European Parliament’s @MartinSchulz: Hurry up and trigger Article 50 – but don’t expect Single Market access without free movement pic.twitter.com/pS1nQFWYnr — BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) September 23, 2016 European Parliament President says free trade without open borders will be vetoed… Politicians in Brussels will veto any Brexit deal that lets Britain export its “lorries and hedge funds” to the EU while closing its borders to foreign workers, the president of the European parliament has warned. In uncompromising comments after talks with Theresa May in London, Martin Schulz said that the UK needed to realise that the EU was a “community” not an “accountants club”. – The Times (£) …as he claims the murder of Jo Cox was a result of a ‘nasty’ referendum campaign EU chief Martin Schulz caused outrage today after blaming Jo Cox’s death on the ‘nasty’ referendum campaign. In an extraordinary claim, the European Parliament president said her death was an example of how unpredictable the EU referendum campaign was… Tory MP Jacob Rees Mogg accused Mr Schulz of ‘trivialising’ the mother of two’s death and said he was significantly over-simplifying the circumstances behind the tragedy. – Daily Mail EU chief Martin Schulz reignites war of words with Boris Johnson over immigration – International Business Times Martin Schulz hits back at UK over EU army – Politico George Osborne: “Brexit won a majority. Hard Brexit did not.” Britain did not vote for ‘hard Brexit’ in the EU referendum and will have to compromise in exit talks, former Chancellor George Osborne has warned… In a speech in Chicago, he also warned against “the dangerous purity of splendid isolation” over co-operation… “I can’t see us consenting to the current arrangements around free movement of people that clearly caused such concern in the referendum,” Mr Osborne said. “Equally, I find some of the take-or-leave it bravado we hear from those who assume Europe has no option but to give us everything we want more than a little naive.” – BBC News Osborne still won’t stop scaremongering – Daily Mail editorial Big question: are we heading towards a “hard Brexit”? – Prospect Treasury pressed to guarantee all funding for EU projects post-Brexit The Treasury is facing calls to honour Boris Johnson’s promise to guarantee all funding for EU programmes after Brexit until at least 2020, as fresh concerns are raised that billions of pounds of regeneration projects across the UK are at risk. Councils and other bodies only have until the autumn statement to gain Whitehall approval for EU-funded structural and investment projects if they want a guarantee that their funding will continue beyond Brexit until 2020. – The Guardian Nicola Sturgeon demands Theresa May answer three key Brexit questions Sturgeon has demanded Theresa May set out the general direction of travel on how Britain will leave the EU as Alex Salmond warned a “full English Brexit” would harm Scotland’s economy and cultural identity. – The Herald Brexit may mean tougher checks on European doctors Brexit may have implications for European doctors entering the UK to work, a medical watchdog warns. Leaving the European Union could provide the General Medical Council (GMC), which decides who is qualified to work in the UK, with the opportunity to be more rigorous with checking European doctors hoping to work in the country. – ITV News Boris Johnson sees a ‘false analogy’ between Brexit and US politics Boris Johnson dismissed the notion that there are parallels between the United Kingdom’s vote in June to leave the European Union, known as “Brexit,” and the rise of Donald Trump in the U.S. to become the Republican presidential nominee. “I think there’s a sort of false analogy between Brexit and events in American politics or anywhere else in the world,” Johnson, who was until earlier this year the mayor of London, told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview for “This Week” to air Sunday. – ABC News France and Germany brush off Johnson’s EU ‘baloney’ jibe Germany and France brushed aside suggestions by the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, that there was no link between the EU’s principle of free movement and access to its single market, saying they could send Johnson a copy of the Lisbon treaty and even travel to London to explain it to him in English. – The Guardian Boris is talking baloney about Britain’s Brexit negotiations – Walter Ellis on Reaction Brexit boost for British tourism as £2.5bn poured into UK economy A record number of tourists visited Britain in July thanks to the post-Brexit exchange rate, official figures show. As many as 3.8 million overseas visitors poured £2.5bn into the UK economy in those four weeks. That is a two per cent increase in numbers and a four per cent rise in spending on figures recorded in July 2015. – Daily Express Have you made a profit from the Brexit bounce? Three months after the vote and the average fund is now in profit After an initial stock market dip amid the uncertainty of the referendum vote, savers’ investments have widely recovered. Those who held their nerve through the tumult are better off than they were on June 23. – Daily Mail Eurozone slows as German growth falls behind France – The Telegraph Cameron said no to personal attacks on leading Brexiteers during referendum David Cameron vetoed attacks on Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage in the closing stages of the EU referendum campaign because they were “too personal”, a new book has revealed. Craig Oliver, Mr Cameron’s chief spin doctor, abandoned a planned poster campaign showing Mr Farage in a post-coital pose, according to a definitive account of the Brexit vote. It included the words “Don’t wake up to something you’ll regret”… However, Philip Webster, former political editor of The Times, says in his book Inside Story that Mr Oliver decided it was “too toxic”. – The Times (£) Excerpts from Philip Webster’s book: Fatal errors that left Cameron out of luck when it mattered: Poor planning and bad judgment led to Brexit – The Times (£) Failure and fiasco drove ‘Govey’ to betray Boris – The Times (£) Andrew Grice: After Corbyn wins, he’ll need to end the Labour tradition of ignoring immigration – and oppose post-Brexit freedom of movement As three months of navel-gazing comes to an end with Corbyn’s expected re-election, Labour needs to look outwards to the voters. If Corbyn is serious about winning power in the country – a big if— and building bridges to his semi-detached MPs, then he should launch a full and frank debate about the party’s policy on immigration. – Andrew Grice in The Independent Jon Trickett MP: Labour must seize the opportunities presented by Brexit It is because we think that the business community needs a concrete vision for post-Brexit Britain as soon as possible that Labour have set out our red lines for Brexit, which include trading rights for the financial sector, and the enshrinement of EU protections for workers. These state the conditions that we believe must be met for the transition to be just and prosperous. Beyond these details though, the country needs to address a more profound problem. For we will only meet the challenge posed by Brexit if we confront the reasons the vote went the way it did, which to a large extent have deep economic roots. – Shadow Business Secretary Jon Trickett MP for PoliticsHome Progressives must work together to hold this Brexit government to account – Tim Farron MP on Left Foot Forward The left needs to seize the initiative over Brexit – Nick Dearden in The Guardian Nigel Lawson: Brexit will complete Margaret Thatcher’s economic revolution The vast and ever-growing corpus of EU regulation causes economic damage throughout the EU. But it is particularly damaging to the UK and to UK SMEs since we have in this country a more rigorous insistence on the rule of law and its implementation than is the case in many, if not most, of the EU’s member states. That is, in itself, a virtue, and should not change. But it makes the escape from the EU regulatory burden all the more important. – Lord Lawson in The Telegraph There are five camps forming after Brexit – which one are you in? There are the Triumphant Brexiteers, Worried Uncertains, Cautious Adaptors, Pro-European Refuseniks and then there’s Theresa May – Denis MacShane in The Independent Brexit comment in brief Article 50 cannot wait until next autumn – Henry Hill on ConservativeHome OK, I admit it. I regret voting Remain – Rupert Myers in The Telegraph Don’t be taken in by EU overreach on trade – Andrew Lilico on Reaction The UK’s liberation from the EU demands a global financial investment zone – David Harding in The Telegraph Brexit advice to brokers: hope for the best, plan for the worst – William Garner in City A.M. Allister Heath: Whatever his faults, Carney should stay in charge at the Bank of England – The Telegraph Peter Oborne: It’s time for Mr Carney to quit the Bank of England – Daily Mail Brexit news in brief The great Brexit hate crime myth: How claims of an epidemic of race crimes since the referendum are simply false – Daily Mail Anti-Brexit group lodges legal challenge over article 50 procedure – The Guardian Our parting gift to Europe is English as official figures show nearly every secondary school pupil in the EU is learning to speak it – Daily Mail Michael Gove leads group of 75 Conservative MPs calling on Theresa May to examine case for a new £100million Royal Yacht Britannia – Daily Telegraph David Cameron’s former chief of staff made French Ambassador just weeks after receiving a peerage – Daily Telegraph EU Commission refuses to revise Canada CETA trade deal – BBC News TTIP trade deal could re-launched under a different name, say EU ministers – The Independent New post-Brexit EU summit set for 3 February in Malta – EurActiv