Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Michael Gove tells Cabinet ministers he would be prepared to delay Brexit until late 2020… Michael Gove has told Cabinet ministers he is prepared to delay Brexit until late 2020 rather than leave without a deal on October 31, The Telegraph has learned. The Environment Secretary has told colleagues that a no-deal Brexit in October risks triggering a General Election that will put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street. His position puts him directly at odds with other Brexiteer leadership candidates including Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary, who have committed to leaving on time with or without a deal. It comes as ministers are braced for Donald Trump, the US President, to say during his State Visit this week that Britain must be prepared to walk away from the EU without a deal. The US President is expected to hold a one-on-one meeting with Mr Johnson after saying he would make an “excellent” Conservative leader. He is also expected to meet Nigel Farage, the head of the Brexit Party. Mr Gove’s Brexit strategy, which he will unveil this, has already won the support of some Remain Cabinet ministers, who believe he is “clear-eyed” about the risks of a no-deal Brexit. A source close to Mr Gove confirmed that he does not believe Britain can leave the EU without a deal by October 31. He said: “Simply trying to go for no deal before the UK is properly prepared will lead to a general election with Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street and risks Brexit being cancelled altogether. These are the most complex negotiations in our peacetime history, it’s not enough to believe in Brexit, you’ve got to be able to deliver it.” – Sunday Telegraph (£) Michael Gove ‘prepared to delay Brexit until end of 2020 to block no-deal’ – Independent …while Matt Hancock shuns No Deal in swing at leadership rivals… Matt Hancock has unveiled a five-point plan to deliver Brexit by the end of October. But, unlike many of his Tory leadership rivals, the health secretary is not threatening to leave without a deal. In an attempt to reset the leadership debate, Hancock would see the UK demand both a time limit on the proposed Irish border backstop and a new free-trade deal. In exchange, he would offer the EU a say over Britain’s border controls between Northern Ireland and the republic and give people on both sides of the border £1bn. Hancock, in an interview with The Sunday Times, fired a shot at no-dealers such as Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Esther McVey and Sajid Javid, saying they are not being straight with MPs and grassroots supporters. He argued that the Speaker, John Bercow, would conspire with remainer MPs to stop Brexit if it looked like a new prime minister was heading for no deal. “I don’t want to become prime minister having promised what I know to be unachievable,” he said. “There is only one route through this and that is to leave with a deal by October 31. This leadership debate needs to be based in the reality of the situation we face. It’s no good proposing what isn’t possible. You’ve also got to propose what you would do. The first thing you have to do is fully acknowledge the brutal truths of the situation we find ourselves in. No deal is not a policy option available to the next prime minister, whether they like it or not.” Hancock’s plan also represents a wake-up call to remainers in the party. He says failure to deliver Brexit would threaten the Tories’ survival and that to honour the 2016 referendum result MPs will have to accept a free-trade deal with the EU, outside the customs union, which involves “low friction but not no friction” at the border. – Sunday Times (£) …and Amber Rudd warns candidates against backing a no-deal Brexit The next Conservative leader must immediately extend Britain’s EU membership and draw up a new Brexit deal with Labour MPs, a key powerbroker in the party’s leadership race has demanded. In a significant intervention that will be seen as a warning to candidates embracing a no-deal Brexit, Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, who is regarded as the leading pro-European voice in the cabinet, calls on all contenders to concede that Britain will not leave at the end of October and start work on a new deal with Brussels. Writing for the Observer, she warns candidates they will lose should they “enter into another battle with parliament over no deal on 31 October”. She says the new leader will have a “brief opportunity to reset the political agenda” with the EU, which should be used to craft a deal that enough backbench Labour MPs would back. “We need to start being honest,” she writes. “The starting point is that we are not leaving on 31 October with a deal – parliament will block a no-deal Brexit, and there isn’t time to do a revised deal. – Observer Send in Nigel Farage and go for a no-deal Brexit, says President Trump… Donald Trump today calls on Britain to send Nigel Farage to negotiate with Brussels and pursue a no-deal Brexit if the EU refuses to give Britain what it wants. In a move that will unnerve even those Conservative contenders who want a hard Brexit, Trump said it was “a mistake” for the Tories not to involve Farage, the Brexit Party leader, in the negotiations and that his success in the recent European elections meant he had earned his place. “I like Nigel a lot. He has a lot to offer,” Trump said. “He is a very smart person. They won’t bring him in. Think how well they would do if they did. They just haven’t figured that out yet.” In an interview with The Sunday Times ahead of his state visit to the UK this week, the American president said the next prime minister should refuse to pay the £39bn Brexit divorce bill and “walk away” if Brussels does not bow to Britain’s demands. Trump said that it was not too late for Britain to follow his advice and “sue” the EU to give Britain greater “ammunition” in the talks. And he vowed to “go all out” to secure a free trade deal between Britain and America within months of Brexit taking place to make up for lost trade with the EU. The president said Britain should also withhold the £39bn payment, around $50bn, to gain leverage. “If I were them I wouldn’t pay $50bn,” he said. “That is me. I would not pay, that is a tremendous number.” Just days before his final meeting with May, Trump was withering about the prime minister’s handling of the negotiations saying she left the EU with “very little to lose” and “no downside”. Trump confirmed that he told May to sue the EU to give Britain greater leverage. “What I would do is, for those mistakes made by the EU that cost the UK a lot of money and a lot of harm, I would have put that on the table, whether it is in the form of litigation or in the form of a request. But they chose not to do that. It’s very hard for the UK to get a good deal when they go into the negotiation that way.” – Sunday Times (£) Prepare for no deal and send in Farage – BBC News Donald Trump says our next PM must invite Nigel Farage to Brexit talks and refuse to pay the EU £39bn – The Sun …while the President is condemned for ‘entirely unacceptable interference’ after praising Boris Johnson’s bid to be Prime Minister Senior politicians from all of the main parties have warned Donald Trump against “distasteful interference” in British politics during an already controversial state visit this week, with the Tory leadership race and future Brexit policy hanging in the balance. Mr Trump was accused by party leaders and MPs past and present of breaking a longstanding convention by praising Boris Johnson, claiming he would make an “excellent” prime minister, ahead of a three-day trip to the UK which begins on Monday. Speaking to The Independent, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a Tory former foreign secretary, said the comments by the “narcissistic and egocentric” Mr Trump were “unprecedented for a president of the United States”. Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Vince Cable also condemned the remarks, and one MP suggested the Queen should rescind Mr Trump’s invitation to a state banquet on Tuesday night. It is highly unusual for a sitting US president to comment on a UK political election, although Mr Trump has previously drawn fire over his vocal support for Brexit and his criticism of Theresa May. – Independent Donald Trump backing Boris Johnson is ‘unacceptable interference’ says Jeremy Corbyn – Sky News Donald Trump slammed by Michael Gove’s ally for backing rival Boris Johnson – The Sun Revealed: How charisma, flattery and hard Brexit helped Boris Johnson win over Donald Trump – Sunday Telegraph (£) Public opinion swings behind ‘hard’ Brexit as voters flock to back Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson because of his uncompromising stance on leaving EU Leaving the European Union without a deal will pose no threat to public safety, the Security Minister has declared – as a new Mail on Sunday poll shows voters are becoming less concerned about the effects of a hard Brexit. A total of 45 per cent agree that a No Deal scenario is ‘nothing to fear’ or would cause only ‘short term problems’ with ‘few or no consequences for the UK’. That compares with 30 per cent who believe that it would cause ‘severe’ problems, according to the Deltapoll research. Those advocating for such a hard Brexit will be bolstered by Minister Ben Wallace’s insistence today that such a result will have no major downside for national security. He told The Mail on Sunday that the British intelligence community would be ready for such a situation ‘because very little would change’. The former Remain supporter, who ran Boris Johnson’s 2016 leadership campaign, said while law enforcement tools such as the European Arrest Warrant could be affected ‘sub-optimally’ by a hard Brexit, there were mitigating benefits from walking away from Brussels. He insisted that ‘our ability to protect ourselves increases, because unilaterally we can do things to defend our borders that we cannot currently do as members of the European Union’. – Mail on Sunday Nigel Farage slams ‘petty’ and ‘small minded’ Theresa May after revealing No. 10 banned him from meeting Trump next week… Nigel Farage says Theresa May has banned him from meeting Donald Trump – and has hit back at the Prime Minister for being ‘petty’ and ‘small minded’. The Brexit Party leader said Number 10 had told the US president’s team not to meet him during his state visit – a move he branded ‘absolutely ludicrous’. Mr Farage, who is today in Peterborough to campaign for the constituency’s by-election, said that a friend in Washington had informed him that Theresa May’s office had told Mr Trump’s entourage: ‘Don’t meet this guy.’ ‘It’s absolutely ludicrous,’ Mr Farage said. ‘I know they’re worried about their Conservative Party but given that I’ve got good connections to him and many of the team around him and that they’re our biggest military ally, intelligence ally, and very important investor in each other’s countries. ‘Why would you want to prevent a meeting between someone who knows the president well? ‘It’s just extraordinary, it’s small minded, petty and it’s not putting the interests of the country first.’ – MailOnline ..while he says ‘vote Conservative, get Corbyn’ as the Brexit Party is put on General Election footing… Nigel Farage believes his Brexit Party could be on the cusp of winning their first seat in Westminster in a by-election this week as he warned: “Vote Conservative, get Labour”. The Ukip leader said that the Peterborough by-election on Thursday is now a two-horse race between the Brexit Party and Labour, with the Conservatives “nowhere”. The by-election was triggered after Fiona Onasanya, the former Labour MP, was jailed for lying about a speeding offence. Mr Farage told The Telegraph: “The Tory party in Peterborough are nowhere. But Labour have a massive election machine and they are throwing everything at this. And I mean everything. “Our key message these last few days to conservative voters in the north of the constituency, is vote Conservative, get Corbyn. Only the Brexit Party can beat Labour here.” Mr Farage’s slogan is based on the warning that David Cameron, the former Prime Minister, used to make about Mr Farage: “Vote Ukip, get Labour”. He said that he does not “trust” any of the Brexiteer Tory leadership candidates to take Britain out of the European Union without a deal on October 31. He said: “Why would I believe them? Boris, Raab and Esther. All of them collapsed on the third attempt to get that new treaty through, having voted against it twice. They called it vassalage, called it slave status. Then voted for it.” – Sunday Telegraph (£) …and he predicts the first Brexit Party MP will be elected on Thursday… Nigel Farage is predicting his first Brexit Party Parliamentary election win, that will send shockwaves through Westminster and his first MP in Parliament. Mr Farage, fresh off the European Election where his new party got the most votes, says the Peterborough by-election will repeat the feat. The seat is traditionally a Conservative-Labour battleground, both of whom suffered in the Euro elections as voters delivered their verdict on Brexit. The Brexit Party got the most vote and pro-Remain LibDems came second. The 6 June by-election was called after Fiona Onasanya was forced out after she was jailed for lying about a speeding offence. His party, and candidate Mike Greene, are the bookies favourites to win. Mr Farage, speaking at a packed rally in Peterborough on Saturday, said the by-election is “the opportunity for the next chapter in this great story” following the European elections. He said he thought the Brexit Party “must be doing quite well” as former prime minister Gordon Brown visited Peterborough this week to campaign for Labour. “It shows you that our political establishment were absolutely mortified by what happened [in the European elections],” he said. “But in some ways what happens here on Thursday [in the by-election] is even bigger.” He said the Labour Party has a “very good, well-honed by-election campaign machine” and has been working the ground for “many months”. – iNews …as the Brexit party tops a Westminster election poll for the first time Nigel Farage’s Brexit party has surged into first place as voters’ favourites, according to a new poll. It is the first time the party has achieved top position in a national poll. The results suggest hundreds of Conservative seats are at risk. The Brexit party’s support increased by two points to 26% of the vote in the latest Opinium poll – for the Observer – which asked people how they would vote in the next Westminster election. Labour is in second place on 22%, but its support has fallen by seven points over the past two weeks. The Tories are third on 17%, with their support down five points, and the Lib Dems are up five points, on 16% of the vote. These results come after a poll last week put the Lib Dems in first place, in another sign that parties with a clear position on Brexit are gaining support while the Conservatives and Labour continue to grapple with their stances on leaving the EU. Both parties are under pressure to set out their pro-Brexit or pro-Remain positions more unequivocally. – Observer Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party takes general election poll lead for very first time – Independent Quit by the summer or face a new bullying probe, John Bercow is told by angry Tory MPs after Speaker said he would stay on until Brexit is over John Bercow is being warned to stick to his ‘original’ plan to quit by the summer or face a fresh row over allegations he bullied staff. The Speaker sparked fury last week by announcing that he would stay in the post to oversee the Brexit drama despite repeated claims he is ‘biased against Brexit’. But last night, Tory MPs vowed to fast-track new anti-bullying procedures which would make it easier to investigate so-called ‘historic’ allegations of bullying. They say the new system will allow a proper investigation into claims that Mr Bercow bullied his staff – claims he has repeatedly denied. The new procedures are yet to be finalised by MPs, with critics claiming Mr Bercow is hoping the new scheme does not come into force before he eventually quits. But one senior Tory MP said: ‘We are determined to see this introduced as quickly as possible. Mr Speaker may think it can be dragged out till after he’s gone but we owe it to Commons staff to get on with it.’ When he was elected in 2009, Mr Bercow promised to serve as Speaker for only nine years. But during a trip to the US last week, he said it was not ‘sensible to vacate the chair’ while there were ‘momentous events’ taking place and ‘great issues’ to be resolved. The move sparked fury among Brexit-backing Tory MPs who have accused Mr Bercow of trying to block the UK’s departure from the EU and for ‘abusing’ his role and acting ‘undemocratically’. – Mail on Sunday Anti-Brexit Tory MP Phillip Lee suffers local no-confidence vote The move against Bracknell MP Dr Phillip Lee is symbolic but could lead to a deselection process that would see him dumped as the Conservative candidate at the next general election. He blamed pro-Brexit campaigners who had joined the party in recent months and had “done nothing but spread hatred, intimidation and distrust over a single issue”. Dr Lee was the first minister to quit the Government over Brexit and back a second EU referendum. He has since become chair of the Conservatives for a People’s Vote campaign. Some 200 members of the Bracknell Conservative Association held a meeting at midday today and the vast majority voted against the MP, a source who was in the room told PoliticsHome. Members spoke out against his refusal to accept the 2016 vote for Brexit while others complained he was “arrogant”. Association Gerry Barber said afterwards: “The result of the vote was that a majority of members present were in agreement with the motion, which was therefore passed, and the result has been communicated to Dr Lee and to the full membership. “I will be discussing the meeting with Phillip later this week.” The executive of the association will hold a meeting next month and will likely discuss whether to order Dr Lee to reveal whether he hopes to stand at the next election – the formal start to a deselection process. But the MP said he would not be “forced into taking a decision” on his future by an “orchestrated, destructive campaign from outside the party”. He added that his constituents could “rely on my absolute commitment to serving our area’s best interests in Parliament, without fear or favour, and then take into account my full record at the next general election”. Former Tory MP Stewart Jackson said it was a “typically charmless and arrogant response from Philip Lee” [sic]. He added: “You can’t renege on solemn promises and try to pretend it’s fine. It isn’t. The forelock tugging era is over.” – PoliticsHome Remainer Tory minister becomes second Conservative MP to suffer no confidence vote – Sunday Express Farmers say prisoners allowed to work on day release could help fill post-Brexit void of EU fruit pickers Farmers say prisoners who are allowed to work on day release could help fill the post-Brexit void left by EU fruit pickers. Ministers are planning to relax the rules that will allow more offenders out to work while they complete their sentence. Currently offenders in open prisons must wait a year before being allowed out to work in the community, but earlier this week David Gauke, the Justice Secretary, proposed they could be allowed to work on day to boost their job prospects. Suzannah Starkey, who runs Starkey’s Fruit in Northamptonshire, said she is currently in discussions about how to recruit prisoners to pick strawberries and apples at her farm come harvest season. The farmer said she would be happy for them to start as soon as September, in order to harvest her Bramley apples, and that she had sought advice from John Timpson, who hires offenders and ex offenders in his Timpson’s shops. She told The Sunday Telegraph: “I will be getting in touch with my local prison and tell them who I am and what I want, and they will go and find potential people for my fruit farm. “They are free to work just like any other employee, they come here, work and go back with their pay packet at the end of the day. “I think we should be as a society giving chances to these people. The prisons are full of people who really ought not to be there and it is up to society who has chosen to lock people away to give them a place in society.” Farmers are currently worried that post-Brexit it will be difficult to get seasonal workers for their farms. – Sunday Telegraph (£) Jeremy Hunt: Brexit Britain’s destiny is to walk tall in the world Tomorrow, the President of the United States lands on our soil. Life can come at you fast: this time last year, I was locked in negotiations with the Treasury over a 70th anniversary funding boost for the NHS. Tomorrow morning, I’ll stand on the tarmac representing our country when I welcome President Trump and his family off the plane. Some on the Left will see this as an opportunity for virtue-signalling and indulge in the usual ridiculous anti‑American rhetoric, but Conservatives understand the simple truth at the heart of the special relationship: no two nations have ever done more together in the defence of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. So this week we will honour our friendship by pulling out the stops to give America’s elected leader the warmest of welcomes. I’ve been, effectively, Britain’s chief diplomat for almost a year now, travelling to nearly 30 countries. What strikes you is that other countries always seem to have a lot more respect for Britain than we appear to have for ourselves. That’s because – with the extraordinary connections we have developed through organisations like Nato and the Commonwealth – our role has always been to defend democratic values, a global mission that I want us to continue as we embark on the post‑Brexit chapter of our history. This is not tub-thumping: other countries are keen for Britain to play this role, too, as they see the balance of power changing in the world, and sense that we cannot take Western values for granted. Britain’s history and destiny is to walk tall in the world, as America’s principal ally and with Europe’s biggest defence budget. Standing shoulder to shoulder with America, we wrote the current world order. It’s never been more important for us to lean into that historic leadership role. – Jeremy Hunt MP for the Sunday Telegraph (£) Priti Patel and Iain Duncan Smith: Any Tory who won’t take us out of the EU by October 31st doesn’t deserve to be PM Hardly a day seems to go by without another candidate entering the “race” to be leader of the Conservative Party. We say race but this is beginning to look more like the Charge of the Light Brigade. One can only hope that it will have a better outcome, but that will depend on whether the contenders charge in the right direction and at the right target. As this list has grown and grown, what has gone missing is the important point that this leadership election is about picking the next Prime Minister. Those who have thrown their hats into the ring, with minimum support but imbued with an enormous sense of self-worth, need to think a little more carefully. After all, whoever gets selected won’t have the space that a leader of the opposition has to develop into the job, to become known to the public, or to learn the ropes of government. Instead, the new Prime Minister will not only face the onerous task of resolving Brexit but also of running a Cabinet that has looked depressingly and dangerously dysfunctional in recent weeks. They will need to give new energy and direction to a government that seems to have lost its way across a range of crucial areas. It is genuinely questionable whether some of those who have declared have done so with any real understanding of any of this or they recognise the difference between leadership in opposition and becoming Prime Minister. Not leaving on March 29 infuriated the public. In the European elections, the voters reminded us that they were no longer prepared to see the establishment betray their vote. Yet candidates are answering the wrong question. They are being asked: do they want no deal and, if not, then what? Their answers have been all over the place. Some have chosen the ridiculous position of saying no deal would be a disaster but that we must keep it on the table, while others have said they are prepared to leave without a deal. Knowing that we cannot go on past Oct 31 means we must be prepared not just to negotiate our future relationship with the EU but also in parallel must have ensured that we are fully ready to leave on that date, come what may. This will mean putting in place a myriad of practical arrangements to ensure we leave as smoothly as possible without the failings of the existing Withdrawal Agreement. This leadership election must result in three things for the party: the delivery of Brexit no later than 31 October; capitalism to set people free, tempered by social justice; and strong leadership that can communicate and enthuse. Get this right and the Conservative Party will rise again. – Priti Patel MP and Iain Duncan Smith MP for the Sunday Telegraph (£) Andrea Leadsom: My three No Deal Brexit steps out of the EU and into a great future for Britain I am standing to be the Leader of the Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister to provide the decisive leadership that will deliver our exit from the EU, and seize the bright future that awaits us. I campaigned passionately for Leave in the 2016 referendum and share the frustration of millions that the promise made three years ago has not been kept. It is vital that we leave the EU by October 31, without any further extension to that deadline. The EU tell us they will not reopen the Withdrawal Agreement. I take them at their word – so on that basis the Withdrawal Agreement Bill is dead. Instead, I have a pragmatic three-step plan – a plan to deliver Brexit in a way that protects citizens of the UK and the EU, delivers certainty to businesses, and maintains the integrity of our United Kingdom. No more prevaricating. No more fearmongering. And no more limbo. Just compassionate and decisive action that demonstrates leadership. My first step will be to take sensible measures to enshrine certain agreements into law, and to protect our people. The second step is to give businesses and industry the confidence and certainty they need to plan for a managed exit. I want them to be able to invest, hire, and innovate with renewed optimism. The third step will be to lead a delegation of UK Ministers to meet with the EU Council and the proposed new EU Commissioners, to talk directly about the wide-ranging preparations we are making for a managed exit on October 31. It’s not too late to take advantage of the opportunities we hoped for in voting Leave. It’s time to look forward; we have an incredibly bright future ahead of us. – Andrea Leadsom MP for The Sun Priti Patel: Let’s end Brexit betrayal and break the chain of Tory leaders who make same broken promises If ever you expected events to bring the Conservative Party to its senses, it should be now. We have just experienced the worst national election results in our long and successful electoral history after a cataclysmic series of polls since Theresa May and her entire Cabinet broke their promise – which they made on over one hundred occasions – to leave the EU on 29th March. Voters in the country are rightly angry at broken promises by the Conservative leadership about leaving on time, about leaving the single market, and about leaving the customs union. They witnessed with disbelief as the Cabinet supported Theresa May negotiating with the most left-wing leader of the Labour Party in its history in a bizarre attempt to agree a sordid deal which would have betrayed the country’s vote for a genuine Brexit. Conservative Party members have witnessed first-hand the level of public distrust and anger during the recent local government elections. Hard working Councillors and candidates lost seats because of the failings of this Cabinet and through no fault of their own. Now they rightly expect their Conservative MPs to get their act together and elect a Leader who will break the mould of the same old broken politics of the Westminster blob and take us out of the EU and make the Conservative Party Conservative again. – Priti Patel MP for The Sun The Sun: Boris Johnson’s Brexit solution can only work if he’s ready for No Deal Boris Johnson says no one sensible would aim exclusively for a No Deal Brexit. But no one responsible would take No Deal off the table. The Sun on Sunday couldn’t have put it better. The bookie’s favourite to become the next Prime Minister is preparing his own solution to the Irish border problem which torpedoed Theresa May’s deal. If Boris does get the top job, he believes he has found a formula that would avoid Britain being locked into the customs union. But the ex-Foreign Secretary knows he will only have leverage with blinkered EU leaders if they are convinced he will walk away. Naturally, this has scared off Tory Remainers like rudderless Amber Rudd. These Europhile whingers long to delay Brexit again and again until it runs into the long grass for ever. But the next leader of the Tory Party must win back the trust of bedrock voters who have deserted it in droves for the Brexit Party. On Thursday, Nigel Farage could chalk up another ballot box shock with the election of the first Brexit Party MP in the Peterborough by-election. Time is of the essence for the Tories and Boris knows it. October 31 must be judgment day. – The Sun says Tony Parsons: Boris Johnson’s ‘lie’ was nothing compared to David Cameron’s promise that Brexit result would be final Are all the big fat fibbers of Project Fear going to be threatened with life imprisonment for the blatant lies they told during the EU referendum of 2016? No, I didn’t think so. Lest we forget, the British people were repeatedly told that if we dared to vote Leave, unemployment would immediately soar, the economy would collapse and the UK would be plunged into recession. It did not happen. In fact, employment stands at a record high. So — anybody going to be hauled off to court for telling the British people pro-Remain porkies? Anybody going to be threatened with jail time for the barefaced lies of Project Fear? No chance! And yet Boris Johnson has been ordered to appear in court because of the Brexit bus slogan stating that the UK was sending £350million a week to Brussels. Boris faces three charges of misconduct in a public office for what was alleged on the side of that big red bus. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The case has been brought by a sad little man called Marcus Ball, who crowd-funded £500,000 to put Boris in the dock. So was that bus slogan a lie? In fact, at the time of the EU referendum, we were actually sending more than £350million a week to our beloved masters in Brussels. The figure was closer to £363million. However, it is correct to state that the sum did not consider the almost £100million rebate that the UK claws back every week. So the net figure was more like £250million every week — still quite a lot! And hardly a fabrication. The Brexit bus statement is certainly truer than, say, George Osborne’s threat of soaring mass unemployment if we voted to Leave. – Tony Parsons for The Sun Stephen Pollard: Not delivering Brexit is the one reason for all this chaos If last month’s European election taught us one thing, it was that nothing in politics should ever be taken for granted. The Brexit Party, which didn’t even exist a few months ago, topped the poll with 31.6 percent. But if that result was seismic, yesterday’s YouGov poll makes it look almost staid. n the 2015 general election, the Lib Dems scraped together just 7.9 percent of the vote. In 2017 they did even worse, managing just 7.4 percent. Voters had clearly decided never to trust the Lib Dems again after their volte face on student fees as part of the coalition government. But “never” is a word which should not be used in politics. The Lib Dems have not so much risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes as leapt clear of the pyre. Of voters, 24 percent now say they would vote Lib Dem if there was an election – more than three times as many people as voted Lib Dem in 2017. And if that wasn’t enough of a political transformation, the Brexit Party is second, with 22 percent. For the first time since polling began, neither Labour nor the Conservatives are in the top two. Both managed just 19 percent. This is, of course, just one poll. But even if it is an outlier, it demonstrates the one great truth about British politics today. We are in a state of enormous flux and anything is possible. The Tories have stuck two fingers up to Brexit voters, with its most committed Brexiteers perversely spending every waking hour undermining their own cause. But they have – perhaps – one last chance. It is a huge ‘if’, but if the Conservatives are able to unite behind a new leader and deliver Brexit then the very political flux that has torpedoed them could work in their favour and offer them the chance to reshape politics in their favour. If they simply carry on as before, however, and put ideological battles ahead of sensible government, then yesterday’s poll will surely turn out to be the harbinger of a political earthquake. – Stephen Pollard for the Sunday Express Brexit in Brief The Boris prosecution marks the moment at which British politics went Latin American – Daniel Hannan MEP for the Sunday Telegraph (£) Parliament will find a way to insist we don’t leave without a deal – Amber Rudd MP for the Observer Why I’m backing Boris to be Britain’s freedom fighter and unleash the potential of Brexit – Liz Truss MP for the Mail on Sunday Trump could boost rising influence of Nigel Farage – Sunday Express editorial Tory leadership hopefuls will be grilled by colleagues on breaking the Brexit deadlock – The Sun