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Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2008.

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  1. I’ve arrived in an EU country for the first time since Brexit and successfully used the EU/EAA-only electronic passport gates. I’m assuming this is because of the transition period, rather than the rest of Europe simply ignoring what’s happened.

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  2. As an aside such stunts very much argues against the notion - popular among some in No 10 - that Johnson is a “Brexity Michael Heseltine”. His team at least have some very populist instincts, in some areas notably more like Nigel Farage or Steve Bannon than Heseltine.

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  3. Media boycotts can seem self-involved and very Westminster bubble. But this is important. These briefings were from government officials - ie civil servants. It’s alarming when a government excludes parts of the media from official channels of information for political reasons.

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  4. This is not true. When some papers were excluded from a briefing last week I raised the issue at the regular No 10 lobby briefing. I didn’t get an explanation for the new “some media only” policy.

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  5. Update on No 10 media boycott, also from colleague - Downing Street source incorrectly says those excluded were not “specialist senior journalists”. All those denied entry were political staff, some of them political editors.

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  6. Downing Street vs the media latest: Political reporters stage mass boycott of a No 10 briefing on Brexit after officials bar reporters from the Mirror, Independent and other outlets from attending.

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    The sentencing remarks in the case of Sudesh Amman have now helpfully been circulated. They contain important detail about the case and the sentencing exercise.

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  8. Keir Starmer being on Mumsnet reminds me of the continuing Labour/biscuits mystery: Jeremy Corbyn saying in 2016 that while he doesn't really eat biscuits, "if forced to accept one" he will eat a shortbread. It has never been answered: who forces Corbyn to eat biscuits and why?

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  9. In other news, this is the weather forecast in the place where I will be spending most of this week.

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  10. Most important thing to recognise with this Boris Johnson speech is it's an opening statement of political intent, intended for a UK audience. Once the stage is set he could drop supposedly inviolable demands, as happened with Northern Ireland with the departure deal.

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  11. One thing is never explained when Johnson says the UK must reject EU standards on the environment/workers' rights etc because the UK ones are higher: these are *minimum* standards. If you don't want to go lower, what's the issue?

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  12. Boris Johnson is very vehemently explaining what he sees as the reasons why the UK can thrive outside the EU, and become a beacon for global free trade. For better or worse, there's a lot of British exceptionalism either explicit or implied in his message.

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  13. It is a curious paradox to hear a prime minister make a speech extolling free trade as a world-changing virtue even as he pursues a policy that will inevitably impose new import and export barriers with our closest and biggest trading partner.

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  14. As expected, new EU Brexit negotiating guidelines specify that Gibraltar is not included. This is an argument that will run.

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  15. This is becoming an intermittent pattern under the Johnson No 10 - selectively allowing coverage/access, with unsympathetic voices arbitrarily excluded. At one briefing last week the Mirror and BBC were not invited. No reason given. It’s quite Trumpian.

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  16. This is *not* to say nothing should be done in response to Streatham/London Bridge, only that decades of precedent shows you achieve more if you listen to evidence rather than respond reactively and hastily.

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  17. One of the cast-iron political rules of criminal justice is that changing laws in haste in response to one or two incidents very, very rarely achieves what it’s meant to.

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  18. I say “mystery Brexiter” purely as I didn’t hear their name, not that they’re appearing anonymously, like the Masked Singer.

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  19. Brexit jargon klaxon: mystery Brexiter on R5 saying ideal way to unite the nation is “Australia-style deal” - ie no deal. Luckily FT’s wise George Parker was on hand to point out that Australia a/ doesn’t have a deal with the EU and b/ is not a direct geographical comparison.

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  20. "As we say in Denmark: the bacon has taken control of the breakfast table." "As we say in the Netherlands: a speed-skater is only as good as the ice they glide over." etc. Anyway, from now on I'm going to say, "Ah, the tortilla is turned around!" at suitably dramatic moments.

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