Majority of Cabinet’ now supports Canada-style Brexit deal and will urge May to ditch Chequers plan at meeting today… A majority of the Cabinet now supports moving towards a Canada-style trade deal with the EU following the outright rejection of Theresa May’s Chequers plan, the Prime Minister will be told. Mrs May will be urged to rethink her approach to the Brexit negotiations by favouring a free trade agreement that would represent the “clean Brexit” that Leave supporters voted for. Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, has emerged as a key figure in the Brexiteers’ fight to convince Mrs May to change tack. A former Remain campaigner, Mr Hunt is now squarely in the Leave camp and has publicly indicated that he is open to the idea of a Canada-style deal. – Telegraph (£) …although No. 10 still seem wedded to the existing proposal… Those in cabinet backing a shift towards a Canada-style deal deny that it would lead to a border in the Irish Sea, although it would be dependent on the EU agreeing to soften its position on border checks if a Brexit deal looked within reach. No 10 sources said that alternative proposals for the border had already been rejected by Brussels. One said: “There aren’t any easy solutions to any of these problems. We know that the idea of a Canada-style free trade deal cannot and would not happen without the backstop.” One cabinet minister warned that colleagues should wait to see what counter-proposals to Chequers were put forward by Brussels in early October before looking at other options: “If they wholesale reject Chequers then we will have to do something before we get to no deal, but not until then.” – Guardian …as Dominic Raab tells Brussels that Britain won’t be dictated to over Brexit… The U.K. will hold its nerve and “not be dictated to” in talks with the EU about its departure from the bloc, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Sunday. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show he reiterated the government’s line that Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan is the only viable one on the table. “We’re not just going to flit from plan to plan like some sort of diplomatic butterfly,” said Raab. And echoing a defiant statement on Friday by May following an acrimonious end to the EU leaders summit in Salzburg, Austria, last week he said he would not accept “anything that threatens the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.” “What I think we need to do is hold our nerve, keep our cool and keep on negotiating in good faith,” he said. – Politico > Watch on BrexitCentral’s YouTube Channel: Dominic Raab on the Andew Marr show …while the Institute of Economic Affairs prepares to publish ‘Plan A+’ with high-profile Brexiteer backing this morning Britain should put the deadlocked Brexit negotiations with the European Union on the backburner and open trade talks with rest of the world, according to a radical plan backed by Boris Johnson and David Davis. The 140-page plan to be from the Institute of Economic Affairs recommends seeking global trade deals now to force the EU to give Britain a better trade deal after leaving the EU next March. The report – titled “Plan A+: Creating a prosperous post-Brexit UK” – will offer a way out for Theresa May after her humiliating Salzburg summit where EU leaders said her Chequers deal was unworkable. By opening talks now the UK could accelerate the signing of trade deals after Brexit which could be worth a as much as 7 per cent on Britain’s gross domestic product by the middle of the 2030s. – Telegraph (£) Sajid Javid angers Brexiteers with ‘cop out’ on EU migrants Cabinet ministers will be asked to grant limitless access to European Union migrants for more than two years after a “no-deal” Brexit, The Times has learnt. In a move that will dismay Brexiteers, Sajid Javid, the home secretary, will propose that EU citizens be waved through the border for 30 months if Britain crashes out of the bloc. Any EU citizen arriving between next March and September 2021 will be allowed to live temporarily in Britain as long as they show their passport and pass a criminal record check. During this period they will have to apply for a visa under a new migration system to stay permanently. The revelation will provoke concerns among Brexiteers who want to “take back control” quickly in the event of a no-deal exit. Some have demanded that Britain move immediately to a “global” system under which EU migrants are not given preferential treatment. Mr Javid is understood to have argued that the delay in changing the migration system is needed to protect the economy. – The Times (£) Labour conference will vote on motion tomorrow keeping open option of second referendum… Labour members are to vote on keeping “all options on the table” on Brexit, including possibly campaigning for a new referendum at their conference in Liverpool. The party’s leadership wants a general election allowing Labour to take control of negotiations if it won. However some members want the party to pursue a “people’s vote” on Brexit. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accepted he would be “bound” by the outcome of Tuesday’s conference motion. – BBC News …as Jeremy Corbyn comes under pressure from all sides on Brexit policy… Senior allies of Jeremy Corbyn questioned the rationale for a fresh Brexit referendum on Sunday, as grassroots Labour campaigners ramped up the pressure on the party to shift its position towards a “people’s vote”. Corbyn raised hopes for a new referendum when he told the Sunday Mirror he would support the idea if members vote for it when Brexit is debated at Labour’s conference in Liverpool on Tuesday. “I was elected to empower the members of the party. So if conference makes a decision, I will not walk away from it and I will act accordingly,” he said… As more than 100 delegates had gathered for a “compositing” meeting on Sunday evening to thrash out the Brexit motion that will be voted on by conference, a string of Corbyn’s senior supporters underlined their concerns about a “people’s vote”. – Guardian Despite the calls for a second referendum, Labour’s Brexit stance remains as clear as mud – Telegraph editorial (£) > Watch on BrexitCentral’s YouTube Channel: Jeremy Corbyn talks Brexit on the Andrew Marr show …with Unite boss Len McCluskey saying any new referendum must exclude ‘Remain’ option The leader of the union that is Labour’s biggest financial backer has said remaining in the EU must not be an option in any new referendum on Brexit. Len McCluskey said it would be “wrong” and would risk pushing Labour voters who had backed Leave in the 2016 referendum to support the Conservatives. Instead he said any referendum must be on whether to approve the deal Theresa May agrees with Brussels and if it is rejected there should an election, which if won by Labour would mean Jeremy Corbyn still taking the UK out of the EU albeit on different terms. – Independent > Brendan Chilton today on BrexitCentral: Labour must not allow itself to become the Remainers’ sacrificial lamb Anti-Chequers deal Brexiteers fear security services are monitoring calls and meetings Senior Brexiteers working to stop Theresa May’s Chequers deal have started to take precautions amid concerns that the British security services are snooping on them. Eurosceptics have started to hold important meetings face to face and to commit as little as possible to email because of the concerns that spies might be listening in on them. The concerns are particularly shared by campaigners, MPs and even Eurosceptic ex-ministers because of their commitment to fighting the Chequers deal. – Telegraph /*COMMENT*/ Mark Littlewood: When it comes to post-Brexit trade, the EU is not the only chess game in town The Brexit process is at an impasse. The prime minister’s Chequers proposals were shredded by other European Union leaders at last week’s Salzburg summit. Theresa May’s defiant response from the Downing Street lectern on Friday effectively amounted to saying: “Call us, we won’t call you.” The range of possible endings and outcomes as the Brexit process grinds on has expanded enormously and the only matter upon which there seems to be widespread agreement is that Chequers is not going to be the end-game.Three quarters of the specified two-year negotiating period have been chewed up with very limited progress. It’s common, of course, in negotiations such as these for everything to come together at the last minute, but that is no reason to believe that the final deal will be good or even acceptable. Indeed, the more the clock ticks down, the more likely it is the prime minister receives a deeply unsatisfactory “take it or leave it” offer at the last minute. – Mark Littlewood for The Times Boris Johnson: We must ditch Chequers or be condemned to a crazed Corbynista takeover If we go with the Chequers approach, the public will spot it. They will see that the UK has become a vassal state, that we have not taken back control, but lost control. They will take their revenge at the polls. There is a far better solution, a SuperCanada free trade deal broadly on the lines set out by Shankar Singham in an IEA paper. That is the agenda the PM needs again to seize – because it has been her agenda in the past. We need to get back to the elegance and uplift of that Lancaster House vision, because I am afraid that Chequers = surrender; Chequers = a sense of betrayal; Chequers = the return of Ukip; Chequers = Corbyn. The Labour leader is set to betray the referendum result by offering – absurdly – another vote. We Conservatives must show that we can and will deliver. – Boris Johnson MP in the Telegraph (£) Faisal Islam: ‘Chucking Chequers’ misses the point of Brexit hold-up The cabinet meeting on Monday is yet another crunch point for the Prime Minister and her Chequers compromise deal reached in July. It risks missing the point, however, in terms of what is actually holding up negotiations with the European Union. Whatever the temptation to force the PM to abandon Chequers, the core of which is to keep free and frictionless trade in goods and agriculture by maintaining common rules with the European Union, it is the Irish border problem that is the actual hold up over the next month. Sceptical members of the cabinet may well feel emboldened to persuade the PM to “chuck Chequers” by the fact that the EU27 so clearly and publicly told her that its key economic elements “will not work”. But the fight she needs to have right now after last week’s Salzburg summit misjudgements is about the Irish border backstop arrangement. – Faisal Islam for Sky News Brian Monteith: Theresa May is down but not out – if she drops her Chequers plan The British prime minister was warned by members of her party at all levels that her Chequers Plan would not be acceptable to the EU leaders and that it would only encourage them to hold out for further demands. These warnings came from the cabinet members who had resigned after being intentionally and cruelly humiliated by the imposition of her unnecessary and unpopular negotiation position that had been developed secretly in parallel to the government’s official working papers. There were existing cabinet members who also had grave doubts about the Chequers Plan – and there were many Conservative MPs from both the Europhile-Remain and Eurosceptic-Leave wings of the backbenches who voiced there public opposition…With a party conference to convince that she deserves another chance of delivering a meaningful Brexit that respects both what her party campaigned in the elections for – and what the vast majority of the people voted for across various parties – Theresa May first must “chuck Chequers”. If she remains in denial and cannot bring herself to do it then the party can only conclude she is not made of the right stuff for the job in hand. – Brian Monteith for the Scotsman The Sun: Theresa May must not hold a snap election and only focus on delivering the best Brexit for Britain The Prime Minister should be focused on one thing and one thing alone: delivering the best Brexit for Britain. Rumours of a snap election in November, just four months before we leave the EU, are deeply concerning. Not only does it give the impression of a Government in chaos, it would cost Britain valuable negotiating time. Decision time is quickly approaching for Theresa May. “Brexit means Brexit” will soon need flesh added to the bones: the Chequers compromise or the more ambitious — but more difficult to deliver — model presented by free traders today.And far from pondering her domestic strength, she should focus on flexing her muscles with Brussels. – The Sun Says Priti Patel: EU behaviour reminds us why we voted to Leave their club Outrageous, insulting and immature sums up the EU’s appalling behaviour to the UK and to our Prime Minister. These shenanigans from an out-of-touch EU elite serve to demonstrate why Britain was right to vote leave. Who wants to remain in a club where its senior unelected figures mock our great and proud country and shamefully ambush our PM? Not only has Britain bankrolled the EU for the past 45 years, the freedoms and liberties enjoyed by the Continent have been secured by our Armed Forces and the sacrifices Britain made in two world wars. – Priti Patel MP for yesterday’s Sun on Sunday Patrick Minford: The Chancellor must come clean over his doom-laden forecasts The Treasury model is resilient. Only a couple of years ago its apocalyptic vision of economic Armageddon (thousands of jobs lost, an immediate recession, a punishment Budget) was widely expected to bring the populace to their senses and consign Brexit to the scrapheap of history… But under the redoubtable new management of ‘Spreadsheet Phil’, it was given a makeover. At the risk of getting technical, in the Osborne era, it used “gravity equations” to foresee national penury. As made over in the face of demolition by Economists for Free Trade (EFT) and others of its earlier approach, it changed into a (snappily named) Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Assumptions were made, data fed in, and lo and behold the answers came out much the same – i.e. terrible. – Patrick Minford for the Telegraph (£) > David Paton on BrexitCentral yesterday: It’s time Philip Hammond and the Treasury took seriously the economic benefits of Brexit Telegraph: Despite the calls for a second referendum, Labour’s Brexit stance remains as clear as mud Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool looks certain to be dominated by the one question that Jeremy Corbyn has desperately tried to duck – what, precisely, is the party’s policy on Brexit? Until now, the Opposition has cowered behind its so-called six conditions for support of any deal. This echoes Gordon Brown’s famous five tests for joining the euro, drawn up in such a way that they could never be met. Labour’s position effectively rules out backing anything Theresa May might eventually agree with the EU, notwithstanding the diplomatic debacle at Salzburg last week. But what is it that Labour thinks it can negotiate in her place that does not mean staying inside the customs union and the single market, both of which it rejected in the general election campaign last year?…If he is now preparing to go along with efforts to reverse Brexit then he needs to explain his thinking honestly and unambiguously – not just to the country but to the 40 per cent of Labour voters who were in favour of leaving. – Editorial in the Telegraph (£) Mark Wallace: On the question of a second referendum, Labour’s easiest answer is yet more careful, deniable ambiguity They’re asking Jeremy Corbyn, who spent years as a vocal Eurosceptic, and people like Len McCluskey, whose view expressed today is “We’ve had a People’s Vote, they voted to leave”, to change or ignore their views. That’s hard but not impossible. For all the hype about Corbyn’s supposedly immovable dedication to unchanging beliefs, in recent months he has become visibly more willing to flex, duck and weave in order to preserve both his hide and his project. If the pressure seems to become threatening, and conversely if the change in policy appears to be an opportunity, then the Man Of Principle may be willing to switch his line without any qualms… Does that mean such a commitment from Labour is genuinely in the offing? Not… necessarily. – Mark Wallace for ConservativeHome Comment in Brief The bankers would hate a no-deal Brexit. Tough luck – Rachael FitzGerald-Finch for ConservativeWoman Jeremy Corbyn gives himself some wriggle room on a second referendum – Katy Balls for The Spectator News in Brief Plan Europe holidays three months in advance if there’s no Brexit deal, ministers to warn – The Sun Pro-Brexit movement splinters in fight against PM’s EU divorce plan – Reuters Emily Thornberry admits Labour would scrap Brexit date and postpone our EU exit – The Sun