David Gauke

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@LeeHow14 Some in the Gauke household are more upset by this than others. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NeilDotObrien: @timothy_stanley Are you seriously trying to tell me the paper has no line on this? What a joke. I'm not asking for a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Gilesyb: I can understand there being different views on lockdowns etc when the evidence was new and fast evolving What I don't get is… — PolitiTweet.org

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So it won’t be possible to watch the cricket on Sky Go whilst on holiday in the EU? There are bigger issues but if true that’s very annoying. — PolitiTweet.org

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@whittaker_hr @PBottomleyMP @IainDale I confess I didn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dominating the world? Someone else has been playing Risk this Christmas. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@neildotobrien has been consistently thoughtful and informative on the pandemic. Well worth following. — PolitiTweet.org

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It is brave of a serving Conservative MP to make these points about the Telegraph’s COVID coverage. But he’s spot on. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @prospect_uk: "Had Remain won, maybe Boris Johnson might have become Prime Minister two years earlier." @DavidGauke and @RSylvesterTime… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @s8mb: Good question @allisonpearson! What did they do in China and Wuhan that has allowed them to get back to normal? https://t.co/oLOt… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlexDean94: "Had Remain won, maybe Boris Johnson might have become Prime Minister two years earlier" Fun thought experiment from @RSyl… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Samfr: Right time for predictions for 2021. I do this every January 1st and last year’s were pretty much all correct. So it’s all downh… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @prospect_clark: So what if Remain had just edged it? Things would be nothing like as different as you might think... https://t.co/fii… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @prospect_clark: Talking to insiders like @DavidGauke & @CraigOliver100, @RSylvesterTimes convincingly explains how - Bo Jo would be in… — PolitiTweet.org

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Why does this matter? As the new UK/EU relationship develops, we could approach each area of potential cooperation through the lens of ‘sovereignty’ (confused though that may be) or by pragmatically assessing the benefits of increased cooperation vs the costs of reduced autonomy. — PolitiTweet.org

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A very good explanation of why it is very hard to argue that the terms of the Trade & Cooperation Agreement is compatible with the UK having ‘sovereignty’ but that membership of the EU is incompatible. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BBCSteveR: Did you know that the Russian for Yabba dabba doo is Ябба-дабба-ду? And now, here’s the Flintstones theme tune with a Russia… — PolitiTweet.org

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@benhabib6 It’s why the ERG lawyers struggled to come up with a test whereby EU membership doesn’t give us sovereignty but the TCA does. — PolitiTweet.org

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@benhabib6 It will help us to move on if we have a sensible understanding of ‘sovereignty’. All agreements involve rights & obligations. I think rational people can disagree on how deep one wants our relationship to be. But a binary test of whether we have ‘sovereignty’ or not is unhelpful. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RaoulRuparel: On the day DUP voted against the deal, it is worth briefly remembering how, after voting for Brexit, they have managed to… — PolitiTweet.org

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@benhabib6 My point is that if we want to do things differently, we should make a rational choice based on costs & benefits. On that basis, I think it was a mistake to vote to leave the EU - but you won. What are your suggestions for where the benefits of divergence outweigh the costs? — PolitiTweet.org

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.... then we're into a world of trade-offs and assessing costs and benefits not abstract principles. Let's hope the future relationship with the EU is characterised by a rational assessment of the costs & benefits of closer co-operation vs divergence. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS The problem for the ERG is that the absolutist position on 'sovereignty' ('we can't be a party to an agreement that prevents us doing what we want') makes any agreement impossible. There's a case to be made for a looser relationship (fewer rights, few obligations) but ... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mrjamesob: In other words, under the definition of sovereignty that justifies Brexit for the ERG there was never any need for Brexit. E… — PolitiTweet.org

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But as the ex-Head of the Government Legal Service points out, these tests are compatible with membership of the EU. After all the country has gone through in the last 5 years, under the tests the ERG are using, it turns out we were always sovereign. 2/2 https://t.co/JQHwRT6JRN — PolitiTweet.org

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We've been told many times that Brexit was about 'sovereignty'. The ERG has concluded that the Trade & Cooperation Agreement delivers sovereignty because Parliament can choose to break its obligations under the TCA & the UK can give notice of termination of the agreement. 1/2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidallengreen: Amusing that same analysis of European Research Group 'Star Chamber' of lawyers approving the Trade and Relationship A… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jillongovt: PM being genuinely disingenuous on his fishing agreement.. the truth is that the 25% returned at the end of the transition… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SirJJQC: Of course the UK could always "choose" to break the terms of the agreement and take the consequences (legal, reputational etc)… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GeorgeBull_: Those days are being swept away by the antithesis of frictionless trade. In the beckoning sunlit uplands the additional co… — PolitiTweet.org