Thread by @Usherwood

Quick reminder that May's priority will be staunching #Windrush, even if that incurs collateral costs on #Brexit

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Problem will come in next month, when HMG has to advance alternative plans for Irish dimension, but May finds herself less able to move Cabinet

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Javid makes sense as Home Sec in #Windrush context, but doesn't help Brexit agenda, having neither Rudd's vigour nor the same confidence of May (yet)

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Problem is compounded by likely raised demands from EU on EU citizen rights post-March 2019, just as HMG less able/willing to shift on basic 'hostile environment' approach

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For long time, May was able to use long HO experience as basic for political credibility, but now it's coming to bite her (as was always likely to happen)

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In sum, UK continues to see Brexit only through lens of domestic politics, to its cost

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