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![Brexit secretary David Davis and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier hold a press conference in summer 2017. The next stage of negotiations will focus on transition.](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125424_1200-1024x681.jpg)
![Brexit secretary David Davis and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier hold a press conference in summer 2017. The next stage of negotiations will focus on transition.](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125424_1200-1024x681.jpg)
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!["Johnson's decision to award a regulator power over who student unions are and are not allowed to invite is diabolically stupid"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125269_1200-1024x825.png)
!["Johnson's decision to award a regulator power over who student unions are and are not allowed to invite is diabolically stupid"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125269_1200-1024x825.png)
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!["Davis could have learned a lot from them, if he'd bothered to meet them."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123787_1200-1024x613.jpg)
!["Davis could have learned a lot from them, if he'd bothered to meet them."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123787_1200-1024x613.jpg)
He is supposed to be fighting for their interests but he won’t even speak to them
!["If anyone can work out why we are behaving in this extraordinary way, please let us know."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123882_1200-1024x678.jpg)
!["If anyone can work out why we are behaving in this extraordinary way, please let us know."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123882_1200-1024x678.jpg)
Leaving the customs union involves an awful lot of pain and absolutely no gain
![Stephen Barclay, Liz Truss, Mel Stride and Andrew Jones leave Philip Hammond with his red box outside 11 Downing Street this morning.](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124859_1200-1024x631.jpg)
![Stephen Barclay, Liz Truss, Mel Stride and Andrew Jones leave Philip Hammond with his red box outside 11 Downing Street this morning.](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124859_1200-1024x631.jpg)
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!["It's worth noting May's instinctive reaction to trouble: she retreats quickly to her Brexit support base"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124731_1200-1024x681.jpg)
!["It's worth noting May's instinctive reaction to trouble: she retreats quickly to her Brexit support base"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124731_1200-1024x681.jpg)
!["What we are seeing is a disturbing pattern of behaviour where misleading statements are issued to the public on a regular basis"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124699_1200-1024x671.jpg)
!["What we are seeing is a disturbing pattern of behaviour where misleading statements are issued to the public on a regular basis"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124699_1200-1024x671.jpg)
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!["In each aspect of government activity you see the same attribute: the requirement of survival above all else"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123301_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["In each aspect of government activity you see the same attribute: the requirement of survival above all else"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123301_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["The Fallon resignation came as government resistance against the release of the infamous Brexit impact reports collapsed"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124635_1200-772x1024.jpg)
!["The Fallon resignation came as government resistance against the release of the infamous Brexit impact reports collapsed"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124635_1200-772x1024.jpg)
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![Davis: Plans for no-deal hit a logical obstacle](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123613_1200-1024x731.jpg)
!["It was clear all along that Article 50, with its crippling timetable and emphasis on the European block's decision-making powers, was in Brussels' interests"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124531_1200-1024x674.jpg)
!["It was clear all along that Article 50, with its crippling timetable and emphasis on the European block's decision-making powers, was in Brussels' interests"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124531_1200-1024x674.jpg)
!["It's hard to match up the seriousness of what is happening here with the form it is communicated"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14118860_1200-1024x700.jpg)
!["It's hard to match up the seriousness of what is happening here with the form it is communicated"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14118860_1200-1024x700.jpg)
He is supposed to be fighting for their interests but he won’t even speak to them
Leaving the customs union involves an awful lot of pain and absolutely no gain