Supreme Court to hear government appeal over Brexit powers The Supreme Court will begin a landmark legal hearing on Monday into whether Parliament’s consent is required before official Brexit negotiations can begin. Its 11 justices will hear a government appeal against last month’s High Court ruling that only Parliament has the authority to trigger Article 50. The hearing, to be streamed live by the BBC, is expected to last four days, but the verdict is not due until next year. The outcome will have implications for Theresa May’s strategy for EU exit. – BBC When is the Supreme Court Brexit case and how can I watch it live? – Evening Standard Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court judgment on Brexit – The Independent May ‘extremely confident’ of triggering Article 50 by end of March – F.T (£) However the Supreme Court rules, the government must offer greater clarity on its strategy – Times (£) editorial What the tabloids have dug up about the judges The Supremes, who cannot go to war with the Daily Mail, Telegraph and The Sun, have to rely on politicians with the guts to defend them. Weeks of newspaper judge-baiting would damage an already frail constitutional settlement if pro-Brexit ministers collude it in with silence. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, David Davis, Liam Fox and others are honour-bound to nip the nastiness in the bud, regardless of any political cost from antagonising their friends in the press. – The Independent The 11 Supreme Court judges who could rule on UK’s Brexit appeal – BBC A line-up of judges well used to causing a stir – The Times (£) Quangocrats who choose judges in secret, and how the US puts the British to shame – Daily Mail Heat, fury and a very political judgement – Daily Mail editorial Supreme court judges on Brexit case are being vilified says Gina Miller – The Guardian The judges protect us. It’s time to stand up for them – Sarah Helm for The Guardian Cabinet split over ‘cash for access’ to single market… Boris Johnson yesterday appeared to reject a proposal by David Davis, the Brexit secretary, and Philip Hammond, the chancellor, for the government to pay into EU coffers in return for preferential terms for business. The foreign secretary’s stance is understood to be backed by Brexiteer ministers including Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, and prominent supporters of the Leave campaign. They are concerned that any compromise over the £13 billion a year paid to the EU at present would undermine Vote Leave’s pledge to repatriate money from Brussels. – The Times (£) …as Boris Johnson reveals four-point Brexit blueprint Mr Johnson told Sky’s Murnaghan programme: “You… have… got to take back control of money, control of our democracy, our laws and be in a position to do free trade deals and that is what the Prime Minister wants to achieve…”I’ve given you a pretty fair, four-point analysis of what we need to achieve – control of borders, control of money, control of laws and the ability to do free trade deals.Within those ideas – those very simple ideas – is a wealth of information about the kind of deal we want.” – Sky News Boris Johnson opens Tory rift by trashing claim Britain could keep paying the EU after Brexit – The Mirror Philip Hammond and David Davis to present united front on Brexit – The Guardian May urged to admit UK will leave single market – FT (£) If Boris Johnson wants a welcoming, pluralist nation, he must fight for it – Matthew d’Ancona for The Guardian > WATCH: Boris Johnson has positive things to say on EU projects and free trade Get on with Brexit: 200 top business bosses urge Theresa May to trigger Article 50 A letter signed by 200 business leaders being delivered to Downing Street today urges the Prime Minister not to waiver on her plan to trigger formal Brexit talks by the end of March without a vote in Parliament….Signatories include David Cameron’s former enterprise adviser and one-time Trade Secretary Lord Young, City leaders Dr Peter Cruddas and Jim Mellon, theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh, and JD Wetherspoon pub chain founder Tim Martin. Welcoming the intervention Leave Means Leave co-chairman John Longworth said: “British businesses want to get on with leaving the EU and making a success of Brexit.” Dr Cruddas, treasurer of the pro-Leave Change Britain, said: “Business needs certainty. “Those trying to delay Article 50 are increasing uncertainty and putting British firms, jobs and investment at risk.” – Daily Express Crisis over Brexit ‘will be good for Scotland’ Scotland will be in an “incredibly powerful position” to benefit from any “constitutional crisis’”resulting from today’s Brexit Supreme court case, Alex Salmond has said. If the UK Government lose their bid to overturn the High Court decision to allow MPs a vote on Article 50, then Holyrood will need to consent before the UK starts the formal process of leaving the EU, the former First Minister told the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme. – The National Scots more worried about Brexit than rest of UK, study finds – The Herald Little sign of rising support for independence among Scottish voters – FT (£) Europe in chaos as ‘Italian Brexit’ vote brings down government Matteo Renzi has tonight announced he is stepping down after Italians rejected his plans for electoral reform. A general election may now be called – opening the door to anti-establishment opposition groups who want to pull Italy out of the EU. Renzi’s risky gamble may further rock an EU already reeling from Brexit and the migrant crisis – and markets are expected to tumble today. – Daily Star Defeat will lead to calls for early elections, next year and there is a chance that these elections could lead to the Eurozone’s first anti-single currency government. At the very least, the defeat of these constitutional reforms and Renzi’s fall will add to a sense that Italy is unreformable which will heap further pressure on Italy’s banks which have €286 billion of bad loans. – James Forsyth for the Spectator’s Coffee House blog Euro wobbles after Italian referendum – BBC How Italy and the rest of the world reacted after the Italian referendum – Daily Telegraph You can’t compare Italy ‘No’ vote to Brexit says ECB’s Villeroy – Reuters Europe’s divisions have driven our success – Matt Ridley for The Times (£) Austria’s Alexander Van der Bellen wins presidency Hofer, who was trying to become the first head of state in Europe from a far-right party since before World War II, conceded defeat in the late afternoon, writing on his Facebook page: “I am endlessly sad that it didn’t work out. I’d have loved to take care of Austria. I congratulate Alexander Van der Bellen on his success.” The elections were a rerun of May’s poll, which Van der Bellen won by a narrower margin than apparently on Sunday. Following a challenge to the result by the Freedom Party on technical irregularities in the vote count, Austria’s highest court ordered a rerun of the election. – Politico Lib Dems have ‘nothing to say’ for those who voted Brexit, claims Sir Keir Starmer MP Keir Starmer, appearing on BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show, said the country was more divided than ever after the Brexit vote, and criticised political parties for only representing one side of the country. It comes after the Lib Dems candidate Sarah Olney swept away Zak Goldsmith of the Conservative Party in the Richmond by-election – a result which was seen as a protest against the Tories’ Brexit strategy. – International Business Times Whatever the Supreme Court decide, the case for Brexit is strong. Theresa May should make it stronger still The time for silence is over. Mrs May must tell Britain more about what Brexit will mean, a positive vision for the country that will deliver her the support not just of the 17.4 million but many of the 16 million who voted to remain. Most of them are reasonable people who respect democracy and do not share the bitterness of the Remainers in Parliament. By winning them over, Mrs May can prove that Brexit is the choice of the whole of Britain, and those who object are marginal figures with little support. – Telegraph editorial Michael Howard: No matter what the Supreme Court decides on Brexit, Article 50 will not be stopped What of the House of Lords? Of course their lordships do not face the consequences of electoral wrath in the same way as MPs. But that very fact makes it inconceivable that the unelected Upper House would seek to thwart the clearly expressed will of the people…So, whatever the decision of the Supreme Court, I do not think there is any serious risk that the Government will not be able to achieve its objective of activating Article 50 in the spring of next year. – Former Tory leader Lord Howard for the Daily Telegraph (£) We mustn’t allow fears over immigration to make us lose ‘a common sense of what it is to be British’ Since Tony Blair opened up our borders without ever consulting the public, every government has behaved in the same way — refusing to acknowledge that there has ever been an issue. The biggest political consequence of that so far has been the Brexit vote, when the electorate seized the first chance to take back control of our borders….The job now is to look ahead at how we make up for previous failures….But more widely that means, as Louise Casey puts it, “a common sense of what it is to be British and what our common values, rights and responsibilities are”. Because if we lose that, we lose everything. – The Sun Says Children ‘should be taught British values’ to keep communities together – Sky News It’s foolish to think you can set targets for immigration says Diane Abbott – Labour List The immigration debate needs liberal voices – Christian May for City A.M. John Redwood MP: Representing Remain I take seriously the need to bring the country back together after the Brexit vote. I have spent much of the last five months seeking to look after the interests of Remain voters….We will continue to trade, have many collaborations, do much with our EU neighbours after we have left. The aim is to be richer and freer. We will also be better Europeans by allowing them to get on and complete their union which most UK voters did not want to join. I was struck in the many debates I did during the referendum by how practically all the Remain spokespeople said they did not wish to join the Euro, or Schengen, or the political union or the common army. – John Redwood MP for his eponymous blog Nigel Farage: If you thought 2016 was a year of revolution, just wait for 2020 and angry Britain’s Brexit backlash I think there will be growing calls among Leavers for us to abandon the Article 50 route altogether….However loud the voices get to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, this option will undoubtedly find little favour in Parliament. So for those of you who are now close to boiling point, I am sorry to say you will have a long time to wait. If, as I now expect, we reach the spring of 2019 and find that our demands in the historic referendum have not been met, then I think something quite dramatic could happen. – Nigel Farage for the Daily Telegraph (£) Brexit comment in brief What does Leave mean? – Matthew Elliott keynote address Britain’s Brexit debate is becoming poisonous. Theresa May needs to show some real leadership, soon – James Kirkup for the Daily Telegraph (£) Tony Blair and Nick Clegg risk damaging British business by seeking to block Brexit – Peter Cruddas for City A.M. Like a football manager, remainers can only see the other team’s fouls – Larry Elliott for The Guardian Brexit news in brief Arron Banks denies offering ‘six-figure bribe’ to DUP in exchange for Leave.EU support – The Independent Leak reveals May’s efforts to get tough on leaking – The Times (£) Manufacturers hiring again as pound’s slide lifts demand – The Times (£) How tech startups and investors really feel about Brexit – City A.M. Ryszard Petru is the unproven Polish hope of liberals across the EU – Politico British PM heads to Bahrain to cement Gulf ties before Brexit – MEMO Poll found journalists, bankers and estate agents are trusted more than politicians – International Business Times Andrew Neil destroys Nick Clegg in car-crash interview – Daily Express Workers ‘Optimistic’ About Career After Brexit – Morning Star