It’s not even a joke that we really had a ministry of Brexit opportunities that shut down because no one could think of anything. That really happened. Foreseen by Monty Python years before of course.

Forgotten just how good this was - "This Putin loving free speech imposter"👏 Farage avoids scrutiny like this at all costs. Looks at his face, wishing somebody would step in & save him He was the same on James O'Brien years ago. O'Brien keeps asking him to go back on. Coward.

Yes, Joey. She’s a democratically elected British MP, a former council leader, and she’s wearing a hijab. Which part of that do you find so difficult to accept? Her politics are fair game. Her religion and her clothes are not.

Former Head of MI6 Sir John Sawers, "Russia was very keen that the Leave campaign should succeed and that Britain should leave the European Union" "Because that would marginalise Britain as a global player and weaken Europe in general" "That's the strategic opportunity the Russians spotted, and the leaders of the Leave campaign fell into it" My view: Former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers says Russia saw Brexit as a way to weaken Britain and divide Europe, and that the Leave campaign’s leaders walked straight into the opportunity. So let’s remember who sold it: VOTE LEAVE • Boris Johnson — political figurehead • Michael Gove and Gisela Stuart — campaign committee co-convenors • Matthew Elliott — chief executive • Dominic Cummings — campaign director • Daniel Hannan — leading Brexit advocate • Priti Patel, Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, John Whittingdale and Theresa Villiers — senior Conservative campaigners • David Davis, Liam Fox, Dominic Raab, Steve Baker and Douglas Carswell — prominent Leave campaigners LEAVE. EU • Nigel Farage — leading political figure • Arron Banks — co-chairman and major funder • Andy Wigmore — communications director GRASSROOTS OUT / LABOUR LEAVE • Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove — Grassroots Out co-founders • Kate Hoey — Grassroots Out co-founder and Labour Leave campaigner • Graham Stringer, Kelvin Hopkins and Roger Godsiff — Labour Leave campaigners • Sammy Wilson — prominent DUP Leave campaigner They promised Brexit would make Britain stronger. Sawers says Russia saw the opposite opportunity: a Britain marginalised and a Europe weakened.

Thankyou ! Thankyou ! Thankyou ! Thankyou ! for someone finally making this point after 10 years ! "If we were allowed to vote, all the British citizens living in Europe - in Brexit, a vote directly affecting us - maybe Brexit wouldn't have gone through" @bbcquestiontime

🚨 The Brexit we voted for wasn’t delivered” rather proves the problem. Which Brexit? There was never one agreed model on the ballot, just “Leave”, onto which millions projected very different expectations. Ten years later, every failure can be explained away by saying the real Brexit was never tried. Meanwhile the EU hasn’t “crumbled”. Britain is still trying to renegotiate access to the market and political system we were told we no longer needed. At some point Brexit has to be judged by the Brexit that actually exists, not the imaginary one that can never fail.

Are you implying that Question Time is anti-Brexit? The show that Farage has appeared 38 times on, more than almost anyone else in the history of the show.

We didn't accept the result because the whole thing was a shitshow. Leave had no plan, but the hard Brexit that was foisted on us was never on the table before the vote. As for the mythical perfect Brexit that wasn't delivered, it doesn't exist! It was always doomed to fail.

Re-evaluating decisions is a good thing, the referendum was advisory and the result accepted. It makes absolute sense that if it's a steaming pile of regretful shit for all but a few corporations and insiders that we can change our mind based on new info. THAT is freedom, that is DEMOCRACY.

According to the wife of Johnson’s fellow campaign figurehead, Michael Gove, Johnson made the final momentous decision to join the Leave campaign at a dinner with Evgeny Lebedev

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered." This is arguably the greatest scandal of modern British politics. The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole". Successive British governments including Starmer's covered up the extent of Russian interference in the most important vote in modern British history. Andy Burnham has had the courage to put an end to this cover-up. But he must go further than a statement. He must set up an inquiry to expose the truth about Russian interference before and after the Brexit referendum and about the subsequent cover-up. But the main Russian interference in Brexit took place in plain sight. It was Russia's promotion of Farage on Russian TV, a level of coverage which would have required Kremlin authorisation. It cannot be doubted that Moscow saw Farage aa a useful asset, and I am sure that he has more than fulfilled their expectations.

Leave voters secured none of promises of lower migration, lower prices, cost savings delivering lower taxes, ability to return irreg migrants or deport criminals. EU more democratic than UK (FPTP, Lords, unelected monarch) with PR, confirmation hearings in EP, oversight of EC etc

This intervention👇 is significant bc Sir Richard Moore is not making the narrow ministerial argument about whether Russia changed the result. He is saying he is very confident Russia would have tried to interfere, bc exploiting divisive political issues is a standard Russian intelligence tactic. He told Andrew Marr that he would actually be surprised if there had been no Russian activity around Brexit. 🔥 That directly undermines Farage’s absolute claim that “there was no Russian interference.” Moore’s position is much closer to Burnham’s: Russian activity is entirely plausible and, in his view, highly likely; the much harder question is whether anyone can measure its effect on the vote.

Who elected you?

It’s not just the government that covered up Russian interference in Brexit. The press also played its part. This is one of the only times I was ever interviewed on the subject… by US media.

This needs to be on tv, streaming services and radio

You disgusting cancerous, rotten, immoral corpses. @carolecadwalla was citing Russian involvement and ended up in court with nonsupport from the British Government. What did you know? @theresa_may @BorisJohnson @David_Cameron @RishiSunak @trussliz

This woman is 104 years old. She’s seen 18 presidents in her life. Listen to what she says about Trump.

Watch how uncomfortable Reform UK’s Jaymey McIvor is as his entire argument and party’s strategy is dismantled right in from of him @McivorJaymey

It was clear at the time that many MPs didn't understand the EU, how the CU worked etc. I seem to remember Teresa May hadn't realised that ending FOM ended our FOM too.