[mattomac]

The Tories want a target apparently I assume it’s a thick attempt at a trap, then again Labour have demostrated themselves to very good at falling for that.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This does seem like an odd subject for Opposition Day.

[mattomac]

This does seem like an odd subject for Opposition Day.

Only the terminally twitter could come up with this.

[Tubby Isaacs]

She's got the "when Labour negotiates Britain loses" soundbite from the Chagos Islands that needs re-using.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There's no coming back from this for Labour. Their deal fails some tests Kemi pulled out of her arse.

But nice to see doing more of that straight talking she's famous for.

Q: Will you reverse this?

Badenoch says, although there are some positive things in the deal, overall it is problematic.

Anything that brings back European court of justice jurisdiction is unacceptable, she says.

She says she ended ECJ jurisdiction. She cannot believe it is coming back.

So not scrapping then? Keeping and moaning about it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What does this even mean?

We want Defence linked to it. It's one of our strongest sectors and should be booming soon.

Badenoch says trade deals should reduce barriers to trade.

But she says she does not approve of the way the EU linked different issues.

Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, says she does not see way the EU was allowed to link issues like defence and fishing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What's the logic of this? They should have gone away and come back tmrw to do Defence? Kemi gets a better deal by what? Telling the EU they can't discuss stuff of mutual interest?

[Tubby Isaacs]

One of Kemi's red lines was not paying new money into EU funds. I assume this is referring to Defence. She's going to pass up the chance of all that extra high value trade over paying an admin fee?

That's absolutely mad.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Theresa May called. She wants her 2017 soundbites back. About all we're missing is "no deal is better than a bad deal". (To May's credit, she did move on from those to be a decent negotiator).

£9bn actually doesn't sound like much for a deal where there's so much trade. I wonder if she's walked into a trap here- OBR in the Autumn scores it and adds a couple of billion on the top? That might imply a level of comms genius we haven't seen so far, but I wonder? The Leader of the Opposition replies to the Budget. Could be a nice line for Reeves.

Badenoch says she is not persuaded by the government claim that this will be worth £9bn. She says the UK is a services economy. This deal does not help with services, she says.

She says she never signed a deal as business secretary that took the UK backwards. She was willing to walk away.

But Keir Starmer is never prepared to walk away, she says.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This might be Christopher Hope lying, but it seems Kemi has decided that "straight talking" is indeed the best policy. Running on trade friction may not be a winner for the party of business. Keep this up and they could add the likes of Beaconsfield, Windsor and Sevenoaks to Ed Davey's column.

[mattomac]

Well she’s probably thick enough to do so.

Of course I’m not sure how she becomes PM.

[kreuzberger]

She is as thick as mince and doesn't realise that "the wrong side of history" is a reference to the future. That's fine by me.

[davidjay]

Service economy, eh? I thought one of their complaints was that we don't make things anymore.