the Withdrawal Agreement is 90% agreed. Though it’s going to be more than just a “bumpy ride” for May if she formally climbs down on the customs union as expected this week…
Former chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove says he is “troubled” by Jeremy Corbyn’s past associations:
“I think someone coming from my background is troubled by Jeremy Corbyn’s past associations, some of which I find surprising and worrying… He has enthusiastically associated himself with groups and interests which I would not say were the friends of the British nation…
“I’m expressing concerns about him and his political past which I think are pretty extensively shared by a lot of people.”
He’s not the only one to have concerns about Agent COB…
Nicola Sturgeon says she would “expect” SNP MPs to vote in favour of a second EU referendum if given the chance. At least they’re consistent about wanting to reverse referendum results…
Full credit to Andrew Marr who, after last week asking Jeremy Corbyn to his face if he was an anti-semite, just accused Theresa May of personal responsibility for the death of a 67 year-old Windrush scandal victim. It was a tough interview from the start where she noticeably failed to rule out further compromises beyond Chequers – five times. Watch the fade out at the end, no small talk. She just death stares him.
UPDATE: Kay Burley agrees
#marr on fire this morning. Hats off to his research team too
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) September 30, 2018
As does the political editor of The Sun
Wonderful final playout shot on #Marr. He thanks PM for coming on as credits play, but gets nothing but the icey stare from her in return. Marr resorts to instead nervously shuffling his papers.
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) September 30, 2018
Leading Remainer Ruth Davidson has firmly rejected the possibility of a second EU referendum, saying she would be an “enormous hypocrite” for supporting one:
“When it comes to the possibility of re-running referendums, I would be an enormous hypocrite if I said ‘just because there was one that I had lost as a Remainer we should immediately re-run it’ when I’ve spent four years in Scotland saying that Nicola Sturgeon shouldn’t get another one on independence because that’s one that I won…”
Tory Remainers agitating for a second referendum could take a lesson from Ruth on what political principles look like…
Marr asks May twice whether she will make further concessions on her Chequers plan to get a deal with the EU. May dodges the question twice…
Theresa May repeatedly refuses to apologise for her “hostile environment” policy which led to the Windrush Scandal. Her only apology is for “the fact that some people who should not have been caught up in that were caught in that”…[…] Read the rest
