He needs to come up with a better name though.

It's a shame there isn't a way to vote for leaving this group.

Maliexit

He sends 350 million pictures of Julia Bradbury a week. Let's send them to the NHS instead.

Meanwhile, Brexit Secretary David Davis has accused Mr Corbyn of selling "snake oil".

Barry Gardiner was, once again, useless on R4 talking about this . Wholly unconvincing.

This must be the only Department in history that underspends its budget not by a couple of percentage points, but by 50% in its first year, and it has had to go to the Treasury to scale down its estimates of spending in the next financial year.

Foreign secretary compares crossing Irish border to travelling from Westminster to Camden

Boris Johnson appears to have told the Prime Minister "it is wrong to see the task as maintaining 'no border'" on the island of Ireland after Brexit - and that the Government's task will be to "stop this border becoming significantly harder".

The major leak from the Cabinet's Brexit deliberations on the highly contentious Irish border is included in a letter passed to Sky News.

Its revelation has prompted calls for Theresa May to consider the position of her Foreign Secretary.

Writing to the Prime Minister, Mr Johnson also seeks to play down the "exaggerated impression" of "how important checks are" at EU external borders.

He also goes as far as contemplating a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, writing: "Even if a hard border is reintroduced, we would expect to see 95% + of goods pass the border [without] checks."


It suggests a significant downgrading of expectations about the change to the Irish border as a result of the Government's Brexit strategy and Mrs May's plan to leave the EU's single market and customs union.

As recently as November last year, the Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons: "There can be no return to a hard border. There can be no hard border.

"That would be unthinkable, and it would be economic and political madness".

In February 2016, ahead of the EU referendum, Mr Johnson promised the Irish border would be "absolutely unchanged".

It can be real pain otherwise, as the people of Camden know.

Hello! Wotcha, me old china!

I'm now picturing Boris Johnson and Liam Fox demonstrating their vision for Ireland's future by dressing as leprechauns and hopping backwards and forwards across the border.

I fear we will be weaker and less prosperous – as a country and as individuals. And – although it grieves me to admit it – our divorce from Europe will diminish our international stature. Indeed, it already has.

Twitter is the worst medium

Feex.

Vine wants a chat.

Vine wants a chat.

Double-Feex.

The US is offering Britain a worse “Open Skies” deal after Brexit than it had as an EU member, in a negotiating stance that would badly hit the transatlantic operating rights of British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

British and American negotiators secretly met in January for the first formal talks on a new air services deal, aiming to fill the gap created when Britain falls out of the EU-US open skies treaty after Brexit, according to people familiar with talks.

In a sign of the battle Britain faces to replicate its existing rights, the talks were cut short after US negotiators offered standard bilateral conditions that would reduce access and in effect exclude all main UK-based carriers because they would not meet the criteria for ownership and control.

One person attending the London meetings to “put Humpty Dumpty back together” said: “You can’t just scratch out ‘EU’ and put in ‘UK’.” A British official said it showed “the squeeze” London will face as it tries to reconstruct its international agreements after Brexit, even with close allies such as Washington.

Negotiators are confident of an eventual agreement to keep open the busy UK-US routes, which account for more than a third of current transatlantic flight traffic. But there are legal and political obstacles that could impede the two sides from reaching a deal in time to give legal certainty to airlines booking flights a year in advance.

Did you see the stuff about the US airline deal? Another little taster of how we’re going to get pantsed by all the bigger boys in the schoolyard.

Another little taster of how we’re going to get pantsed by all the bigger boys in the schoolyard.

It’s a rare FT story that lies outside the paywall too.

It doesn’t. You can defeat it by googling the headline and using the Amp link.