Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Theresa May: Brussels must pay its own Brexit bill of billions of pounds Brussels must pay its own Brexit bill of billions of pounds for Britain’s share of the European Investment Bank and other joint projects, Theresa May has indicated. The Prime Minister says in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph that “money paid in the past” by the UK must be taken into account in the final divorce bill. She insisted that the UK has financial “rights” that must be respected during discussions about payments as well as “obligations” to the body it is leaving. – Telegraph …as Davis warns Britain will quit talks if EU demands €100bn Britain will walk away from Brexit talks unless Brussels drops demands to charge it €100bn to leave the European Union, David Davis warns today. In an interview with The Sunday Times, the Brexit secretary said the negotiations would be plunged into “crisis” from the off because the EU refused to discuss a trade deal until Britain agreed to pay up. In a warning shot at Brussels, Davis said the other member states would have to shift their position if they wanted to see progress, declaring that he regarded even “£1bn as a lot of money”. – Sunday Times (£) ‘Old Knuckleduster’ in the mood for a scrap with EU – Sunday Times (£) …and pro-European cabinet minister Damian Green calls on Remain voters to back May The most pro-European member of Theresa May’s cabinet has appealed to Remain voters to abandon hope that Brexit can be reversed – and instead back the prime minister to secure a “special partnership” with the EU. The appeal to those who voted to stay in the EU, including Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National party supporters – by work and pensions secretary Damian Green – is the Tories’ latest attempt to widen their appeal for the 8 June general election. – Observer Paul Nuttall: Ukip will be bigger than ever in two years Ukip´s leader admitted he is not confident he will be elected next month before claiming the party will be stronger than ever in two years. With just 19 days to go before the country heads to the polls, Paul Nuttall refused to be pinned down on how many seats his party would win in the General Election… Asked if he thinks the party will next month top the 3.9 million votes it garnered at the General Election in 2015, Mr Nuttall told the Press Association that they would not… Pressed on whether the party is doomed and finished, he said “no”, adding: “Ukip in two years time will be bigger than it’s ever been.” – Press Association New EU army headquarters branded little more than a ‘call centre’ A much-touted EU military headquarters set to be launched in the coming days has been dismissed as a “call centre” that will be staffed by “eight to nine people” with other jobs. EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini confirmed this week that a so-called Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) facility would finally be formally launched in a few days. Although the UK blocked the creation of the EU military unit this week, objecting to use of the words “operational HQ” in the text, there was scant concern about its remit, said a Whitehall source. – Telegraph French armed forces minister eyes closer EU military cooperation – Politico US giants lobby ministers over Brexit Representatives from American corporate heavyweights Coca-Cola, Bank of New York Mellon, State Street and BlackRock have lobbied government officials to express concerns about the impact Brexit could have on their Irish business. Lobby returns released last week show that executives from the companies met with senior government figures including finance minister Michael Noonan in the months ahead of the British prime minister Theresa May triggering article 50 to begin the process of Britain leaving the EU. – Sunday Times (£) Keep door to world open, warns CBI boss The president of the CBI has gone to war with Theresa May over her plans to slash immigration numbers. Paul Drechsler warned that closing the door to top talent is the “one issue” weighing heavily on British business. “Everything else we can deal with,” he said. Theresa May shocked businesses at the launch of the Conservatives’ manifesto last week, when she restated a plan to cut net immigration to the “tens of thousands”. She also wants to double an annual levy on skilled workers from outside the EU to £2,000. – Sunday Times (£) Corbyn is right to say free movement must end after Brexit, says LabourList readers Jeremy Corbyn was right to state that free movement will come to an end after Brexit, LabourList readers have said. Half of respondents backed Corbyn’s stance, with 35 per cent thinking he was wrong, and 14 per cent unsure. In an interview with ITV’s Tonight programme Corbyn made this clear, as he opened up about his school days and his dislike of the “implicit privilege” at the grammar he attended. – Labour List Lib Dems launch poster campaign comparing Theresa May to Nigel Farage Vince Cable, the Lib Dem economics spokesman and former business secretary, said the Conservatives had “adopted wholesale” Ukip’s stance on Brexit, as well as Mr Farage’s warm view of US president Donald Trump. The former Ukip leader is the “architect in chief” of Mrs May’s approach to the negotiations with the European Union, he claimed. He also cited Ukip’s decision not to stand candidates in many Tory-held seats to accuse the two parties of forming a “regressive alliance”. – Politics Home Brexit talks are illegal as thousands of expats could not vote in EU referendum, claims French lawyer A French lawyer is seeking to prove that the Brexit negotiations are illegal and should be cancelled because thousands of British citizens living overseas were denied the vote in last year’s referendum. Julien Fouchet has received hundreds of testimonies from Britons living in the EU, who were denied the right to vote because they have lived outside of the UK for more than 15 years. – Independent Chris Murray: Macron is bad news for Britain’s borders French President Emmanuel Macron’s victory in France was greeted across Europe with an audible sigh of relief, and now many across the Continent are watching eagerly to see if he can carry out the reforms he promised on the campaign trail. In the U.K., however, the outlook is at best mixed. On the one hand, there’s the sense of a bullet dodged with the defeat of Macron’s far-right opponent Marine Le Pen. On the other, there’s the fact that one of the young president’s pledges was to renegotiate the Treaty of Le Touquet, a bilateral border control agreement that has kept tens of thousands of migrants headed for Britain on the French side of the Channel. – Chris Murray for Politico Tony Parsons: Luvvie Remainers like author Ian McEwan want Brexiteers dead – but they all face extinction on 8th June I can’t understand these shrill calls for a second EU referendum by the Monster Raving Lib Dem Party. Surely that’s exactly what we are having right now? The polling stations for the second EU referendum open at 7am on Thursday, June 8. You don’t want Brexit? Here is your final chance to stop it and thwart democracy. Embittered Remainers need to get out there on the campaign trail for anyone but the Tories. Frankly, they are spoilt for choice. Whatever way they spin it, the Lib Dems, the SNP, Labour and the Greens are all against us leaving the EU. But Remainers prefer to indulge in wishful thinking. Ian McEwan, the elderly novelist, predicts that Brexit will not actually happen because those of us who voted for it will die of old age. – Tony Parsons for The Sun John Denham: Voters who backed Brexit changed something. The problem for Labour is they like the feeling If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal,” said the American anarchist Emma Goldman. Ms Goldman might find canvassing in this UK election rather disconcerting. For large numbers of voters – mainly Leavers but some Remainers too – voting has changed something. They like the feeling. With Brexit “we” made a choice; “we” made something happen. (And “we” did something that most of “them” didn’t want us to do). That is more important to many than whether the decision was necessarily a good one; after all no one can really tell. – John Denham for the New Statesman Brexit comment in brief Thousands of Britons are still waiting to find out what Brexit will do to their livelihoods – Christopher Booker for the Telegraph You can take your hands off your ears — that Brexit boom won’t be heard round here – Cormac Lucey for the Sunday Times (£) Do we really care about Brexit? – Jason Farrell for Sky News Brexit news in brief SNP shows promising pragmatism with Brexit reset – The Scotsman Draconian EU vaping rules show why we have to have a full clean Brexit – UKIP Blackrock’s Harrison says big Tory win boosts May’s hand on Brexit – Bloomberg