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That full Diane Abbott quote at Shadow Cabinet according to one in the room was: “The PLP were in the tea room and my office crying about an election saying Jeremy should stand down in 2017. So frankly the PLP can go fuck themselves."

— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) October 28, 2019

Downing Street had said it planned to call for a 12 December general election in its one-line bill, but a No 10 source said on Tuesday it would be prepared to accept an amendment, if proposed by the Lib Dems and SNP, for an election one day earlier, on 11 December.

A Lib Dem source said they had not been directly approached by the government, but would be willing to consider the 11 December date. The SNP said no decision had yet been taken.

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THREAD: 1/10 Dispatches has found that secret meetings have taken place between senior civil servants and representatives of US pharmaceutical firms where the price the NHS pays for its drugs has been discussed.

2/10 A source with knowledge of the trade talks told Dispatches that British trade negotiators have already held six official meetings with their US counterparts to talk about what might be in any trade deal.

3/10 Precise details of what has been discussed has been kept strictly confidential. But a Whitehall source has told us that drug pricing has been on the table in all six meetings.

4/10 The source told Dispatches how US drugs firms have been given direct access to British trade officials.

5/10 Dispatches has been told that as well as meeting with the US government, senior British trade officials have held face-to-face meetings with representatives of US drug firms, none of which have been declared.

6/10 Our source also told us that there have been five secret meetings between senior British civil servants and the US pharma industry. Two in Washington and three in London.

7/10 The most recent being in August after Boris Johnson had become Prime Minister. The source told us that drug “price caps” were discussed in at least one of these meetings.

8/10 We asked the Department for International Trade for a response on what we’ve discovered.

9/10 They said: “The sustainability of the NHS is an absolute priority for the government. We could not agree to any proposals or medicines pricing or access that would put NHS finances at risk or reduce clinician and patient choice.”

10/10 On Dispatches, we discover how the President’s allies and US drug giants want to force the NHS to pay more for US medicines.

"General elections are not a democratically legitimate way of resolving a binary issue like Brexit"

Labour's Ben Bradshaw says "a great many" of his colleagues could vote against holding an election in Decemberhttps://t.co/Vyw9nO7khU pic.twitter.com/Qk2T9jENVd

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 29, 2019

Gargantua wrote:

Downing Street had said it planned to call for a 12 December general election in its one-line bill, but a No 10 source said on Tuesday it would be prepared to accept an amendment, if proposed by the Lib Dems and SNP, for an election one day earlier, on 11 December.

A Lib Dem source said they had not been directly approached by the government, but would be willing to consider the 11 December date. The SNP said no decision had yet been taken.

sa 9. se pomerili na 11, napredak
to su sreda i četvrtak, koja je jebena razlika.

rumbeando wrote:

"General elections are not a democratically legitimate way of resolving a binary issue like Brexit"

Labour's Ben Bradshaw says "a great many" of his colleagues could vote against holding an election in Decemberhttps://t.co/Vyw9nO7khU pic.twitter.com/Qk2T9jENVd

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 29, 2019

Senior Labour figure tells me: don’t assume this election is definitely on. Big push by some Labour whips for party to vote against programme motion, hoping that Boris Johnson would pull the bill at that point

— Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) October 29, 2019

otto katz wrote:kakvu svijet nije vidio.

MPs have passed a proposal which makes it easier for them to alter the Government's election bill which could pave the way for under 18s or EU citizens to have a vote.
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The Government had wanted to prevent MPs from tabling their own amendments to the Bill as there were suggestions they could use it to drastically alter election rules.

But it was defeated in a Commons vote on the matter, with MPs supporting a plan put forward by Labour MP Stella Creasy by 312 votes to 295, majority 17.
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This will allow MPs to add their own changes to the bill which could set out a specific date for the poll or extend voting rights to younger people or EU nationals.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will cancel plans to hold a snap election if parliament votes to lower the voting age or allows European Union citizens to vote because this will mean a six-month delay, his political spokesman said.

otto katz wrote:Morat će ih u nekom trenutku EU gurnuti s litice, inače će brexitirati do sudnjeg dana.

Bumped into Dominic Cummings.

Me: Ready for the campaign Mr Cummings?
DC: We’re not going to have one.
Me: Really?
DC: They’ll vote for EU citizens and we’ll have to pull it.#Brexit | GE19

— Joe Pike (@joepike) October 29, 2019