Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team UK to start the two-year process of taking back control of its fishing waters The UK government is to withdraw from an agreement which allows foreign fisherman access to British waters. It has announced it will begin the process of leaving the London Fisheries Convention, giving two years notice of its intention. Signed in 1964, it allows vessels from six European countries to fish between six and 12 miles from the coast. UK environment secretary Michael Gove said it was an important step in “taking back control” of fishing. British vessels will lose the right to fish in waters belonging to the other countries which signed the convention: France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. – BBC News Britain to withdraw from fishing deal which will see France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Holland banned from UK waters – The Sun on Sunday UK to end half century of fishing rights in Brexit slap to EU – Bloomberg Theresa May could storm out of Brexit talks over the “divorce bill” Number 10 has told business leaders that Theresa May could storm out of Brexit talks over the “divorce bill”, The Telegraph can reveal. A senior Downing Street figure briefed industry and City bosses to prepare for the Prime Minister walking away from negotiations in September. The move would be designed for “domestic consumption” to show Mrs May was playing tough over the €100 billion (£87.7 billion) some EU figures want the UK to pay before leaving. – Telegraph A Eurosceptic think tank insisted Britain had a “very strong negotiating hand and shouldn’t be afraid to play it”. Jonathan Isaby, of Brexit Central, dismissed EU tough talk as “posturing you would expect at the opening of a negotiation”. He added: “There is no reason for us to take an existing model for a deal off the shelf when we can ensure one is created to fit our unique circumstances.” – Sun on Sunday Scientists and artists unite to warn: ‘give the young a say in shaping Brexit’ Leading European figures in culture, science and education, including physics professor and TV presenter Brian Cox and artist Mark Wallinger, will warn Britain’s EU negotiators this week of the damage that a hard Brexit would do to the UK and the rest of Europe. – Observer In Theresa we trust: Prime Minister is the leader to deliver Brexit, poll declares… The Prime Minister is trusted more than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to take Britain out of the EU. A Survation survey shows 51 per cent trust Theresa May the most to negotiate the best deal for Britain. Just 35 per cent of the 1,017 polled think Mr Corbyn is up to the job. – Express …as same Survation poll suggests Remain ‘would win Brexit referendum if held now’ The outcome of the Brexit referendum would be reversed if it was held tomorrow, a poll suggests. The Survation survey showed a clear majority of Britons (54%) would vote to Remain in the European Union if another referendum was held while 46% would back Brexit. – Telegraph Poll finds that 60% of Britons want to keep their EU citizenship Six out of 10 Britons want to keep their European Union citizenship after Brexit – including the rights to live, work, study and travel in the EU – and many would be prepared to pay large sums to do so, according to research led by the London School of Economics. Support for retaining the rights is particularly strong among 18- to 24-year-olds, 85% of whom want to retain their EU citizenship in addition to their British citizenship. Around 80% of people living in London also want to maintain the same rights. – Observer Andrea Leadsom MP: As Britain leaves the European Union, let us do so in a way that brings this country together Our negotiations with the EU will no longer be conducted under the shadow of a general election looming in 2020. And we now have a Parliament in which the vast majority of MPs stood on a manifesto that is committed to Brexit. So we will work to unite as many people as possible behind our Brexit plans, and the great possibilities that leaving the European Union offer for our country. Preparing for our bright new future outside the EU requires a lot of legislation, as we set out in our Queen’s Speech. On Thursday that Queen’s Speech was passed, so now we can get on with the job. – Andrea Leadsom MP for the Telegraph Nigel Farage: Why I’ve decided against standing to lead Ukip In many ways, what happens in that parliament over the next two years is perhaps as important as everything that goes on in Westminster. Of course I want a full and proper Brexit, and if in 2019 we reach the end of the Article 50 process and a huge gap is left, whether that is not taking back our fishing rights, the continuation of free movement or still paying Brussels too much money, I would not hesitate in throwing myself back into the front line of domestic politics. – Nigel Farage for the Telegraph Charles Moore: Reasoned democracy, not slinking back to the EU, is a much better antidote to Jeremy Corbyn Somewhere inside the Conservative psyche, there is an element that confuses the electorate with the mob. If it is really the way you feel, you should indeed try to stay inside the EU, because its entire structure is designed to favour a “wise” elite and keep the grubby crowds at bay. If you believe in parliamentary democracy, however, you will believe that voters will listen to reason, if only you bestir yourself to trust them. Then Jeremy Corbyn will lose. – Charles Moore for the Telegraph Annabelle Chapman: What Brexit means to Poland ‘Just think of America; there’s so much of everything there! And Australia, too,’ said the passenger beside me, a Pole with an impressive white moustache, as we flew east from London. He had laughed when I asked if Brexit keeps him awake at night, with the uncertainty over the future of EU citizens living in Britain. As we flew over sleeping Berlin, this man, who has been working at a London hotel for the past decade, was full of optimism. He had, he said, paid his taxes to HMRC over the years and braved the damp of Victorian-era lodgings. Britain was home now. Forget French cheese and wine; the riches of the Commonwealth await. Things could only get better, he thought, for his family in London and for Britain. – Annabelle Chapman for the Spectator Adam Boulton: No 10 drifts like the Mary Celeste, unable to navigate the reef of Brexit Accepting a hard Brexit could speed up the negotiations. If out means out, the UK will not be looking for much. Securing a new relationship with the EU from the outside will become the priority before the March 2019 deadline. – Adam Boulton for the Sunday Times (£) Varadkar offers Kenny his choice of role in Brexit talks Leo Varadkar has invited Enda Kenny, his predecessor as taoiseach, to play a role in Ireland’s team for the Brexit negotiations, in order to take advantage of Kenny’s strong relationships with European leaders. – Sunday Times (£) Brexit in brief We must do better at explaining the unseen benefits of free trade – Molly Kiniry for the Telegraph UK’s establishment tries to undermine UK Brexit position again – John Redwood MP for John Redwood’s Diary EU and Japan set to agree trade deal after talks progress – FT (£) Vince Cable sets out his views on Brexit, immigration and freedom of movement – Mark Pack’s blog Europhile Lord Patten says UK must now be confident in Brexit talks – Express The EU referendum one year on: the EU position – UK in a changing EU World leaders pay tribute to Germany’s Kohl – FT (£)