Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Theresa May faces a Commons fight with Brexiteers if she gives in to Brussels on trade, Jacob Rees-Mogg warns Theresa May faces a fresh round of Brexit battles in the Commons despite winning the struggle over the EU Withdrawal Bill, she was warned today. After seeing off a rebellion from pro-EU backbenchers, the PM must now face down Brexiteers who are worried she’s giving too much ground to Brussels. Their ringleader Jacob Rees-Mogg today warned Mrs May that the Eurosceptics could become the next group to rebel in Parliament. Asked if he was sure the pro-EU Tories would stay loyal to the PM, Mr Rees-Mogg told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The certainty may have to be the other way round.” – The Sun Jacob Rees-Mogg: MPs can’t delay Brexit – BBC News Dominic Raab calls on Theresa May not to ‘cower in a corner’ in Brexit negotiations – PoliticsHome > LISTEN on BrexitCentral’s YouTube Channel: Jacob Rees-Mogg: £39 bn deal relying on EU’s good faith would be ‘very hard’ to pass in parliament > Jacob Rees-Mogg on BrexitCentral today: My vision for a global-facing, outward-looking post-Brexit Britain Emily Thornberry accuses ‘dishonest’ pro-EU Labour MPs of trying to overturn referendum The Shadow Foreign Secretary suggested many of them were doing it as a cover for their true goal of stopping Brexit. Specifically, Ms Thornberry took a swipe at Chuka Umunna, who has been accused of hatching a plan to start a new party called ‘Back Together’. Some 75 Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn last week to back an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill calling for EEA membership – also known as the Norway option. Speaking at a Westminster lunch, Ms Thornberry compared the Labour rebels – who are opposed to Jeremy Corbyn’s stance on quitting the EU – to the European Research Group, which is made up of pro-Brexit Conservative MPs. Among their demands is for the Government to back a so-called ‘Max Fac’ customs deal with the EU based on technological solutions to the Irish border problem. – PoliticsHome Government unveils simplified residency scheme for EU citizens… EU citizens will have to answer three “simple” questions online if they want to continue living in the UK after Brexit, the home secretary has said. Sajid Javid said the government’s “default” position would be to grant, not refuse, settled status. People will be asked to prove their ID, whether they have criminal convictions and whether they live in the UK. Their answers will be checked against government databases and a decision given “very quickly”, said Mr Javid. The scheme will operate online and via a smartphone app, Mr Javid said, and would be “as simple as people can reasonably expect”, with most decisions turned around within two weeks or sooner. – BBC News Three ‘simple’ requirements for EU citizens to stay in UK – Politico …with nearly four million EU nationals expected to apply for the right to stay in the UK… Nearly four million EU nationals and their families will be given the right to settle in the UK, the Home Office has revealed, as it emerged hardened criminals could be among them. Under new rules EU nationals living in Britain will be handed the automatic right to stay as long as they pay £65 to apply, or £32.50 for children. But officials revealed they are planning for 3.8 million applications, around 600,000 more than previously expected, because they do not know how many European nationals are living in Britain already. Anyone from the EU who comes to the UK before the end of the implementation period in 2020 will have the right to apply for settled status, the Home Office has said, meaning the true number could be far higher. – Telegraph (£) …while Brussels plots to make Britons buy £50 visas to visit Europe as EU gets ready for a no-deal Brexit Brussels could force Britons to buy £50 visas to travel in Europe after Brexit, draft plans handed to MEPs have revealed today. The proposal is contained in a dossier of potential changes to EU laws being drawn up by the European Commission, run by Jean-Claude Juncker, to prepare for Brexit. The Brussels list makes provision for Britain to be put on either the ‘visa required’ or the ‘visa free’ list once it is no longer an EU member. If Britain is ruled to be a nation where people need visas, travellers to the continent could have to pay more than £50 for the right paperwork. Last month Brussels unveiled separate plans to charge £7 administration fees for travellers into the EU – a fee seen as likely to hit Britain whatever the final deal on visas. – Daily Mail Philip Hammond inists Treasury is not the ‘enemy of Brexit’ The Treasury is not “the enemy of Brexit”, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has insisted. In a speech in the City of London, Mr Hammond said the UK needed to protect patterns of trade with the EU that had been “built over decades”. The chancellor also used his Mansion House speech to confirm taxes will have to go up to boost spending on the NHS. But he said the increase would be partly funded by lower contributions to Brussels post-Brexit. In the past the chancellor has come under fire from supporters of Brexit. Earlier this month Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called the Treasury “the heart of Remain”, in comments to a private dinner. However, addressing a City audience on Thursday, Mr Hammond said the “immediate key” to the UK and London’s economic success was “ensuring we get a good Brexit deal”. – BBC News EU risks damaging its ability to compete with rest of world if it pushes London financial services away, Philip Hammond warns – Independent Bank of England to get sweeping new powers as Chancellor says UK will not be a rule-taker from Brussels The Bank of England has been handed vast new powers to pump money into Britain’s banks without sign-off from the Treasury. Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, is giving the Bank an extra £1.2bn in a capital injection which officials can then leverage up to give out loans totalling more than £750bn. It comes after the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted by six members to three to keep interest rates flat – but chief economist Andy Haldane voted to put rates up to 0.75pc, sending markets into a frenzy of speculation that rates will rise in August. At the annual Mansion House dinner in the City of London, the Chancellor reiterated his call to make sure the UK does not become a rule-taker from Brussels, and can instead continue to lead the world in high-quality regulation. If the City does have to follow European rules, it could undermine its “stability” as the regulations are increasingly designed to “force the location of business into the EU”.- Telegraph (£) Divided Cabinet united against EU’s Irish border plan as Juncker warns of no deal Brexit… Britain’s divided Cabinet is united in its rejection of the European Commission’s plan for a backstop clause to prevent a hard border in Ireland, The Telegraph has learned, as Jean-Claude Juncker warned that a no deal Brexit was still a possibility. “I know of no member of the Cabinet in London who would be prepared to sign up to the Commission text. And I include the most ardent of Remainers in that,” a senior Cabinet source said. “Unionism is fundamental to how the Conservative party sees itself,” the source said of the EU plan which would create border checks between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain rather than on the Irish border. – Telegraph (£) …while the Commission President tells Irish politicians ‘I wish I were drunk’ in bizarre speech blasting UK over Brexit Jean-claude Juncker admitted he’d “prefer to be drunk” as he gave a speech blasting British attempts to isolate Ireland over the border issue. The Brussels boss made the bizarre joke at the start of an address to Irish MPs in which he criticised the UK for briefing against Dublin to other EU capitals.The 63-year-old was seen to struggle down a set of stairs as he made his way to the podium in the country’s parliament. In a nod to his reputation as a big drinker, the EU chief explained that he was “not drunk” but has difficulties walking due to sciatica sustained in a car crash. – The Sun Brexit: ‘You are not alone’, Juncker tells Irish government – BBC News EU’s Juncker says backing of Irish Brexit position will not change – Reuters Stop being ‘defeatist’ about Brexit, Britons told by US Ambassador to London Theresa May should take “inspiration” from Donald Trump in the Brexit negotiations and cast off Britain’s “defeatist” attitude, according to the US ambassador to the UK. Interviewed for a new Channel 4 documentary, Woody Johnson questioned why the UK was “so nervous” about the prospects of leaving the EU, a process that in his view need not present a “major challenge”. His comments come soon after Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, told a group of Tory donors that if Donald Trump was in charge of Brexit “actually you might get somewhere”. It came as Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, insisted the Treasury was not the “enemy of Brexit” but rather the “champion of prosperity for the British people outside the EU”. – Telegraph Well said, US Ambassador. We will do well from Brexit – John Redwood’s Diary Fresh alarm in Italy as apostles of ‘Italexit’ take control of parliament Hard-line eurosceptics have swept all the key posts in the budget and finance committees of the Italian parliament, shattering the brief calm in the bond markets and guaranteeing a showdown with Brussels over spending rules. The cohort of anti-euro legislators from the Five Star Movement and the ‘Italy First’ Lega party will have a powerful say of over fiscal policy and may make it almost impossible for technocrat ministers in the new Italian government to enforce the EU’s draconian ‘bail-in’ rules for banks. Yields on 2-year Italian debt rocketed by 35 basis points to 0.93pc, and the risk spread over 10-year German Bunds jumped to 240 points. The Milan bourse fell 2pc, led by Unicredit and Ubi Banca. – Telegraph (£) Theresa May refuses to say Britain will remain a ‘tier one’ military power amid row over defence spending Theresa May has refused to commit publicly to Britain remaining a “tier one” military power amid fresh concerns from defence chiefs about Armed Forces budgets. The Prime Minister became embroiled in a row with military top brass and the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson after it emerged she had asked for a formal definition of what constitutes a “tier one” power during a discussion about the ongoing UK defence review. It prompted fears that Mrs May is prepared to contemplate downgrading Britain’s military status after making the NHS her top spending priority. Speaking in Downing Street after a meeting with the Nato General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, Mrs May insisted Britain would remain a “leading defence nation”. – Telegraph (£) Greg Hands quits as minister over Heathrow expansion… Junior trade minister Greg Hands has resigned from the government to oppose expansion of Heathrow Airport. The vote on whether to build a third runway at the airport west of London is due to be held on Monday. Mr Hands, who represents the Chelsea and Fulham constituency in London, said he had pledged to oppose the new runway at the 2017 election. It had been thought that ministers with constituencies directly affected could have been allowed to miss the vote. – BBC News …and George Hollingbery is appointed to replace him at the Department for International Trade George Hollingbery is the ultimate safe choice to replace Greg Hands at International Trade. He was Theresa May’s PPS when she was Home Secretary, and has been her PPS since she became Prime Minister. Other than a brief spell in the Whips’ Office during the late Cameron period that is his only experience on the Government payroll. So this is quite a leg up – from PPS to Minister of State in a single bound. His background is in business as an entrepreneur. The Prime Minister will presumably need another PPS to replace him, who will join a second one – Seema Kennedy, who by all accounts is effective in the post. – ConservativeHome Andrew Pierce: Meet the City spinmeister orchestrating the plot to reverse Brexit Within minutes of the secret meeting of Brexit saboteurs in Smith Square finishing on Wednesday, Roland Rudd, the shadowy multi-millionaire spin doctor behind the campaign to derail Brexit, was in receipt of a full report. In his open-plan office on the 13th floor of the iconic Adelphi Building, with its panoramic views of Westminster, the man dubbed the ‘godfather of Remain’ was on the phone, demanding that every cough and spit be relayed to him. Increasingly, he believes he scents victory. Rudd, an oleaginous charmer with just a hint of the spiv, is the boss of a City PR firm and a lifelong EU fanatic who set up the pressure group Open Britain immediately after the EU referendum in June 2016. Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Catherine Neilan: Hammond is right – the City must learn to look beyond Brexit Throughout the Brexit process to date, the City has learned to fend for itself. Politicians are always more inclined to address manufactures in the Midlands than suits in the Square Mile. This is why the chancellor’s annual Mansion House address is important. It’s a rare opportunity to show a bit of love to the country’s most valuable sector. Last night, Philip Hammond sought to lift the City’s gaze beyond Brexit. Indeed, beyond the EU. As important as it is to secure a workable deal on financial services, Hammond rightly identified bigger fish to fry, and bigger prizes to be won. – Catherine Neilan for City A.M. Brexit in brief On defence, the EU is shooting everyone in the foot – Get Britain Out’s Stephen Mitchell for CapX Brussels has won – a ‘meaningful’ vote in parliament won’t change that – Walter Ellis for Reaction Two years on, many still don’t understand why the UK voted for Brexit – Matt Singh for CapX Europe’s high stakes bluff on trade – Dr Joe Zammit Lucia and Robert McDougall for CommentCentral The Brexit vote was an arcane victory – Telegraph editorial (£) The EU can learn from Britain on the treatment of immigrants – Telegraph editorial (£) Airbus threatens to pull out of UK if no Brexit deal reached – City A.M. Fears for expats living in Europe as EU bosses ‘refuse to guarantee they’ll be able to stay after Brexit’ – The Sun Migrants buy Russia World Cup tickets in bid to claim EU asylum – Telegraph (£) Fox says there is now zero chance of stopping Brexit – Reuters Thai Minister sees good opportunity for trade with UK – Bloomberg Michael Gove promises Scottish farmers ‘special treatment’ after Brexit – Telegraph (£) No country has agreed to host offshore EU migrant centres, Brussels admits as migration divisions widen – Telegraph