Johnson will visit Northern Ireland today — Annabelle Dickson has a curtain-raiser. With some luck, the trip will go better than his visits to Wales and Scotland. “Brexit will be catastrophic for Wales,” said First Minister Mark Drakeford. “It will decimate our agricultural and manufacturing sectors and risks ripping the Union apart.” At least the chickens Johnson visited didn’t appear to care much about Brexit — their destinies are sealed, no matter what.
: Here’s the list of all of Boris Johnson’s appointees. And make sure you check out this morning’s London Playbook, wherein Jack Blanchard gives the late additions his signature pen-portrait treatment.
QUELLE SURPRISE: Cambridge Analytica, the phone number library disgraced data analytics firm, conducted work for the Leave.EU campaign and UKIP ahead of the 2016 Brexit referendum, according to a former company insider. The revelation — outlined in internal emails between the data analytics firm and the political groups and submitted on Tuesday to the British parliament — contrasts with repeated denials by both Leave.EU and UKIP that they used the firm to target voters during the Brexit ballot. Mark Scott has the story.
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