Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Britain should pay Brexit divorce bill for the sake of ‘future relations’ with EU, says Donald Tusk at G7 summit… Donald Tusk has told Britain to pay its Brexit divorce bill for the sake of “future relations” with the EU as he rubbished suggestions that Brussels might end up owing money to the UK. The President of the European Council poured cold water on suggestions by ministers including David Davis and Boris Johnson that Britain will be in credit when the final bill is worked out… He said: “No, we have to respect our obligations and I think it’s not about money, it’s about rules and also it’s about a good basis for our future relations. This is why we will be very consistent in this problem, but please believe me it’s not because of money but because of rules.” – Telegraph Tusk warns Britain must pay Brexit divorce bill to EU for sake of ‘future relations’ – Express UK must honour EU obligations in Brexit, says German deputy finance minister – Bloomberg …as Theresa May presses Emmanuel Macron over parallel Brexit divorce and trade talks Theresa May used her first meeting with Emmanuel Macron since his election as French president to press him to allow Brexit trade and divorce talks to take place at the same time. At the G7 summit in Sicily yesterday the pair spoke mainly about the response to the Manchester terrorist attack. With Brexit talks due to begin two weeks after the election on June 8, Mrs May pushed Mr Macron on the structure of the negotiations with the rest of the EU insisting that Britain must settle its bill before discussions could begin on a new trade agreement… Mr Macron hinted that he wanted the issue of the residency rights sorted first. There are “hundreds of thousands of people living in your country, in our country, and sharing our lives”, he said after the meeting. – The Times (£) May tells Macron she wants talks to begin on new EU deal without waiting for agreement on Brexit ‘divorce’ bill – Express Tusk says Trump agrees Brexit is ‘an incident not a trend’… The president of the European council, Donald Tusk, has claimed he convinced Donald Trump that Brexit is an “incident not a trend” and that the EU27 is more united than ever. Speaking at a press conference at the G7 meeting in Sicily, Tusk said he was buoyed by a positive conversation with Trump, who has previously suggested other EU countries might follow Britain’s lead… Tusk said there had been a change of heart, telling journalists: “I was positively surprised by President Trump’s comments on Brexit”… Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, was also in the meeting with Trump and at the press conference. “On Brexit, we mentioned it in passing,” he said. “We made it clear that this in our eyes is a real tragedy, that it is not in the interest of either of the British nor the continental and Irish Europeans. I described why we don’t want other member states to leave and I don’t know any member state having the intention to leave. We were explaining not in detail but roughly.” – Guardian US-UK bilateral trade agreement is top Trump priority, according to American lobbyists – Politico (€) …as Trump reportedly tells Tusk and Juncker “The Germans are bad, really bad” Donald Trump railed against Germany and accused Angela Merkel’s government of unfair economic policies during a meeting with senior EU officials. “The Germans are bad, really bad,” Mr Trump said, according to Spiegel magazine.“Look at the millions of cars they sell in the US. It’s terrible. We’ll put a stop to that.” … White House economic adviser Gary Cohn later confirmed the remarks but clarified that the president “said they’re very bad on trade, but he doesn’t have a problem with Germany.” Mr Trump spoke with the officials in Brussels a few hours before he met with Mrs Merkel and other leaders at a Nato summit. Mr Juncker on Friday sought to downplay the incident. “It’s not true that the president took an aggressive approach when it came to the German trade surplus,” he said. “This is a translation issue. If someone is saying the Germans are bad that doesn’t mean this can be translated literally. He was not aggressive at all.” – Telegraph Juncker: Trump wasn’t aggressive in saying Germany was ‘very bad’ – Politico 7 ‘tremendous’ Trump moments in Brussels – Politico Hopes for refugee crisis plan fall into chasm between G7 and Trump – Guardian Trump’s right about Germany – Danny Vinik for Politico G7 Summit: The EU eye-rolling and Trump tantrums must stop – there is more that unites us than divides us – Peter Foster for the Telegraph (£) Jeremy Corbyn tells Andrew Neil he ‘makes no promises’ to slash migration and says numbers will only go down if economy is strong Jeremy Corbyn has said he will make “no promises” to slash migration if he becomes Prime Minister next month. The Labour leader would only say he was in favour of “managed migration” when we quit the European Union… Mr Corbyn said: “We’ve had Theresa May promising in three elections to make cuts to immigration. I’m making no promises on that. We are in favour of managed immigration when the free movement ends when we leave the European Union.” – The Sun Andrew Stoler and Geoff Raby: Brexit Britain has no need to fear WTO terms Were the UK and EU unable to agree to a high-quality bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), it would be bizarre – and could only be attributable to bloody-mindedness by the EU… While neither the UK nor the EU is looking over a precipice, conducting trade on the basis of the WTO’s Most Favoured Nation (MFN) rules would cost the EU relatively more than the UK. While a high-quality FTA with the EU is the preferred outcome and in the best interests of both parties, the UK need not fear a world in which trade in goods and services and the regulatory disciplines that apply are those of the modern WTO. – Andrew Stoler and Geoff Raby for ConservativeHome Vince Cable: Re-Leavers won’t accept a ‘no deal’ Brexit as willingly as Theresa May thinks We have already seen a move away from Brexiteers versus Remainers to a more subtle three-way argument between hard-core Brexiteers and Remainers and a third group – the Re-Leavers – which has “moved on” and accepted the need “to make the best of a bad job” through a successful negotiation: an amicable divorce. Since Theresa May is most closely associated with this third group she has, so far, harvested the political benefit. My party, associated in the public mind with uncompromising Remainers, appears to have suffered, by contrast. But this may not be the end of the story… Then there is the end-point: a “bad deal or no deal”. On this point the pragmatic Remainers may not be as reconciled to leaving as the Government currently believes. – Vince Cable for the Independent Matthew Parris: May won’t say it but Brexit is all that matters It was supposed to be about Brexit, about giving her a “strong hand”; but, shrinking from that great question, she has lost the benefit of our doubt… The obvious feels too difficult to be confronted and, anyway, something has happened that cannot be undone. So it is with Brexit. What the hell are we doing having a general election just as the British government embarks on decisions about our nation’s future that will define the country we leave to our successors — without talking about Brexit? …Theresa May is all but struck dumb. The Labour Party is muted, trying to avoid an argument about whether it even wants this to happen. The Lib Dems, led by a glorified bingo caller, duck behind the cover of a hoped-for second referendum. Will nobody talk about Brexit? – Matthew Parris for The Times (£) Brexit comment in brief “We need an anti-Conservative force”: Nick Clegg wants to work with Labour after the election – Anoosh Chakelian for the New Statesman Theresa May aims to recover momentum as poll lead slips – Tom McTague for Politico This election and Brexit – John Redwood’s Diary Searching for Brexit consensus in the City of London – Martin Arnold for the FT (£) Tory immigration policy will harm the City and our economy – Christian May for City A.M. What we need to do to protect housebuilding after Brexit – Gwyn Roberts for City A.M. Brexit news in brief Who’s Tim? More than half of voters do not know who Tim Farron is – Telegraph UKIP endorses Labour’s ‘ultra-Remain’ Creagh over Tory Leaver in Wakefield – Guido Fawkes Legal & General announces plans to shift some operations from UK to Dublin – Independent Loss of trust in EU has social and economic consequences – EurActiv Macron plans to break union stranglehold during French holidays – The Times (£)