Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Jeremy Corbyn faces battle with Labour members over Brexit policy today… Jeremy Corbyn faces a battle over Labour’s Brexit policy later as members choose between two competing strategies at the party’s annual conference. Delegates are to decide whether the party should explicitly back Remain in a future public vote, or adopt the leadership’s neutral position. Labour’s stance on Brexit has dominated the conference agenda, with many in the party disagreeing over the issue. It is expected that two motions on the issue will be put to a vote on Monday. The party’s draft plan for its Brexit policy, put forward by Mr Corbyn, suggests that, if Labour wins power in a general election, it would remain neutral while negotiating a new Brexit deal within three months. It would then hold a referendum within six months, and the party would decide which side to back at a special conference. But grassroots activists at the conference have campaigned for an unambiguous Remain stance. – BBC News Sadiq Khan attacks Corbyn’s ‘fudge’ on Brexit as he joins shadow cabinet members backing Remain – Independent …as he is told Labour will be crushed if they sit on the fence over Brexit… Jeremy Corbyn is facing a full-scale revolt over his Brexit policy after senior party figures warned Labour will be crushed at the next election if he continues to sit on the fence. Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour will lose 30 per cent of its vote if it does not embrace Remain in all circumstances. Other big names lined up to condemn Mr Corbyn’s lack of leadership over Brexit. Mr Corbyn was also struggling to maintain authority within his own private office after his “Orwellian” right-hand man drove out the party’s policy chief, who attacked the “blizzard of lies” coming out of the leader’s office and said he had lost faith in Mr Corbyn’s ability to win an election. It came as a new poll showed the majority of people who voted Labour in the 2017 election now think Mr Corbyn should quit. Ms Thornberry warned that with the Conservatives pledging to leave the EU with or without a deal and the Lib Dems promising to revoke Article 50, Labour would be squeezed out at the next election – expected before the end of the year – if it still had no clear position on Brexit. She said: “Polling does show that we could lose 30 per cent of the Labour vote to the Greens and to the LibDems unless we are clear about where we stand on Europe… – Telegraph (£) Emily Thornberry says Labour party risks getting stuck in a “Star Wars crusher” if it doesn’t decide on Brexit position – Telegraph (£) Furious Tom Watson says Labour is Remain and blasts Corbyn’s Brexit dithering – The Sun …but the Labour leader signals he will resist pressure to endorse Remain in second referendum… Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has signalled he will resist pressure to commit his party to backing Remain in any future Brexit referendum. And he suggested that Labour’s MPs could even back a Brexit deal negotiated by prime minister Boris Johnson with Brussels. Dozens of motions tabled by constituency parties at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton call for the party to commit to Remain – a position backed by senior shadow cabinet ministers Emily Thornberry and Sir Keir Starmer at a rally on Saturday. In an open challenge to the leader’s stance, Ms Thrornberry asked: “It we believe in internationalism and socialism – why on earth would we back Brexit?” But Mr Corbyn tabled a rival statement to the party’s ruling National Executive Committee saying that, while the party backed a public vote and would offer the options of a credible Brexit deal or Remain to voters, a decision on how it would campaign would be made at a special conference after the election. On BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show, he made clear that he does not want the party to decide whether it would campaign for or against the deal which it would itself negotiate with Brussels until after negotiations are complete. “Let’s see what we get,” he said. “And we’ll put that final decision to British people and make that decision at that time.” – Independent …and suggests that the UK could be better off after Brexit if the deal is right Jeremy Corbyn has suggested a Labour Brexit deal could be preferable to remaining in the EU, putting himself on a collision course with activists and MPs pushing for the party to campaign for remain. In an appearance on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show before a contentious debate on Brexit at the party’s conference in Brighton, Corbyn sought to play down Labour divisions after an aborted attempt to ditch Tom Watson’s job and the resignation of a key policy aide, Andrew Fisher. When asked whether it was in Britain’s long-term interests to remain in the EU, the Labour leader said: “It depends on the agreement you have with the European Union outside.” His suggestion that a Labour government could negotiate an exit deal that would be preferable to EU membership – and that he will reserve judgment until those negotiations are complete – will infuriate anti-Brexit activists. He said: “We have consistently put forward what I believe to be a credible option, which is based on five pillars – the customs union, the trade relationship, protection of consumer and environmental rights, and of course the Good Friday agreement.” – Guardian > WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn’s full interview on The Andrew Marr Show Labour set to give the right to vote at general elections to all foreign nationals living in the UK Labour is set to commit to giving full voting rights to foreign nationals living in the UK in a move that could have a seismic impact on a future Brexit referendum. A motion expected to be approved by the party’s annual conference on Monday promises that a Labour government would “extend equal rights to vote to all UK residents. If passed, the text would become official party policy. The change would extend the right to vote in general elections to anyone with residency rights in the UK, regardless of their nationality. Currently only British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote in general elections. Other foreign nationals living in Britain can vote only in local elections and European elections. The proposal will be debated at the Labour conference in Brighton after being quietly included in a motion that says a Labour government should “maintain and extend” freedom of movement even if Britain leaves the EU, including by opposing any new immigration system based on migrants’ income or skills. The text says that, if Labour wins the next election, it will “extend equal rights to vote to all UK residents”. – Independent Downing Street warn not to expect a Brexit breakthrough while Boris Johnson is at the UN in New York this week Boris Johnson has warned not to expect a “New York breakthrough” on Brexit as he landed in the United States ahead of two days of discussions with world leaders. The prime minister will meet France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel for a three-way discussion about subjects including Brexit and Iran, as he searches for a way of securing a deal before the end of next month. He will also meet Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, in the margins of the UN General Assembly, though much of the work will focus on climate change and Iran. Mr Johnson landed on Sunday night, as he waits to hear the outcome of a Supreme Court case into whether his decision to prorogue, or send away, MPs for five weeks was lawful. Speaking to reporters on the plane, the prime minister played down the chances of the discussions transforming the situation. “There will be discussions. I would caution you all not to think that this will be the moment – New York – it might be, but I don’t wish to elevate the belief that there will be a New York breakthrough. I’m not going to be pessimistic, we’ll be pushing ahead but there is still work to be done.” – Sky News Jean-Claude Juncker suggests a no-deal Brexit would see the erection of a hard Irish border Jean-Claude Juncker has warned there will have to be controls at the border in Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit. In an outspoken interview, the European Commission president said the UK would be to blame for any fallout for a chaotic exit for the bloc – as the EU “did not invent the Brexit”. Mr Juncker said he wanted to reach an agreement with the UK but the EU had to protect the safety of its citizens. The Irish border issue has been a major stumbling block in the Brexit negotiations, as Boris Johnson has demanded that the backstop – a contingency plan to prevent a hard border by keeping the UK aligned with many of Brussels’ rules – should be scrapped. He told Sky News’s Ridge on Sunday: “We have to make sure that the interests of the European Union and of the internal market will be preserved. An animal entering Northern Ireland without border control can enter without any kind of control the European Union via the southern part of the Irish island.” – Independent > WATCH: EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s interview on Sophy Ridge on Sunday Boris Johnson and Donald Trump agree to strike UK-US trade deal by July 2020 Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have agreed to strike a UK-US trade deal in lightning quick time by July next year. The President and the PM could publicly commit to the highly ambitious timeline as early as Tuesday (September 22) when they meet in New York. Boris was initially sceptical about Mr Trump’s aim to have a deal tied up in just nine months time. But he has been persuaded to aim for it because of the high risk that the US presidential election in November poses. American politicians will be distracted by the campaign for the White House as well as Congress by the Autumn, and a new president may not share Mr Trump’s enthusiasm for a deal. It has also emerged that the deal the two leaders are aiming for will be the biggest free trade agreement that the US has ever done with another country. While the deal could be signed next summer, its implementation will have to wait until Brexit’s transition period finishes in December 2020. – The Sun Scotland demands £52million in bid to brace for a no-deal Brexit The Scottish Government has requested £52 million from Westminster in case the UK crashed out of the European Union without a deal. Scottish Finance Secretary Derek Mackay accused the UK Government of be “actively pursuing a no-deal Brexit”, which he described as an “utterly unacceptable” outcome. Mr Mackay wants the UK to cover any additional costs incurred, including beyond the October 31 deadline. Westminster previously said money from the EU Exit Operational Contingency Fund would be available where Scotland faces disproportionate cost. Mr Mackay said: “The UK Government now seems to be actively pursuing a ‘no-deal’ outcome which is utterly unacceptable and must be avoided at all costs. “We have requested £52 million from the UK Government’s fund to help us prepare for a ‘no-deal’ outcome. – iNews Health cover for retired Britons in the EU to last six months in no-deal Brexit scenario The government has pledged £150m to temporarily cover the healthcare costs of 180,000 British nationals living in the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, said workers posted to the bloc, plus pensioners and students, who can currently have their healthcare funded by the UK under existing reciprocal arrangements, would continue to be covered for six months after a crash out. The government will also pay the treatment costs of UK tourists if they began their holiday before the UK leaves the EU. “Protecting the healthcare rights of UK nationals is a priority of this government,” said Hancock. – Guardian Boris Johnson could prorogue Parliament again if Remainers win court case Boris Johnson will abide by the Supreme Court’s ruling this week on his decision to trigger a parliamentary break, Dominic Raab promised. But the Foreign Secretary also refused to rule out the Prime Minister immediately using the Prorogation procedure to suspend Westminster sittings again should the judges decide against the Government. He insisted he did not want to “take levers off the table that weaken the position of the UK in Brussels.” Mr Raab spoke out in a television interview yesterday ahead of the announcement of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the historic case, which could come as early as tomorrow. Judges are to rule on two legal challenges by MPs and campaigners to the Prime Minister’s decision to use the ancient prorogation procedure to end Parliamentary sittings until October 14. “Of course we’ll respect whatever the legal ruling is from the Supreme Court, whether it’s tomorrow or later in the week,” the Foreign Secretary said on the BBC1 Andrew Marr show. – Express > WATCH: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says he’s always been in favour of a deal Douglas Carswell: Have the Lib Dems made a strategic blunder in their extreme positioning on Brexit? Earlier this week, it emerged that Liberal Democrat MEPs have written to Jean-Claude Juncker urging him not to do a deal with Boris Johnson. We can all imagine why these MEPs might want to prevent the two sides reaching an agreement: for a start they would lose their jobs, chauffeur-driven cars in Brussels and generous MEP expense accounts almost overnight. Were the UK and EU to agree an amicable separation, the Lib Dems would lose much of their raison d’être. There won’t be much point in a party that defines itself as being in favour of Brussels after we’ve left. Trying to stop Brexit makes sense for a party that polled eight per cent at the last General Election. Why? To win over a sizeable hardcore of committed “Remainiacs”. While they might comprise only a minority of the electorate, they are more numerous than those who voted Lib Dem in the past. By defining themselves as the “Stop Brexit” party, the Lib Dems under Jo Swinson, stand to win over some of those votes, taking them off Labour and perhaps even drawing the support of Tory Remainers, too. At one level, this approach is working. The Lib Dems have not only signalled their anti-Brexit credentials with a begging letter to Juncker. At the start of their conference, they sent a message to unreconciled Remainers that they no longer simply seek to overturn the referendum result with a second plebiscite. They now want to cancel the June 2016 result outright by revoking Article 50. Recent polls put them level with Labour, with support reaching the mid 20s. If they enter the next election with that level of backing, they will almost certainly win many more seats. Yet although tactically clever, this Lib Dem approach will prove strategically short-sighted in the long run. – Douglas Carswell for the Telegraph (£) Nick Timothy: It is clear Labour is peddling a lie and is preparing to betray ‘the many’ Above the shoulder of every speaker at Labour Party conference reads a slogan: “For the many, not the few.” For decades, this has been Labour’s promise, but this week will show just how hollow their words ring. Tomorrow, the conference will decide the party’s Brexit policy. Remember, Labour voted for the referendum, and to trigger Article 50. Their manifesto promised to “accept the referendum result”. And they swore repeatedly that they wouldn’t overturn the decision made three years ago, by the many, not the few. Now, Labour’s true colours are starting to show. And those colours are not red, white and blue, but the blue and yellow of the EU flag. They dance not to the tune decided by the many, but to Ode to Joy, the European anthem enjoyed by the Europhile few. Jeremy Corbyn wants to keep Labour’s Brexit policy as clear as mud. He wants to head into an election promising a referendum in which voters would be given a choice between a new Brexit deal and remaining after all. How Labour would campaign in this referendum, he says, should be decided after the election. Brexit voters will smell the betrayal in this proposal. But for the Remainers in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, it still isn’t enough. They want Labour’s policy to become an all-out assault on democracy. They want to support Remain, block Brexit and keep Britain in the European Union for good. They are prepared even to subordinate Labour’s party interests to their pro‑European goals. They dismiss the arguments of Labour MPs representing Leave-voting constituencies. They plan to keep blocking an election until they get what they want: another referendum in which they campaign to Remain. – Nick Timothy for the Telegraph (£) Charles Moore: Corbyn’s Brexit stance may be muddled and chaotic, but it avoids the Boris trap This column wishes even now to uphold the idea that Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit policy is not as confused as it seems. Despite fierce attack from within, orchestrated by his now-tottering deputy Tom Watson, and fanned by the party’s ex-Messiah, Tony Blair, Mr Corbyn has tried to fend off Remainer tendencies. He has had to concede that there should be a second referendum, but he continues to hold out hope that a Labour government could somehow invent a magical deal, quite different from the wicked “Tory Brexit”. While this approach is not honest, it does at least try to cling on to the several million Labour supporters who voted for Brexit. It is also avoids the trap which Boris Johnson seems to be setting his opponents. His strong policy of leaving by the end of October has driven many of them to reveal their true colours as Remainers instead of keeping up the pretence that they just want a good deal. The Lib Dems have fallen for it en masse. So have most Labour “moderates”. The problem with this position is so simple that Remainers miss it. It is really quite likely that we shall leave with a deal on 31 October, or that we shall leave with none. If we do leave, especially with a deal, what is the point of being a Remain party afterwards? How could a party calling for the deed to be reversed win an election? It would be declaring that the civil war of recent years must be started all over again. As a manifesto pledge, it would be borderline mad. The other reason for Mr Corbyn to oppose out-and-out Remain is personal. It is the Blairites’ way of prising him out of the leadership. No one would accuse Mr Corbyn of being a brilliant man but, as he breakfasts gloomily this week in Brighton, even he can see which side his political bread is buttered. – Charles Moore for the Telegraph (£) Tony Parsons: Britain’s General Boris Johnson is calmly leading his 17.4million-strong Leavers’ army out of the EU Signal from the front line . . . Downing Street surrounded. Remainers screaming at the gate. All exits blocked. SNAFU, as they say in the Army. Situation Normal: All F****d Up. Yet amid this barrage of incoming fire, Boris Johnson and his Cabinet high command seem remarkably relaxed. Almost as if everything is going to plan. Britain will leave the European Union as promised on October 31 — with or without a deal. And since Brussels has branded our latest offer “insane”, No Deal is odds on. It could all go terribly wrong. There are minefields to clear, not least the Rogue Parliament “law” specifically banning No Deal, and a Supreme Court ruling in the next 48 hours. But if Napoleon was right about armies needing “lucky generals”, Boris Johnson was born lucky. Look at the barmy battalions arrayed against him . . . Luxembourg’s pip-squeak Prime Minister, shouty Speaker John Bercow, deluded ex-PM John Major, the referendum-smashing Lib Dems. And, best of all, bewildered Communist fellow-traveller Jeremy Corbyn, now officially the most unpopular Opposition leader of all time, whose party is disintegrating beneath his feet. No wonder the Tories have raced up to 15 points ahead in the polls just eight weeks after Boris entered Number 10. BoJo’s 17.4million-strong Leavers’ army has been reinforced by Remainers appalled at bellowing, fist-shaking mobs bent on sabotaging a democratic referendum. Across the country, far from London’s metropolitan elite, Nigel Farage is drawing capacity crowds to his Brexit Party rallies. Most will vote Tory if Boris does the deed, perhaps including Nigel himself. – Tony Parsons for The Sun Robert Taylor: I’m sick of explaining the real Brexit story to ill-informed foreigners “You Brits are crazy!” I’d only been in America for half an hour, but the conversation with my cab driver had already turned to Brexit. “Why do you say that?”, I asked, genuinely curious. He paused for a few seconds, obviously thinking hard. And then, finally, he gave me his answer: “Well, that’s what I read”. It’s a privilege to travel a lot for work, and it seems spoiled to complain. But wherever I go – from the Middle East, to the US, Asia and, of course, throughout the EU – people overwhelmingly parrot the narrative peddled by Remainers: that Brexit is a catastrophic own goal, that Boris Johnson is an “Anglo-Trump”, that Britain is somehow “withdrawing from the world”. And some make the lazy – or rather, ignorant and insulting – assumption that Leave voters are far-right, nativist, uneducated racists. I suppose I should be flattered that they then assume that I must be a Remainer. Their shock when I tell them that I voted Leave is palpable, like they’re thinking “Wow, you don’t look like a fascist, but maybe you’re just hiding it well”. Why do they think this way? Perhaps few of them have visited the UK recently, or spoken to many British people? No, their own media are feeding this hysteria and pessimism about Brexit. A one-sided Remain narrative has wormed its way across borders and oceans, like some hideous EU directive, to become received wisdom around the world. Vanishingly few outside these islands have ever been exposed to the Leave point of view. – Robert Taylor for the Telegraph (£) Brexit in Brief Global Britain is leading the world as a force for good – Dominic Raab MP for the Sunday Telegraph (£) Centre ground on Brexit is not the way to win voters – Sir John Curtice for The Times (£) Nigel Farage hits right note in fight to quit Europe – Express editorial Jeremy Corbyn’s lofty neutrality on Brexit – Rosa Prince for Politico Juncker savaged on unelected ‘nonsense’: ‘He was the only candidate and nearly lost!’ – Express