Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Donald Trump touches down in the UK ahead of NATO summit… Donald Trump has arrived in the UK for a meeting of the defence alliance Nato. The US president’s plane, Air Force One, landed at Stansted airport ahead of the three-day visit. Mr Trump is set to attend a reception for world leaders hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. The summit marking the 70th anniversary of Nato starts in Watford on Wednesday. His last UK two visits attracted protests and more demonstrations are expected during this stay. Scotland Yard has said road closures will be in place in central London during the Nato summit. President Trump is due to have separate talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. – BBC News …as Nigel Farage says NATO and a European defence union ‘cannot coexist’… NATO could collapse if the UK joined a European defence union, Nigel Farage said Monday. The Brexit Party leader claimed “NATO and a European defence union cannot coexist equally” and warned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he had to make a choice. “No man effectively can serve both,” Farage said Monday during a campaign event in Buckley, north Wales, on the eve of a NATO leaders’ summit in London. “We’ve got a decision to make. If we leave the European defence union, it becomes valueless. Because without [the U.K.], it doesn’t have the muscle that it needs,” Farage said. “But if we stay, don’t be surprised if NATO falls to pieces and we leave the security and protection that America had for us, thank God, twice in the last century.” – Politico …while Jeremy Corbyn writes to Trump demanding NHS ‘reassurances’ over a US trade deal… Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed US President Donald Trump to Britain with a letter demanding he will not try to push medicine prices up through a post-Brexit trade deal. To mark Mr Trump’s arrival in London for the start of the Nato meeting, Mr Corbyn has written to him asking for reassurances that his administration will not try to include selling higher-priced US drugs to the NHS on its trade wish list. Last week, the Labour Party leader called a press conference at which he brandished an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US and UK officials, where they discussed the stipulations of a free trade deal between the two nations after Britain leaves the European Union. – ITV News 500 NHS workers ask Trump to take NHS ‘off the table completely’ in trade talks as US president arrives in London. – Independent …and the Lib Dems urge protection of UK farmers in US trade talks Boris Johnson must use talks with President Donald Trump this week to protect British farmers and consumers in any post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the Liberal Democrats have said. Party leader Jo Swinson is calling on the Prime Minister to make sure discussions on the sidelines of a Nato summit in London make clear the UK will maintain its food standards. Ms Swinson claims that leaked documents from UK-US trade talks show American officials are pushing for Britain to allow greater use of chemicals in food production. This would include chlorine-washing chicken and growth hormones in beef cattle, according to the Lib Dems. The party also insists that Brexit would trigger loss of EU financial support for farmers, tariffs for the 80% of UK agricultural products that are traded with the EU and labour shortages due to the end of free movement. – ITV News Leavers urged to use tactical voting site or risk losing Brexit… Brexiteers will be told how to make their ballot paper count in the election using a tactical voting website. Unite2Leave will allow Leavers to see which Brexit-backing candidate has the greatest chance of winning in each constituency. The voting database was created by the former Brexit Party hopeful for Broxtowe Calvin Robinson. He said: “Brexit is on the line. We’ve fought so hard to take back control and to get out of the EU and we are so close to achieving that aim. But if voters aren’t tactical, we will lose it all. That’s why I stood down as Brexit Party candidate in Broxtowe. We are all united by our belief in Brexit and we must support the candidates who are best placed to deliver Brexit.” – Express > Calvin Robinson on BrexitCentral this morning: Make your vote count and vote for the Brexiteer best placed to win in your seat …as a survey suggests one third of voters will cast ballots tactically Almost a third of voters will mark their ballots tactically at the UK general election, a new poll suggests. A survey for the Electoral Reform Society by polling firm BMG found 30 percent of the public said they would be “voting for the best-positioned party/candidate to keep out another party/candidate that I dislike” in the UK’s December 12 election. That is up from 24 percent last week and around 22 percent nearer the start of the campaign. In the latest poll, seen by Politico, 51 percent said they would vote for “the candidate/party I most prefer, regardless of how likely they are to win,” and 19 percent said they did not know. Pro-EU campaigners have set up numerous websites that claim to advise the public how to cast their vote if they want to stop Brexit — some of which offer contradictory advice. – Politico Nicola Sturgeon demands a ‘seat at the table’ in Brexit talks in return for the SNP propping up Corbyn in a hung parliament Nicola Sturgeon today demanded a seat at the table in Brexit talks in return for the SNP propping up Jeremy Corbyn in a hung Parliament. The Scottish First Minister made clear her party should be directly represented in the renegotiation Labour says it would launch with the EU. The SNP’s support will be critical in whether Mr Corbyn can grab power if Boris Johnson falls short of an overall majority on December 12. Ms Sturgeon has already said she wants Labour to permit another independence referendum on breaking up the union, as well as the scrapping of the Trident nuclear deterrent. – Daily Mail Seven in ten people want an Australian-style cap on work visas issued to migrants after Brexit Seven in ten people want an Australian-style cap on the number of work visas issued to migrants after Brexit, a poll revealed last night (MON). Boris Johnson has promised an Australian-style points-based immigration system to apply to all arrivals if he wins the election but the plans do not include an overall cap on work permits. Laying bare the pressure on the PM to toughen up his proposals, 71 per cent of the public want a cap and this rises to a huge 86 per cent of Tory voters, according to a Deltapoll survey for Migration Watch UK. Three quarters of those sampled in Conservative-held marginal constituencies were also in favour. The campaign group said the survey exposed the public’s overwhelming support for a much tighter immigration system after Brexit to bring numbers down. – The Sun Len McCluskey says a ‘big number’ of Unite members won’t vote Labour Unite boss Len McCluskey has revealed that a “big number” of the union’s members are not ready to vote Labour. The General Secretary said that there are “huge numbers of people who are still undecided” in “important weathervane” seats in the north and midlands. Mr McCluskey told HuffPost UK: “We did a survey of 75,000 of our own Unite members and got a lot of information, different sectors different areas of our union, and different areas of the country. It’s reinforced the fact that there is still a big don’t know group there. And that encourages me to an extent because I believe if people are not sure then trying to get them to look, in a sense, beyond Brexit, and to the type of country we want to be in the future.” Mr McCluskey has told his union activists that Leave-voting areas are Labour’s “Achilles Heel” in the Dec 12 election, and that it has to tackle “the very real issues” of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. He added: “Our Achilles heel is in our communities, in what’s known as our heartlands, that voted Leave and are not quite sure yet whether they will give their vote to Labour. – Telegraph (£) UKIP launches manifesto… The UK Independence Party has launched a “Brexit and beyond” manifesto with a commitment to leaving the EU on 31 January 2020 without a deal. Interim leader Pat Mountain said the PM’s withdrawal agreement would keep the UK “shackled to Brussels”. The party also wants to cut net immigration to below 10,000 per year. It is standing in 44 seats across the UK – a substantially reduced number from the 378 candidates they stood in 2017. Speaking to Sky News, Ms Mountain said the number of candidates had been “carefully chosen” in order not to “do any damage to any actual Brexiter”. Writing in the manifesto, she said UKIP was “the party of Brexit and beyond”. – BBC News …as its acting leader struggles through an interview on Sky News You could say Ukip’s interim leader had a bit of a shocker during an appearance on Sky News this morning. Pat Mountain struggled to give any details about her party, its candidates or their pledges before suffering a slip of the tongue in appearing to call Ukip ‘racist’. The party has suffered from supporters moving to back Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party or the Conservatives with their slogan to ‘get Brexit done’. It has fielded just 43 candidates, hoping to add to its three historical MPs, Bob Spink, Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell – all of whom defected from the Tories. When asked if any of Ukip’s current candidates were black, Ms Mountain said: ‘No, but we do have – I think he’s Indian.’ Host Adam Boulton then asked her what she thinks of Tommy Robinson, to which she replied some Ukip members were ‘sympathetic’ towards the former English Defence League leader. – Metro > WATCH: Interim UKIP leader Pat Mountain on All Out Politics Priti Patel: EU membership is incompatible with the vigorous border security we need Three years ago, the British people voted to take back control of our money laws and borders. As Home Secretary, control of our borders is my responsibility. I see the constraints EU law places on our ability to secure our border all the time. Whether it involves criminality such as smuggling of people, drugs and weapons or our inability to stop dangerous criminals coming into the country, it’s clear to me that EU membership is incompatible with the vigorous border security I and the British people want to see. Under EU law, previous criminal convictions do not in themselves count as a reason to deny entry to, or deport someone. My powers as Home Secretary to deny entry to EU citizens who have committed serious crimes are severely limited in scope. Ultimately it is up to a court in Luxembourg to decide whether or not dangerous criminals from the EU can make Britain their home. – Priti Patel for the Telegraph (£) Asa Bennett: The Tories cannot take Nigel Farage for granted if they want to be Brexit champions Dominic Cummings’s admission last week that the Brexit Party had a “realistic chance of winning” a few seats (“at most I think there are one or two, certainly less than five”) will have made bittersweet reading for Nigel Farage. This may have been intended as a put-down from Mr Cummings, but the Brexit Party leader and his allies can chalk it up as vindication. This is, broadly speaking, the number of seats they have realistically been aiming at taking off Labour all along, with Mr Farage publicly pointing to the DUP as an example of what influence a party can have in a hung parliament with no more than 10 seats. Mr Cummings’ recognition that the Brexit Party could turn some seats turquoise ought to have been a sweet moment for its leader. – Asa Bennett for the Telegraph (£) James Crisp: EU threats to cut off the City after Brexit are empty – for now The European Commission’s threats to cut off British financial services firms from the EU’s single market must be taken with a pinch of salt, at least in the short to medium term. Valdis Dombrovskis, the commissioner in charge of financial services, warned this week the bloc would take action if Britain diverged too far from the rules and regulations set by Brussels after Brexit. The future EU-UK financial services relationship will be governed by “equivalence” rather than the “passport” to the single market that British-headquartered firms have enjoyed. Equivalence governs the bloc’s relationship with non-EU countries such as the US. It is based on the idea that the country’s regulatory regime achieves the same goals as the EU’s system. It can be unilaterally withdrawn by the European Commission at short notice and with no right of appeal. – James Crisp for the Telegraph (£) Michael Deacon: Look out, Leavers: Hugh Grant is doing his ‘modest bit’ to stop Brexit Imagine it. One morning, your doorbell rings. You shuffle downstairs, expecting to see the postman with a Christmas parcel. But it isn’t the postman. Nor is it the gas man, a Jehovah’s witness, or a dubious-looking man purporting to sell domestic cleaning products. No. It’s Hugh Grant. “Ah! Er. Yes. Good, er, morning, madam. My name is, ah, Hugh, and I’m here with… well, anyway, the very fine Liberal Democrat candidate for… your area. And, ah, we were rather hoping – if it isn’t too much trouble – that, not to put too fine a point on it, you would accept this rather lovely, well, item of campaign literature, I suppose you could call it – do take a look, if you happen to get a moment, it contains some terribly, um, informative bar charts…” – Michael Deacon for the Telegraph (£) Brexit in Brief Now we must focus on getting Brexit done – and on Labour’s threat to wages, job and savings – Liam Fox for ConservativeHome Sturgeon’s laughable solution to Scottish fishermen wanting to block EU from waters – Express Focus group: Can Tories win over people who voted Labour and Leave? – Channel 4