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1 SOUBRY SNAPS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As the Cabinet gathers this morning, MPs are trying to work out whether Anna Soubry\u2019s latest outburst is just the dying ember of Tory pro-EU resistance to Brexit or a sign of a much wider threat to Theresa May\u2019s authority. Soubers\u2019\u00a0Newsnight interview<\/a>\u00a0certainly sounded like a howl of pain, going public with things she\u2019s been saying privately recently: her frontbench is \u201cin hock to 35 hard ideological Brexiteers, who are not Tories\u2026it is about time Theresa stood up to them and slung \u2019em out\u201d.<\/p>\n

Soubry also signalled she was ready to walk herself. \u201cIf it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson \u2026 And if that means leaving the party, form some new alliance, God knows, I don\u2019t know.\u201d Her Brexiteer critics think her wish should be granted, and she should be kicked out herself. Soubry is loathed by some of her own side, yet with a wafer-thin Government majority, she and fellow Remainer Tories know they have real clout. One risk is that by being so strident she deters colleagues from joining her.<\/p>\n

There is certainly a palpable unease among Tory MPs right now. After a meeting with the Chief Whip yesterday, one normally loyal backbencher declared of May: \u201cshe\u2019s bloody useless!\u201d One MP told me that a set of disastrous May local elections would definitely be the next flashpoint for May\u2019s leadership. Jacob Rees-Mogg didn\u2019t calm things yesterday, telling journalism students \u201cI don\u2019t get the impression that it\u2019s a lot of fun for her\u201d. Moggy also kept his fans on tenterhooks, saying it would be \u201cvery difficult\u201d for him to become PM as he was a \u201cfamily man<\/a>\u201d with six children. Difficult, but not impossible, was the message. Our Owen has written\u00a0a handy guide to all the Tory in-fighting<\/a>, covering all the questions you were too afraid to ask.<\/p>\n

One big question facing the Cabinet, and its Brexit sub-committee tomorrow and Thursday, is just what kind of Brexit they want. In London yesterday, Michel Barnier warned that life outside the customs union and single market would mean \u2018unavoidable\u2019 barriers to trade in goods and services. Just how big those barriers will be is the 64 billion euro question. A\u00a0senior EU official told HuffPost yesterday<\/a>\u00a0that the latest No.10 plan for a \u2018customs partnership\u2019 (seen as rather out-there when first published last year) was \u201cunrealistic\u201d. That\u2019s a polite way of saying it\u2019s bonkers. Cabinet Remainers may share that view but believe some kind of extended transition could be the solution. Brussels seems very unkeen on any such extension, however. The EU is also digging in firmly against May\u2019s suggestion that the UK should be able to treat new migrants differently during the transition. Officials believe rights, including permanent residency, are legally binding.<\/p>\n

Amber Rudd was relaxed about the various chatter over future customs deals after Brexit. She told Today: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of kicking over \u2018the\u2019, \u2018a\u2019 [customs union], \u2018partnership\u2019, \u2018arrangements\u2019, customs..all these things need to be addressed\u201d There was also a hint of movement. \u201cI hope in the next few weeks we will be able to give some clarity\u2026and reassure Nicola Sturgeon [who had said she wasn\u2019t consulted over the UK dumping any form of customs union].\u201d<\/p>\n

Labour has its own problems too on Brexit. We report\u00a0a new YouGov poll<\/a>from the pro-EU Best for Britain campaign that claims Jeremy Corbyn would haemorrhage votes to the Lib Dems should Labour embrace Brexit at the next election. It suggests Vince Cable\u2019s party would surge to 18% of the vote, while a pro-Brexit Conservative Party would lead the polls on 32% with pro-Brexit Labour trailing a distant second on 22%. Tory Remainers are desperately hoping that sometime soon Labour will seize its moment of opportunity and declare firmly for EFTA membership. They think there is a Commons majority for it and are prepared to go down fighting for one. In many ways, the ball really is in Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2. HOPES FOR WOMEN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s the centenary of the first votes for women<\/a> in the UK. Although there\u2019s a long, long way to go in the battle for equality, those who prefer to see the glass as half full will at least take some heart from the fact that a woman<\/a> Prime Minister and a woman<\/a> Tory backbencher (Soubry) are leading the political headlines.<\/p>\n

Theresa May is making a big speech in Manchester at 2pm but the policy trail overnight is she has ordered a Law Commission review of legislation on offensive online conduct, as well as new social media code of practice and an annual internet safety transparency report. The PM warned that \u2018intimidation and aggression\u2019 online was deterring many women<\/a> from public life, and on Women\u2019s Hour she points to Esther McVey and Luciana Berger as examples of abuse suffered.<\/p>\n

Last night, Stella Creasy (and John Mann)\u00a0made\u00a0a passionate plea at the PLP<\/a>\u00a0for tougher action against those who sought to harass Labour MPs and the families with sexist or anti-semitic abuse. (MPs also defended Claire Kober, the outgoing Haringey council leader, and warned against \u2018illegal\u2019 NEC instructions to town halls).<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Amber Rudd, seen by some in her party as a future PM herself, underlined her Women and Equalities Minister roles on the breakfast shows today. Aske on ITV about the millions of women<\/a> who followed Kim Kardashian online, she replied \u201cI would rather they followed me or the PM\u201d. She has a Commons statement at 12.30pm. (One MP tells me that originally there was no plan for a Commons statement to match May\u2019s speech and that Rudd was prodded into doing one. Surely that can\u2019t be right, can it?)<\/p>\n

But Brexit is never far away from any story. Labour\u2019s Jess Phillips has told the Progress podcast this morning that plans to stop domestic violence abusers from cross-examining their victims in court have been dumped because \u201cthe government doesn\u2019t have the capacity for any non-Brexit legislation.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve asked if it\u2019s coming back, and the answer is \u2018no.\u2019 There is no political capital left in the building for people to push for anything.\u201d That\u2019s another question for Rudd later. Harriet Harman has\u00a0blogged for HuffPost<\/a>, tying together the #MeToo movement and ongoing battles to fund women<\/a>\u2019s aid refuges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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3 FARAGING FOR FACTS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Anyone looking for clues to Donald Trump\u2019s tweet dissing the NHS yesterday didn\u2019t have to look far. Yes,\u00a0Nigel Farage had been on Fox News minutes before<\/a>, claiming the health service was \u201cat breaking point\u201d because of too many immigrants. And Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt found himself praised by even his political foes for his Twitter riposte to Trump, declaring \u201cI\u2019m proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage – where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was a measure of Hunt\u2019s importance in the May Cabinet that he was given free reign to publicly tweet his displeasure with the US President. Downing St later said he spoke for the entire government, saying the PM too was \u201cproud of having an NHS that is free at the point of delivery\u201d. Note however, that May decided not to herself tweet a response to Trump. No.10 simply added a fact of its own: \u201cin the recent Commonwealth Fund international survey, the NHS was rated the best in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Still, the PM\u2019s own critics were pointing out facts were not that sacred to her recently on the NHS in Wales. The\u00a0UK Statistics Authority chairman rebuked May yesterday<\/a>\u00a0for her claim in PMQs that more people waited more than 12 hours in A&E in Labour-run Wales than in England. Sir David Norgrove said her comparison was \u201cnot valid\u201d. No.10 had to say later: \u201cWe would accept the assessment of the UKSA\u201d. Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth told HuffPost that May had to now correct the record in the Commons. Will she do so in PMQs tomorrow?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BECAUSE YOU\u2019VE READ THIS FAR…<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When a car stops on a pedestrian crossing, in Britain we tend to give the driver a Paddington Bear hard stare and walk around it. Not in Honduras, where these folks just walked all over the bonnet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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4. VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If there weren\u2019t so much going on with Brexit and other rows, calls<\/a> for Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to quit would be dominating the headlines after the latest rail franchise fiasco. Grayling\u00a0told the Commons yesterday<\/a>\u00a0that failures by Virgin and Stagecoach on the East Coast mainline contract meant it could again be taken over by the public sector, less than three years after it was re-privatised.<\/p>\n

What really angered his Labour shadow Andy McDonald was that within minutes of this announcement, Grayling revealed that Virgin would be granted a further \u201cdirect award\u201d, or contract without competition, to run the lucrative InterCity West Coast service, potentially until 2020. The west coast line has consistently returned large dividends to Sir Richard Branson, who owns 51% of the joint venture, and to Stagecoach, which own 49%, topping \u00a3100m in the last two years alone. Today, public-private ventures will be under fresh attack when the joint Commons Work and Pensions and Business Select Committees hold a joint grilling of Carillion\u2019s former bosses at 9.15 a.m.\u00a0We have a new story that councils are facing a 20% rise in fees from PWC<\/a>, which is overseeing the firm\u2019s liquidation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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5. DEEP DOO-DOO<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lots of people defended the honour and integrity of the civil service last week and minister Steve Baker had to apologise for suggesting officials tried to undermine Brexit. But Jacob Rees-Mogg is not alone in refusing to apologise and now David Cameron\u2019s former policy guru Steve Hilton is the latest to claim a \u2018deep state\u2019 conspiracy by Whitehall against politicians and the people. In a blog for FoxNews (picked up by the Indy), Hilton says Tony Blair warned the Cameron transition team in 2010 to beware of the civil service.<\/p>\n

Blair allegedly told Hilton: \u201cYou cannot underestimate how much they believe it\u2019s their job to actually run the country and to resist the changes put forward by people they dismiss as \u2018here today, gone tomorrow\u2019 politicians\u2026They genuinely see themselves as the true guardians of the national interest, and think that their job is simply to wear you down and wait you out.\u201d Blair complained in 1999 about \u2018scars on my back\u2019 from Whitehall resistance to change. How ironic that his words are being cited to defend the one policy he himself wants to resist above all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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