Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Theresa May told to quit by Cabinet ministers if her Brexit deal falls and she fails to get better terms from EU… Theresa May has been warned by Cabinet ministers she will have to quit if her Brexit deal is defeated in the Commons next week and she fails to secure better terms from the EU, the Telegraph can disclose. Ministers believe that there is “zero” chance of her deal, which has been publicly criticised by more than 100 Tory MPs, passing in a crunch Commons vote on Tuesday. One Cabinet minister told the Telegraph “she [Mrs May] will fall” if she is defeated and then fails to go back to Brussels to fundamentally renegotiate the EU withdrawal agreement. It came as Iain Duncan Smith, a Eurosceptic Tory MP and former Conservative leader, warned for the first time that Mrs May could have to go if she and her Cabinet decide to “brazen it out” in the wake of the vote. – Telegraph (£) MPs hatch cross-party alliance to dump Theresa May – The Times (£) …and Conservative Party members think May should quit if she loses next week… The share of party members who want MPs to vote down the deal has risen very slightly to 71.5, from 68 last time, while those who do not has dropped from 30 per cent to 26 per cent. This may factor in more grassroots anger about the machinery of CCHQ being used to try and drum up support for a policy the membership overwhelmingly opposes. As for the Prime Minister personally, almost two members in three believe she should resign if (when?) the Government loses the meaningful vote on Tuesday. This is a fair bit more than the half who wanted her to step down immediately last time we asked, suggesting that for many members this is less a question of personal antipathy towards Theresa May and more a recognition that, Fixed-term Parliaments Act or not, a crushing defeat on the central policy of your government is a confidence measure. – Henry Hill for Conservative Home …while wavering MPs are left mystified by weak whipping operation Whips like their humour black: Julian Smith keeps an original paper copy of the motion that brought down the Callaghan government in 1979 on the wall of his Downing Street office. A leather braided flail on the mantelpiece delivers another visual gag. Tories fear the real joke in that office may be its occupant, however, as the most baffling whipping operation in modern political history hurtles towards all-but certain defeat and the chance that another minority government is about to crash. – The Times (£) ‘Norway plus’ a plausible Plan B, says Amber Rudd… The UK should pursue the so-called “Norway plus” option – if Theresa May’s Brexit plan is rejected by MPs on Tuesday, according to Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd. In an interview with the Times, Ms Rudd said she still supported the PM’s plan – but added a variation of Norway’s set-up was the best alternative. Ms Rudd admitted, however, that she was not certain it could “be done”. Norway plus would mean the UK remaining in the European Economic Area (EEA). That, Ms Rudd said, “seems plausible not just in terms of the country but in terms of where the MPs are”. Ms Rudd is the first minister to back an alternative plan publicly, if Mrs May’s deal is rejected by Parliament. – BBC News Amber Rudd on Brexit: ‘My mind hasn’t changed — if there’s a new referendum, we’re better off in’ – The Times (£) Norway plus, second referendum or EU rescue: what are all the options if Theresa May’s Brexit plan fails? – Telegraph (£) > Today on BrexitCentral: Shanker Singham on why EEA membership won’t work …as Norwegian politicians reject the idea as being against both Norway’s and the UK’s interest Senior Norwegian politicians and business figures have rejected Norway-plus, the increasingly touted British cross-party plan for the UK to leave the EU but join Norway in a free trade trade area inside the EU single market. They attacked the idea as “neither in Norway nor the UK’s interest”. The UK would need Norway’s permission to join its Efta club. The rejection is a blow to an influential cross-party group led by the Tory MP Nick Boles, with private cabinet support, that is looking for a plan B if, as expected, MPs reject Theresa May’s deal next Tuesday. The former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband and the Tory former universities minister Jo Johnson also condemned Norway-plus as throwing away a key advantage of current membership “in the form of our vote, voice and veto around the table”. – Guardian Health secretary claims UK will deploy planes to cope with Brexit medicines disruption… Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Friday the government is drawing up plans to use aeroplanes and fast-track trucks at the border to ensure the supply of medicines is not interrupted in the event of a no-deal Brexit. “We are working on ensuring that we have aviation capacity,” Hancock told the BBC on Friday. “If there is a serious disruption at the border we will have prioritisation and prioritisation will include medicines and medical devices.” As part of its preparations for a no-deal Brexit, the government is also looking into fast-tracking trucks carrying medicines through Dover if “there’s a serious disruption at the border”. – Politico …while the Government’s suggestion of six months of no-deal disruption at Dover is branded ‘Project Fear on steroids’ Dover and other Channel ports face disruption for up to six months if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, ministers have said. The “worst case scenario” warning comes after analysis of likely traffic flows, if customs checks are delayed. Lorries carrying medicine could get priority at ports and planes used to fly in drugs, ministers said. But Tory Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen said it was “Project Fear on steroids,” ahead of Tuesday’s big Brexit vote. He told the BBC: “It’s the last throw of the dice from the prime minister who is desperate to get MPs to vote for her withdrawal agreement.” The prime minister’s claim that the alternative to the withdrawal agreement she has negotiated with the EU is a no-deal Brexit, has so far failed to convince many of her own MPs. – BBC News Government warns of six-month border disruption under no-deal Brexit – Sky News Foreign Secretary says reversing Brexit could lead to Paris-style riots Hunt fears that what happens to Brexit could add to this crisis in democracy. He believes that if Brexit is reversed, or if it does not lead to parliament being able to control levels of immigration it will to social unrest. “For me as someone who voted Remain, my view is we will not have social stability in this country if we end with a solution that doesn’t mean that we have parliamentary control of immigration policy,” he said. Asked if the scenes of rioters on the streets of Paris and other French towns could be repeated in Britain, Mr Hunt warned: “If we were, for example, to have another referendum overturn the results of the first referendum — let’s say the results were exactly reversed so that this time it was 48 per cent Leave, 52 per cent Remain. You’d have 48 per cent of the country who had voted to Leave twice. They would be incredibly angry and I wouldn’t rule out real social instability in this country. – The Times Red Box podcast Scots fishing will be under EU control after Brexit, says Boris Johnson The European Union will take effective control of Scottish fishing under the government’s Brexit plan, Boris Johnson has claimed. The former foreign secretary said that Theresa May’s proposals handed Brussels the power to bully Britain in future negotiations over quotas and access to waters. Scottish Conservative MPs made fishing a key issue as the prime minister sought their support. The group is still split over whether the withdrawal agreement is satisfactory. Problems also remain around the backstop, which ensures an open border is maintained in Ireland if Britain leaves the EU without a deal. – The Times (£) Jeremy Corbyn says he will prevent a no-deal Brexit, and claims a Labour backstop would be better Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said last night he would ensure “there is no situation where we crash out with no deal” amid an escalating Brexit-fueled political crisis in Britain. Corbyn, speaking at the congress of the Party of European Socialists, promised to renegotiate the Irish border backstop arrangement with the EU if given the chance. He warned that Prime Minister Theresa May is now “reduced to threatening economic chaos” in the face of certain defeat in a House of Commons’ vote set for December 11, describing the coming week as “constitutionally unprecedented” to reporters in Lisbon. – Politico ‘The left must fight for a real Brexit’, says former Syriza MP – Spiked Tim Morris: The UK’s ports will not seize up after a no-deal Brexit, whatever the Government claims The impact of Brexit at Dover would not be common to the UK ports sector as a whole. I write on behalf of the United Kingdom’s major port operators, responsible for handling 75 per cent of the country’s seaborne trade. Dover, handling around 6 per cent of UK port volumes, faces a unique combination of Brexit risk factors that are not faced by most major UK ports. These ports already have the capacity and infrastructure to handle large volumes of both EU and non-EU trade today without “logjam”. The UK’s port sector is resilient, adaptable and highly competitive. We will work through the challenges of Brexit as we have with huge changes through the centuries. Our island nation has always been dependent on sea trade and the ports that enable it. UK Major Ports Group members invest more than half a billion pounds of private-sector funds a year in the UK. They are ambitious to do more, whatever the eventual Brexit outcome. Making the planning system for ports more helpful to investment is key to unlocking their potential. – Tim Morris for The Telegraph (£) Charles Moore: If Parliament manages to thwart Brexit, why would voters ever trust it again? On Thursday, I was away from home and my desk. For information and news, therefore, I relied on my iPhone. But my iPhone is on the O2 network, which went into a coma at 5.30 that morning, so I had no information or news all day. As I needed to prepare for going on BBC Question Time that night, I was alarmed. How could I remind myself of the details of the Norway option, the Attorney-General’s formerly secret backstop advice or whether the Dominic Grieve or the Hilary Benn amendment was the more tiresome? After panic, however, came calm. Charles Moore for the Telegraph (£) Telegraph View : Mrs May insisted it had to be her way or no way on Brexit, and now her defeat looks inevitable Opening the five-day debate on her EU Withdrawal Agreement on Tuesday, Theresa May posed this question: How did we get here? It drew guffaws from Opposition MPs who blamed the Prime Minister for the impasse she now seems to be in. But hers was a historical point; how did it come about that the country voted to leave the European Union after membership lasting 45 years?As the Prime Minister indicated, we need to go back to the UK’s entry into what was the European Economic Community to find the origins of the current crisis. – Telegraph editorial (£) Melanie McDonagh: The problem with a ‘People’s Vote’ Surprise! The Economist has come out in favour of a new referendum on Brexit, joining Sadiq Khan, Tony Blair and possibly the entire cast of Strictly in calling for a People’s Vote. It observes sagely: “no one can claim to intuit what the people want. The only way to know is to ask them”. And of the PM’s peculiar tour of the nation to flog her plan (why?), it declares that it is an exercise in “pantomime” democracy:“May is right that MPs should take into account what the public think. So should she: not by guessing, but by calling on them to vote”.- Melanie McDonagh for The Spectator Comment in Brief Are politicians ready for what comes after the meaningful vote? The Spectator podcast Why the fall of Calais provides the best historical precedent for Brexit – Simon Targett for Reaction Spain should abandon its attempts to cleave Gibraltar from the UK – Ashley Fox MEP for ConservativeHome Is Brexit a real constitutional crisis yet? – Professor Robert Tombs for Briefings for Brexit is Northern Ireland sleepwalking into rule from Dublin? – Walter Ellis for Reaction How EEA and EFTA can fix the Brexit mess – Adrian Yalland for Reaction Explaining May’s Brexit betrayal in 1,000 words – Bruce Newsome for CommentCentral The problem with claiming Facebook ads or overspending caused Brexit – Matt Singh for CapX No Deal is no nightmare: Facts about EU trade after Brexit – Briefings for Brexit Former MI6 chief tells MPs to vote down May’s agreement – Iain Martin for Reaction A letter to Remainers – Dr Graham Gudgin for Briefings for Brexit Dysbrexia, Part Four: Does someone YOU know need help? – Nick Booth for ConservativeWoman The civilising effect of JRM – he even makes Alastair Campbell half human – Kathy Gyngell for ConservativeWoman Nick Hargrave: The Conservative split is coming. Indeed, it is already here. Unless… – Nick Hargrave for ConservativeHome If there is a second referendum, no deal must be kept off the ballot paper – Mohammed Amin for ConservativeHome We Remainers need to stop trying to convince ourselves the referendum was stolen – James Ball for The Spectator News in Brief Leave Means Leave campaign prepares for another referendum – BBC News Paul Nuttall quits UKIP over Tommy Robinson role – BBC News Patel comments on no-deal Brexit in Ireland criticised – BBC News Campaigners seek judicial review of 2016 vote – BBC News No-deal Brexit report: ‘Bodies may be uncollected’ – BBC News Lib Dems to make Commons bid for another referendum – BBC News