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- It's gonna be mad when Marcus Rashford convinces the UK government to pursue close regulatory alignment with the EU
- “I don’t know where he’s been for the past two years,” says the PM of Starmer “Not at your parties” shouts a Labour MP
- This piece from August, which accused Sunak of “desperate” warnings about what Truss policies could do to the £, is doing the rounds among Conservative MPs, I’m told. Tory source: "Those who only backed Liz for their career are quickly realising the consequences of their actions”
- New: More major UK supermarkets join Aldi and Waitrose in pledging to never stock chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef M&S, Sainsbury's and The Co-op all tell me they will not sell these products, regardless of any UK-US free trade deal
- Laughter from MPs as Michael Gove says: “Transparency drives everything this government does”
- Jess Phillips to Diane Abbott just now: "As much as we want an election, I want to be a size 10 but I keep eating cake. You don't just get what you want. An election is not what's in front of us. Brexit is the thing that is in front of us. We have to show courage & leadership."
- A senior Conservative MP who hadn’t submitted a letter to Sir Graham Brady despite their concerns with the PM, now has, they tell me
- Senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says government should mitigate the cost of living by rejoining the single market (Norway model) Brexit isn't what "most people imagined" & "sector after sector" is "strangled by the red tape we were supposed to escape from" politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
- Christ Big Jet TV feels about four years ago doesn’t it
- Tory MPs who want Johnson out have this weekend been circulating a briefing document setting out why. It warns the party is on course to lose the next election & concludes “the only way to end this misery, earn a hearing from the British public… is to remove Boris Johnson as PM”
- Rachel Reeves shouts "what have you done to this place?" at Tory MPs as the Lindsay Hoyle announces that Leadsom's announcement has passed
- I'm told Wendy Morton walked into the corridor shouting "I'm no longer the chief whip" moments before the fracking vote took place, with Liz Truss just metres away
