More details on Geoffrey Cox's approach from Tom Newton Dunn of Times Radio in this tweet thread
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Cox has been in repeated contact with No10 and the PM, and spoke to Boris Johnson personally today to ask him to go down the dispute resolution route. The PM refused. Cox will abstain at 2nd reading and then vote against the bill at every other stage unless PM changes his mind.
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https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/stat...50002885804032
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Do all EU countries operate on equal terms with each other? Of course not. Are you going to compare Romania(or anywhere else) with Germany? Any "equality" is because Germany sets it's OWN rules, and then forces the EU to follow suit.
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I don't have time to correct everything in this post today but suffice to say one country doesn't have the kind of absolute power over the EU you pretend it does.
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Originally Posted by Chris
For all his fine words, he appears to have voted with the government on the Finance Act 2013 at every stage. This piece of legislation similarly breached international treaty in certain very specific ways
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Channel 4 have factchecked that particular claim - made originally by the hapless Brandon Lewis - and found it to be incorrect.
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And when the 2013 Act was still a draft bill, a senior HMRC official told the Select Committee on Economic Affairs: “we believe that the GAAR does not override our international obligations. […] We really do not see that there is an issue there.”
So at the time they were voting on it, MPs were assured by the government that passing the legislation would not breach international commitments.
That’s a very different situation to the one the current crop find themselves in today, with the government making no bones about the fact that their plans would do just that.
The actual question of whether the 2013 Finance Act did violate international treaties is a little more complicated. In short, the answer appears to be that it did not.
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https://www.channel4.com/news/factch...seem-to-add-up