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Quite a few suggestions for a title for David Cameron’s memoirs, both here and on the original post.
Some are more - ahem - meaty than others, but I’ve put together a selection of the more palatable offerings for you to vote on.
I’m not sure how many of these have any chance of being the actual title.
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Joris Luyendijk, former writer of the Guardian’s banking blog, has written a very interesting column on the Guardian’s exclusive from earlier this week. It begins:
When the Guardian reported this week that Theresa May had privately made a passionate case for Britain’s continued membership of the EU shortly before the referendum, it didn’t look great. The problem wasn’t her opinion: she was saying the sort of things a member of the remain campaign was supposed to. The problem was that she wasn’t doing so in public – and the audience for her secret pitch was a select group of bankers from Goldman Sachs.
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Is it possible to boil down a prime minster’s character to the title of his or her memoirs? Tony Blair and Gordon Brown certainly both had a go, with post-prime ministerial books titled A Journey and Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization respectively.
It’s David Cameron’s turn next.
As well as mulling over a name for Cameron’s book, any recommendations for past prime ministerial memoirs that are worth reading? Drop them in the comments below.
What was intended as a referendum on Heathrow expansion is instead being seen by many as a moment to fight back against Brexit, argues Neal Lawson in the New Statesman.
Ukip’s Nigel Farage has backed the former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith’s campaign to win back his Richmond Park seat as an independent, Goldsmith having resigned after Tuesday’s Heathrow announcement. Ukip join the Conservatives in not fielding a candidate against Goldsmith, whose main rival is the Lib Dems’ Sarah Olney.
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Should Remain voters 'mobilise' against Brexit?
Some views on Blair’s intervention:
I don't see anyone else standing up for the 48%.So good on him about time better than walking into the nightmare of Brexit..
Thank God for Tony Blair someone to stand up and say we are not having this Brexit is a disaster .I am hoping he starts a political party that offers hope of reversing the vote.He can count on my vote..
Tony Blair tells remain voters to mobilise against Brexit
They already did. It was called the referendum. Remainers lost.
Since we’re discussing the issue, I’ve put together a little poll:
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Any links of interest, do share them below the line.
With Tony Blair urging Remainers to organise their opposition to Brexit, regular commenter fripouille contrasts this intervention with John McDonnell’s warnings of a “banker’s Brexit”
Guardian contributor John McDonnell might talk tough, but he is supporting the Tories on Brexit
It is quite rare to hear a senior politician talk as much gibberish as John McDonnell did on the Today programme this morning. In advance of his speech on preventing a 'bankers' Brexit', he tried to outline his thinking on the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Even someone with a PhD in European politics would have been unable to decipher it. It was self-interested, disingenuous hogwash of the highest order.
Nail, head.
Readers below the line has been discussing Iain Duncan Smith’s appearance on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, ahead of an intervention on universal credits.
Damien Gayle has the details:
Andrew isn’t writing his usual Politics Live blog today so, as an alternative, here’s Politics Live: readers’ edition. It is intended to be a place where you can catch up with the latest news and find links to good politics blogs and articles on the web.
Please feel free to use this as somewhere you can comment on any of the day’s political stories – just as you do during the daily blog. It would be particularly useful for readers to flag up new material in the comments – breaking news or blogposts or tweets that are worth passing on because someone is going to find them interesting.
All today’s Guardian politics stories are here.
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Shaky start for the Lib Dems in Richmond Park
BMG tel poll of the constituency:-
Goldsmith leads by 27%
Goldsmith (Ind) 56%
Olney (Lib Dem) 29%
Lib Dems may have been little presumptuous re: their chances there.
Or maybe they feel their camaign could gather pace.