The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

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The petition for a second referendum on EU membership was set up by a leave campaigner a month ago

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http://news.sky.com/story/1717815/second-referendum-petition-was-set-up-by-outer

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on peston yesterday, Hammond set out the key challenge

Accept continued free movement and watch 17 million people get even angrier or hurt the economy.

will come back to this with a look at the boris telegraph article

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UK divorce terms with Europe will determine impact on Premier League. Brexit piece:

http://bigstory.ap.org/f8a8bf86b3ce4befb88ae5cc0a2faf18

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Alberto Nardelli ‏@AlbertoNardelli

Official from a UK-friendly gov't: access to single market negotiable, but free movement and all the rights of our citizens in UK a red line

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Ben Coates ‏@bencoates1

Quote of the day, from Brexiter Iain Duncan Smith: "Our promises were a series of possibilities"

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Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam

Conservative Leave MP, Boris backer: "there is no plan. Leave campaign don't have a post Brexit plan, Number 10 should have had one"

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this is a nasty one, not a fun read

the EU will treat the UK like Greece (in a leave newspaper)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/the-eu-will-treat-britain-like-greece/

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Nick Clegg in March

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ECB's Villeroy - Brexit talks must be quick, City of London at risk of losing 'EU passport'

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-ecb-idUKKCN0ZB09M

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Here's why Labour MPs are panicking. Brexit is the majority view across a large swathe of Labour territory

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some labour party stuff follows

there are two legal interpretations on whether corbyn can get on a new election ballot automatically (in which case they can't get rid of him, as the membership re-elects him) or if he needs to be nominated (in which case he might not get the nominations to get on the ballot)

the NEC has to decide which legal view to go with. if they go with the latter, corbyn can challenge in the high court, or the PLPcan challenge the former in the high court

a big mess

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still, they are all getting on as best they can

Kevin Schofield ‏@PolhomeEditor

Shadow minister on Andy Burnham: "Utterly self-absorbed and spineless. He won't even be a footnote."

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here is one interpretation

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George Eaton ‏@georgeeaton

Labour MP on why they're acting now: "There's no safe seat north of Islington."

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Gotta love the fact everyone thinks there is no plan.

On Immigration, for example, I am 99.9% sure that it was never said the gates would come down. It was suggested we would adopt a more Australian approach with a points system.

Amazing how quickly we forget.