http://dagblog.com/link/brexit-and-eu-summit-live-coverage-29320 Comments for "Brexit and EU summit: live coverage" en http://dagblog.com/comment/272491#comment-272491 <a id="comment-272491"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/brexit-and-eu-summit-live-coverage-29320">Brexit and EU summit: live coverage</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">BREAKING: The British Pound is falling after Boris Johnson's allies say they cannot back deal being negotiated with the EU</p> — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) <a href="https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1184715774172073986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:16:07 +0000 artappraiser comment 272491 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/272490#comment-272490 <a id="comment-272490"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/brexit-and-eu-summit-live-coverage-29320">Brexit and EU summit: live coverage</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Lots of interesting news bits here, one recent that caught my eye, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/oct/17/eu-leaders-gather-for-summit-as-boris-johnson-scrambles-to-get-backing-for-brexit-deal-politics-live?page=with:block-5da7fe888f08953f46853424#block-5da7fe888f08953f46853424">42 mins. ago:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>For those of you who missed this, late last night Louise Ellman, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, announced she was leaving the Labour Party because she could “no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM”.</p> <p>Dame Louise, 73, who is Jewish, said she had been “deeply troubled” by the “growth of anti-Semitism” in Labour in recent years.</p> <p>She told the Times newspaper that if he became prime minister “I believe that Jeremy Corbyn would be a danger to the country, a danger to the Jewish community as well, but a danger to the country too”. [....]</p> </blockquote> <p>followed by her tweeted announcement</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:14:11 +0000 artappraiser comment 272490 at http://dagblog.com