It's my Brexit column – I expect this will create more excitement than those penalties. https://t.co/PEXiNFnev5
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) July 5, 2018
U.K. cabinet ministers revolt over Theresa May's soft Brexit blueprint https://t.co/DmvNvj8nvw pic.twitter.com/OAt2zoSamL
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) July 5, 2018
“It’s strategic madness,” one senior government official said. “What is to stop Brussels turning round in October and saying ‘thanks, but no thanks’? Then what, single market and customs union or nothing, that’s what”
— David Phinnemore (@DPhinnemore) July 5, 2018
IT'S GOING WRONG
IT'S GOING WRONG
IT'S GOING
BREXIT'S GOING WRONG— John Rain (@MrKenShabby) July 5, 2018
Widespread ministerial unhappiness that they have to read 120 odd pages of dense and complex stuff in just a few hours before making historic decisions on UK’s Brexit future. They are not sure if tardiness of distribution is Downing Street cock up or conspiracy
— Robert Peston (@Peston) July 5, 2018
Cabinet crunch is one of many inevitable collisions between Brexit fantasy and reality.
If only the PM hadn’t spent last two years repeating the nonsense of the Brexiters and aping their fantasy she wouldn’t be in such a mess.
— Seb Dance MEP (@SebDance) July 5, 2018
Over at the Telegraph, it is not so much the spirit of Normandy as Apolalypse Now as they envisage the Chequers meeting producing Brexit: the Horror. pic.twitter.com/HOKOeLXKEl
— John O'Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) July 5, 2018
That awkward point when you momentarily find yourself in agreement with David Davishttps://t.co/i1b9dxI3pE
— Stephen Farry (@StephenFarryMLA) July 5, 2018
Exclusive: Officials within the Department for International Trade are questioning the future of the department amid talk of a customs union in all but name — and there's fresh talk of Liam Fox resigning. https://t.co/kcbGkQrzPR
— Adam Payne (@adampayne26) July 5, 2018
Exclusive: JPMorgan triggers EU talent transfer as 'dozens' prepare for Brexit move https://t.co/mVCnt5SuFc pic.twitter.com/rtwghmCJKZ
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 5, 2018
UK investigates alleged Russian links to Brexit campaign https://t.co/jFejZ5MsYI
— CNN International (@cnni) July 5, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
70 years ago, this pamphlet was pushed through the letter box of every house in the country. #NHS70Birthday pic.twitter.com/q3SEbqyqxR
— Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) July 5, 2018
To everyone who works or volunteers for the NHS, or has done since it started 70 years ago today: thank you.
It’s your hard work and commitment that helps make London the greatest city in the world. #NHS70 pic.twitter.com/gCGUCVyHZ4
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) July 5, 2018
It's beyond all reasonable doubt that both Vote Leave & LeaveEU are lying with impunity to officials. Irrespective of your allegiance, this doesn't give ordinary reasonable people confidence in our political system. The question is, why do they think they can get away with this? pic.twitter.com/gfFe8Y6rSN
— Brexitshambles #FBPE (@brexit_sham) July 5, 2018
Tomorrow's front page: Tories 'plotting to slap down Scotland's Brexit Bill EVEN IF the UK Govt loses Supreme Court case' + @PeatWorrier on the possible implications pic.twitter.com/qkkjyfEX9m
— The National (@ScotNational) July 5, 2018
EXCL: Gavin Williamson secretly backed amnesty for IRA terrorists — as the price for ending the witch-hunt of troops. Incendiary private letter from Defence Secretary to Theresa May leaked to @TheSun: https://t.co/0KfJaynSpd
— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) July 5, 2018
Devastating report by Kevin Magee into the conduct of DUP’s Luke Poots on @bbcnewsline Another DUP scandal brewing. Hard to keep up with them all now. https://t.co/O1EeQEKADL
— Chris Donnelly (@chrisadonnelly) July 5, 2018
'Justice for Tommy Robinson' protest scrapped by organisers because it clashes with England's World Cup game https://t.co/BKQwcYWH2K pic.twitter.com/hernBlPV13
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) July 5, 2018
Well done to the Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
You see, this is the kind of shizzle that makes me proud to be a Brit. Not the Brexit wank. This. https://t.co/qUPbGIMDIU
— Mike Galsworthy #FBPE (@mikegalsworthy) July 5, 2018
London Mayor Sadiq Khan grants giant Donald Trump baby blimp permission to fly during President's UK visithttps://t.co/2ubuZM7WsM pic.twitter.com/SMVHzg9VxU
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) July 5, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
Scott Pruitt’s is the ultimate good-riddance resignation. This grifter should never have been allowed anywhere near the EPA. The world is a nastier, dirtier and hotter place because of his crooked tenure as an elected and appointed official. pic.twitter.com/37B8OuAWxC
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) July 5, 2018
Pruitt says God picked Trump to be president https://t.co/jTiaJqgwIL pic.twitter.com/VknGb32awD
— The Hill (@thehill) July 5, 2018
Scott Pruitt survived dozens of scandals that should have cost him his job. He was a liar, a grifter, and unscrupulous.
To propose that he resigned because the media was unfair is a theory that — in a normal world — is so ridiculous that no one should ever listen to you again.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 5, 2018
The Wheeler who is replacing the wheeler-dealer who just quit the EPA is a former coal industry lobbyist and congressional aide who, like Pruitt, rejects climate science and supports the aggressive sacking of rules protecting our air and water.https://t.co/OVJOwzHbBB
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 5, 2018
I’m no religious scholar so I don’t know if this would fit the biblical definition of heresy, but it is stone cold crazy. For Pruitt, complete obedience + some religious zealotry gave him a belief that he had a license to steal. Good riddance to the unfathomably corrupt Pruitt https://t.co/8rh2lLa9gp
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 5, 2018
Scott Pruitt’s corruption wasn’t the real problem: What follows at EPA could be worse https://t.co/p9LxPF3DHN
— Salon (@Salon) July 5, 2018
Woman who confronted Pruitt and told him to resign asks Trump where he is going to lunch tomorrow https://t.co/WkzfUv2vvY pic.twitter.com/ocKQyLVTIC
— The Hill (@thehill) July 5, 2018
“The Army informed them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the DoD had not completed background checks on them.”https://t.co/szM6X6VfP6
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 5, 2018
Nearly 3,000 kids still separated from their parents because of the order of a historically unpopular president https://t.co/xvfBHplQmD
— David Beard (@dabeard) July 5, 2018
Fact check: WTF https://t.co/lWQA885ciN
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 5, 2018
“It's extraordinary that the president could hire someone like this,” a senior Fox News executive said of Bill Shine. “This is someone who is highly knowledgeable of women being cycled through for horrible and degrading behavior" https://t.co/0a7nsTReai
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) July 5, 2018
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WORLD
This is pretty astonishing: Yad Vashem rebukes Netanyahu, Israel-Poland Holocaust declaration contains 'grave errors and deceptions' https://t.co/ecfKLLwcq8 pic.twitter.com/wp6YnvSl6W
— Naomi Schalit (@Naomi_Schalit) July 5, 2018
Italy approves blanket ban on gambling ads https://t.co/fflUf7CDaB pic.twitter.com/91PfXdB0BA
— Soccerex (@Soccerex) July 4, 2018
The falling cost of burgers will free up cash allowing more people to do trips to New Zealand to do a tour of the Lord of the Rings siteshttps://t.co/5SfFDDIoGV
— Tim Almond (@timalmond) July 5, 2018
Bosnians : I wanna swim
Croatia : No pic.twitter.com/OxFDJgpKd0— A NorthEastern guy (@ohNoobDerp) July 4, 2018