Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Theresa May claims Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan would ‘guarantee no deal’… Theresa May has launched a direct attack on Boris Johnson’s alternative Brexit vision as Government sources said it would “guarantee no deal and put jobs at risk”. On the eve of the Conservative Party Conference, Mrs May refused to bow to Mr Johnson’s demands for a Canada-style deal as a Brexit plan B. Downing Street pointed out that Mr Johnson, who has called on Mrs May to rip up the “backstop” agreement for Northern Ireland, was a member of the Cabinet that agreed the backstop in December. But allies of Mr Johnson hit back by suggesting the Cabinet had been lied to by Mrs May’s senior staff. It came as Mr Johnson refused to rule out challenging Mrs May’s leadership and MPs said there was a “50/50 chance” she would be ousted this year if she refuses to change tack on Brexit. – Telegraph (£) Laura Kuenssberg grills Boris Johnson about his Brexit plan – BBC News …but Brexiteers signal their support for his approach What I like about Boris’s SuperCanada arrangement is that it does deliver promises and I am genuinely excited about our future under this arrangement. – Andrea Jenkyns MP for The Telegraph (£) It is great to see former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson setting out, in his ebullient way, how this can be done, and I would support almost everything he has said in his article today. – Marcus Fysh MP for The Telegraph (£) Fortunately, there is an alternative [to Chequers]. It is in the SuperCanada plan, drawn up by the Institute of Economic Affairs and endorsed by Boris Johnson. – Jacob Rees-Mogg MP for The Telegraph (£) Canada-style deal has merit, says former Tory leader Lord Howard Former Conservative Party leader Lord Howard has said he is in favour of a “Canada plus solution” to Brexit. Speaking to BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur he said there was a lot of merit in the Institute for Economic Affairs’ report released earlier this week. “In some respects it’s quite close to the offer that has already made by the European Union, by President Tusk earlier this year and I would very much like to see that explored,” Lord Howard said. – BBC News Tory remainers in plot to rubbish Canada-style Brexit deal Brexit-backing Tories were furious after a plot by party rivals to rubbish their plan for a Canada-style trade deal with the EU was revealed. A leaked memo showed that pro-Brussels Tory MPs were planning to publish a joint letter tomorrow expressing opposition to the alternative Brexit blueprint being championed by Boris Johnson and other Eurosceptics. The memo, sent by former Tory minister Philip Lee to party colleagues, also expressed support for a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. Owen Paterson, a former Cabinet minister and leading Leave campaigner, was scathing about the pro-Brussels plot. He said: “17.4 million people voted to leave the EU – more than have ever voted for any issue or political party in British history. It was a decisive vote. – Express Dominic Raab accuses EU chiefs of using Irish border dilemma as part of plot to break up the UK as punishment for leaving Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has accused EU chiefs of twisting the Irish dilemma and plotting to break up the UK as punishment for leaving. But Mr Raab says that while some in the EU Commission see it as a genuine solution to keep the Irish border open, others are “using it for political purposes”. He told The Sun: “If you walk around the corridors in Brussels, you hear all sorts of mutterings about how the UK must be penalised for leaving the EU, and the politicisation of Northern Ireland is part of that. “There are some out there in the Commission who see it as a lever beyond the substantive issue. – The Sun The EU is driving Britain towards a no-deal Brexit with its ‘intransigence’, warns Liam Fox or Liam Fox, the rancour over Theresa May’s treatment at the hands of European leaders at the disastrous Salzburg summit still lingers.In an interview with The Telegraph he said her treatment by EU leaders at the meeting, which saw them unanimously reject her Chequers plan, went “beyond the pale”. “I thought the behaviour was unacceptable,” the International Trade Secretary said. “To openly taunt the Prime Minister, when of all people she is one the most polite and well mannered, was way beyond the pale. “It reminded me of during the referendum when you heard voices saying Britain would have to be punished for leaving the EU. Then I said it was the language of a gang not a club.” – Telegraph (£) No-deal exit imperils EU, warns Jeremy Hunt President Putin would love a no-deal Brexit, Jeremy Hunt has claimed as he called for “deeply unreasonable” EU negotiators to change their approach. The foreign secretary warned that a withdrawal from the bloc without a settlement would destabilise Europe, and that such an outcome would play into the hands of the Kremlin. He laid the blame for the failure to make progress in the Brexit talks firmly at the door of European negotiators, claiming that Theresa May had shown “enormous flexibility”. Mr Hunt made his comments in an interview with The Times published on the eve of the Conservative Party conference. – The Times (£) Angela Merkel wants to stop Britain thriving after Brexit, says David Davis German Chancellor Angela Merkel is leading moves in the European Union to stop Britain being “seen to succeed” from Brexit, David Davis claimed today. In an exclusive interview with the Evening Standard, the former Brexit Secretary said only French president Emmanuel Macron is taking a harder line against the UK. “Other than Macron, Merkel is the most emphatic in Europe about us not being seen to succeed,” he said. Theresa May should not see Mrs Merkel as a “champion” ready to salvage a good future trade deal for the UK at the eleventh hour in the face of French opposition, Mr Davis continued. He added that the Brexit turmoil was likely to get even “tougher” for the Prime Minister. – David Davis for the Evening Standard David Miliband and Sir John Major call for second EU referendum David Miliband has told Sky News the UK is facing a “national crisis” over Brexit as he joined forces with Sir John Major to call for second vote on whether to the leave the European Union. The former Labour foreign secretary said the “Brexit fantasy” proposed at the 2016 referendum is no longer on offer and any exit deal agreed with the EU should be put to the British people. He was joined by Sir John in Mr Miliband’s old constituency of South Shields in Tyneside, where the ex-Tory prime minister said he could not see an “intellectual argument” against rerunning the ballot. – Sky News Jacob Rees-Mogg: The time has come, Mrs May – unite Conservatives and your country behind a Canada deal The country and the Conservative Party could unite around this position and the conference is the time to do it. How marvellous it would be if this year’s leader’s speech were not a triumph of perseverance but a vision to show how we can leave in a way that would achieve wide support, deliver on the vote of 2016 and ensure our future prosperity. Then we would be able to say of the Prime Minister “when can her glory fade” for she will have come through the wild charge of Chequers and gone on to something better. – Jacob Rees-Mogg MP for The Telegraph (£) The polls show Britain wants to chuck Chequers. That’s why Boris is fighting for SuperCanada – Asa Bennett for The Telegraph (£) Andrea Jenkyns: Boris is leading the way in showing how we can be even greater outside of the EU Boris is right when he says we need to ‘chuck Chequers’. Chequers is dying and the Prime Minister should put it out of its misery. As we enter what should be an exciting new chapter in our country’s history the deal on the table should be one that the majority can get behind and I am confident that that can still be achieved. Labour has now said that they will probably reject any deal the Prime Minister gets and many of my colleagues have said publicly that they cannot support Chequers, so we must now look to an alternative. This new plan needs to be one in which the British people can really get behind and this alternative vision must deliver on the promises made to the British people during the referendum. What I like about Boris’s SuperCanada arrangement is that it does deliver promises and I am genuinely excited about our future under this arrangement. – Andrea Jenkyns MP for The Telegraph (£) Marcus Fysh: Chequers will take us backwards. We can win with a SuperCanada Brexit The Brexit negotiations and discussions over the last two years have resembled a game of snakes and ladders, with Prime Minister Theresa May starting the game by moving us all up a large ladder with her statement that ‘Brexit means Brexit’. before taking us all down an even bigger snake with the so-called Chequers proposal which meant Brexit might well not mean Brexit at all. No wonder many of the British public threw their playing pieces in the air in disbelief as this would represent a denial of the democratic vote taken two years ago and it would return us all back to ‘Start’ with a potential ‘no deal’ outcome. On the eve of the Conservative Party conference, the Prime Minister has to realise that by adopting the Free Trade Plus “SuperCanada” style option for our trade relations with the EU she can put herself back on the top line of the Snakes and Ladders board within a shake of reaching the top square. It is great to see former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson setting out, in his ebullient way, how this can be done, and I would support almost everything he has said in his article today. – Marcus Fysh MP for The Telegraph (£) How free movement is wrecking Romania There’s been plenty of discussion about the effect on Britain of the EU’s free movement of labour – but little about its effect on the countries whose workers come to Britain to work. Those who champion free movement seem oblivious to the wreckage the policy leaves behind… While the British press is piling up scare stories of Jersey potatoes left to rot in fields when free movement to Britain ends, the nightmare of labour shortages has already hit Romania… Since Romania became part of the EU in 2007, 3.7 million Romanians have left to work abroad (though they are still counted officially as part of the population). To put that number in perspective, in 2007 the working age population amounted to 14 million, so around a quarter of the country’s workers have gone. – Communist Party of Britain Brexit in Brief Interview: Gavin Williamson, the Brexit optimist. “Let’s be liberated by this process – let’s start to look at opportunities more widely.” – Paul Goodman for ConservativeHome Inside Remain’s dissonant and dishonest echo-chamber – Bruce Newsome for CommentCentral The method behind Labour’s Brexit madness – Alan Lockey for CapX May and the EU stuck on Irish border nonsense – Iain Martin for Reaction Brexit will dominate this Tory conference – James Forsyth for The Sun EU ‘intransigence’ is reason why no deal Brexit is real prospect, say DUP – Reuters Boris Johnson refuses to rule out standing against Theresa May if she won’t dump Chequers plan for Brexit – The Sun Sky Poll claims majority think Brexit will be worse than expected – Sky News