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ChukaUmunna
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Managing Director, Head of EMEA ESG & Green Economy Investment Banking @JPMorgan | Views my own
Sep 2, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s latest Brexit shambles from the Government - plastered over the papers and on display on broadcast - is merely the latest panicked response to the momentum generated this summer by the campaign for a People's Vote on any Brexit deal #PeoplesVote /1 This week politicians return to Westminster and we are no nearer to any deal at all but the ground has shifted since they went on holiday. All summer long the impetus has shifted across the country towards the #PeoplesVote campaign. /2
Aug 16, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I stand by what I've said on racism in the Labour Party and won't be bullied into silence, not least because my family have experienced racism too. Jeremy Corbyn himself has said it is a problem Labour has not properly dealt with. If Len McCluskey doesn't like that, so be it. /1 Len McCluskey asks for "serious evidence" of institutional discrimination in the Labour Party against Jewish people - I set out in detail why it is wholly justified to reach this conclusion many weeks ago here independent.co.uk/voices/labour-… /2
Aug 12, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Major new ⁦@BestForBritain⁩ analysis in today’s Observer shows most constituencies now have majority who want to Remain /1 theguardian.com/politics/2018/… The @BestForBritain analysis finds that 112 constituencies have switched from Leave to Remain. It suggests there are now 341 seats with majority Remain support, up from 229 seats at the referendum. /2
Jun 20, 2018 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: Today's events in Westminster - which relate to the process and not the substance of Brexit - do not change the fundamental mess and chaos of Brexit. The UK is heading for a bad Brexit deal but its not a done deal - a lot will happen between now and the Autumn. /1 Its disappointing the so called "Grieve 2" amendment did not pass this afternoon (I,of course, voted for it) but significant that Ministers were forced to climb down and issue a statement acknowledging Parliament's vital role at the end of the process. /2
Jun 17, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is simply not true - if the executive can’t command a majority in the House of Commons, you can’t govern. It’s been that way since the last century. It’s called parliamentary democracy! The more I think about this, the more ridiculous this claim by the PM seems. She clearly does not understand the UK’s, albeit unwritten, constitution. Parliament acts as a check and balance on the executive, not a rubber stamp. This is not a dictatorship.
Jun 15, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Dominic Grieve’s ‘meaningful vote’ amendment as tabled in the Lords by Lord Hailsham. Be in no doubt- if the Govt renege on their promise to adopt its principles, this will pass in the Lords on Monday and we’ll have the numbers to pass it in the Commons afterwards #Simples What is going on is very straightforward: the hard right of the Tory party want the Govt to have a passport to crash out of the EU with no deal if Parliament rejects the Brexit deal - the PM, their hostage, doesn’t have the numbers in the Commons for this #EUWithdrawalBill
Jun 12, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: The resignation of a Government minister who has immediately gone on to endorse a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal is a hugely significant moment. (1) Brexit will affect generations for generations. Brexit is going badly not just because of incompetence but because it is impossible to deliver in the form it was promised, and it is the people of Britain who will suffer the consequences. (2)
May 1, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thread: A trade deal with the US on the day we leave the EU was apparently going to be the great prize of Brexit. But even Liam Fox knows he can no longer hide the reality. news.sky.com/story/liam-fox… (1) Any trade deal with the US will in fact take years to negotiate, and the talks are yet to even begin. (2)
Mar 27, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Today, Jacob Rees-Mogg, a man who grew up in extremely privileged circumstances, accused my constituents and anybody who opposes his extreme Brexit plans of being "cave-dwellers". /1 My constituents, many of whom live in difficult circumstances, are not "cave-dwellers" or a "liberal elite" for opposing Brexit. They share the same challenges affecting areas that votes to leave, including child poverty and job insecurity. /2
Mar 25, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: There inevitably will be those that jump to defend and who declare this issue is being ‘weaponised’ to attack @jeremycorbyn. But every @UKLabour member should be deeply ashamed that it has come to this. /1 If you are incapable of seeing that @UKLabour has a problem with anti-semitism, you really should not be in our party. We are not a personality cult, we are a party that is supposed to stand against hatred and racism. It’s about time we lived up to our values. /2
Mar 16, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: @CommonsNIAC including 3 DUP MPs says it “was unable to identify any border solution currently in operation across the globe that would enable physical infrastructure to be avoided” given the Govt decision to leave the Customs Union & Single Mkt parliament.uk/business/commi… The @CommonsNIAC said the Govt “will not have the time to implement a new non-visible customs regime before withdrawal day” on the Irish border...
Feb 28, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This was a hugely significant intervention from the Brixton-born former PM Sir John Major. Utterly damning of this government and its Brexit strategy. The people have every right to have a vote on the Brexit deal. 1/ As John Major said, the vote in 2016 gave the government a mandate to begin negotiations, but "not any Brexit; not at all costs; and certainly not on any terms." 2/
Feb 20, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Thread: David Davis insists that Brexit won’t mean a race to the bottom on everything from workers’ rights to environmental standards but not everyone around the Cabinet table agrees with him. 1/ Theresa May has repeatedly failed to rule out scrapping working time regulations, Boris Johnson wants to get rid of the Social Chapter and Liam Fox says he’s in favour of importing chlorinated chicken from the United States. 2/
Jan 24, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thread: David Davis today backtracked more times than a mountaineer who has no map, no compass and no idea where he's going. 1/ He admitted he was wrong to promise the UK would have dozens of free trade deals ready to come into force on the day we leave the EU. 2/
Dec 7, 2017 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: While the government has been treating Parliament with contempt over its now apparent lack of Brexit impact assessments, the Lords EU Committee has been doing its job for them, investigating the impact a No Deal would have on the UK. 1/ In particular, the evidence of John Foster of the @CBItweets should alarm anybody about the consequences of a No Deal. Here's what he warned falling back on to WTO terms would mean. 2/
Nov 22, 2017 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: The stats behind the #Budget2017 spin. GDP revised down by an average of 0.4% a year. Earnings growth revised down by an average of 0.5% every year. Productivity growth revised down by an average of 0.7% a year. 1/ Why the downgrades? This is from OBR: "The fall in the pound that followed the EU referendum has pushed up consumer price inflation and squeezed households' real incomes and spending" 2/
Oct 8, 2017 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: There's nothing inevitable about Brexit - the British people have the right to change their mind if Brexit is not what was promised The Govt has commissioned secret legal advice that says if the UK wishes to revoke Article 50 it is free to do so theguardian.com/politics/2017/… /2