Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team UK ‘wants to leave Common Agricultural Policy in March 2019’ The UK is seeking to leave the EU Common Agricultural Policy in March 2019, Scotland Office minister Lord Duncan has said. Speaking at a National Farmers Union Scotland conference, he said the UK was pushing to split subsidy payments from any transitional Brexit deal. Lord Duncan said this would mean farmers being paid from a UK pot. Scottish Brexit minister Michael Russell said the move could restrict the sale of farm produce to the EU. UK ministers have said the level of funding to farmers after the UK formally leaves the EU would be guaranteed until 2022. Lord Duncan said: “The secretary of state (Michael Gove) has been very clear that he believes farming and fishing should not be part of any transitional deal. – BBC NFU Scotland is ‘committed’ to striking right Brexit deal for farmers – Press and Journal EU bank says it may not repay UK £30 bn ‘ if things go sour’… The UK may be forced to wait 30 years to get its money back from the EU’s bank after Brexit and could be on the hook for £30billion if “things go sour”, a senior European official has claimed. Alexander Stubb, vice president of the European Investment Bank, said he believed Britain would get back £3 billion of the money it has paid in since 1973 but that cash would not be repaid in full until 2054. He also suggested that the bank believes the UK could have to hand over billions of pounds in the future if investment projects it has helped fund fail. Meanwhile, Mr Stubb also rejected a suggestion made by the European Union Committee of the House of Lords earlier this year that the bank may owe the UK £9billion – Telegraph EU bank may not fully repay UK until 2054 – BBC …as the Bank’s VP calls Brexit ‘one of biggest travesties of modern times’ Brexit is one of the biggest travesties of the modern era which will result in no winners, the vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has said. Former Finnish prime minister Alexander Stubb denied that the EIB wanted to punish the UK for the decision to quit the bloc, but acknowledged it could take until 2054 for the UK to get back its £3 billion invested in the bank. He also said that there had been less demand for EIB investment from the UK in recent years and the economic uncertainty caused by Brexit was making lending decisions more complicated. – Scottish Herald EU Budget contains €2 Million for “Private Storage of Cheese” – Guido Fawkes Brexit minister resigns after black hawk helicopter leap David Davis’s Brexit Department faced further turmoil today as he was forced to replace his third minister in just five months. Baroness Anelay has resigned as Minister of State for Exiting the European Union as a result of an injury suffered while climbing out of a Black Hawk helicopter in 2015 when she was a Foreign Office Minister. Her departure is the latest in a growing list of exits from the Brexit Department. – Telegraph (£) Congratulations to Lord Callanan, who is appointed Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union today. As a former MEP, and former leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, he knows the EU, its institutions and the ins and outs of its workings in great detail. Back in 2014, before the referendum, this site made the case that Callanan should be appointed Britain’s EU Commissioner – now that we’re leaving, it makes good sense to deploy his expertise in the service of Brexit. – Mark Wallace for ConservativeHome Losing three Brexit ministers looks like more than carelessness – John Rentoul for the Independent A farewell to ministerial office – Baroness Anelay for ConservativeHome Boris Johnson appeals to Portugal during visit in bid to unblock Brexit negotiations Speaking to reporters after talks with Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva in Lisbon, Mr Johnson appealed to the 1386 Treaty of Windsor to suggest Portugal help in unblocking Brexit negotiations. He said: “In the Treaty of Windsor, if you read it very carefully, somewhere I’m sure, there is a clause that says ‘if one side is involved in some very difficult European negotiations, it is the duty of one side to come to the aid of the other.” Mr Johnson also brought up he Duke of Wellington’s role in chasing Napoleon’s troops out of Portugal in the early 19th century. In addition, he mentioned the fact that British fictional super spy James Bond had been “conceived, at least intellectually, in Estoril,” a Lisbon beach suburb. – Express Remainers set to sue Government again to give MPs vote on final deal with EU Die-hard Remainers are set to sue the Government again with a bid to try and tie their hands over any deal they sign with the EU. Gina Miller, who successfully took Theresa May to court and won earlier this year, is leading a legal campaign to guarantee Parliament gets a binding vote on the final Brexit agreement. Ministers have already said they will hold such a vote – but comments from David Davis this week have created confusion over when and how it would happen. And Downing Street have so far refused to enshrine the agreement in primary legislation, something which has prompted the legal action. – The Sun Belgium worried about no-deal Brexit… Belgium is pleading with the European Union to significantly bolster its flagship unemployment fund as EU leaders become increasingly jittery about the economic consequences of a no-deal Brexit.National authorities in Brussels have asked for an increase in the budget of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) which helps laid off workers cope with financial difficulties. They also want to significantly “broaden the scope” of the programme amid fears that the divorce talks could crash and burn causing significant damage to the European economy. Britain is Belgium’s fourth largest trading partner in the world, behind only France and Germany, buying 8.8 per per cent of all the goods and services it exports at a value of £26.5 billion a year. – Express …as British Airways say they will still fly planes regardless of outcome The boss of the company that owns British Airways has dismissed claims that flights could be grounded after Brexit. In an apparent rebuke to the Chancellor yesterday, International Airlines Group chief executive Willie Walsh said BA will continue to fly after Britain quits the EU in March 2019. His comments came after Philip Hammond said it was ‘theoretically conceivable’ there could be no air traffic between the UK and Europe if there is no Brexit deal. The Chancellor was slapped down by Cabinet colleagues and Mr Walsh, 56, said: ‘In terms of Brexit, there’ll be an outcome and we will continue to fly. – Daily Mail EU tightens Schengen rules MEPs have voted for new entry and exit checks for people from outside Europe who are visiting the borderless Schengen passport area. The aim is to plug a gap in the EU’s border security, while the agency Europol will use the new database to identify terrorists and track criminal suspects. – BBC James Forsyth: Conservatives must tell us what Brexit really means — as voters are becoming wary of their values It was an early start for Cabinet on Tuesday. Before the meeting proper they had 90 minutes of polling on the state of the Tory party. It didn’t make for cheerful viewing. David Mundell, the Scottish Secretary, summed up the mood of the meeting when he told Theresa May, to chuckles, that his first impression from all the data was that she shouldn’t call an election any time soon. The problem for the Tories is voters are wary of their values and fed up with austerity. “It is the age-old Conservative problem, that we’re brought in to clean up the mess and once people feel that’s done they are not sure they want us,” is how one of those present sums it up. – James Forsyth for The Sun Alexander Fiuza: British fishing’s Brexit revival With the EU finally beginning formal preparations for negotiations over its future economic relationship with the UK, it’s time to look again at an area that stands to gain from Brexit: fishing. Once it leaves the EU, the UK will can undo former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath’s catastrophic decision to sell out British fisheries for European Economic Community membership. British fishermen should see a substantial boost to their share of fishing quotas in UK waters. The important question now is just how substantial an economic boost this will be. – Alexander Fiuza for CapX John Redwood MP: The EU imprisons civil servants Civil service jobs have just got a lot more interesting. Instead of having to relay the EU instruction to a frustrated Minister the two can now work together on a better answer for the UK. It’s called democracy and it could catch on. One of the strengths of the old UK constitution was an independent civil service. – John Redwood MP for CommentCentral Matthew Parris: MPs and the EU can together derail Brexit It is possible he didn’t mean it. It’s possible David Davis didn’t plan to open the door to the outrageous idea that parliamentary consideration of our Brexit deal might be scheduled for after we’ve already left. Put on the spot this week on whether that could be the case, the Brexit secretary replied that “Yes, it could be. [Parliamentary consideration] can’t come before we have the deal.” He had already explained that the draft might be ready only in the very last second before our membership of the European Union expired. – Matthew Parris for The Times (£) Richard and Judy: Just give us a rest from BBC gloom What’s happened to the news (in particular, the BBC’s bulletins)? It’s Brexit, of course. The heart of the regular evening news viewer (and I’ve been one for decades) sinks every night at about 6pm. Poor Fiona Bruce looks as if she hasn’t had a laugh for years. As soon as I see her grim expression at the start of the bulletin, I think: “Oh dear, here we go, nasty old Jean-Claude Juncker has been horrid about Theresa May again today.” And there he is, with his impossibly smug face, denying he ever told anyone that our PM is tearful, frightened, looks as if she hasn’t slept for a week, etc, etc. As if anyone believes anything the fat, tipsy little toad says any more. And yet here we are, night after night, forced to watch such well-fed, well-refreshed besuited gossips tell us our fortune. – Richard and Judy for the Express Brexit comment in brief Dan Hannan ‘The man who brought you Brexit’ – CapX podcast The EU was supposed to end nationalism. Catalonia proves it has failed – Telegraph (£) editorial The Catalan crisis has exposed what the EU really stands for – Spectator If the EU cannot learn from Spain’s example, separatism like Catalonia’s will only spread – John Redwood for the Telegraph (£) Brexit news in brief UK ‘won’t recognise’ Catalan independence – BBC Rebel Tory MPs allegedly want to talk directly to Brussels – Evening Standard Sturgeon demands clarity on Brexit transition – PoliticsHome