Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Tory backbenchers’ shop steward Sir Graham Brady warns ministers to unite over Brexit or risk a Corbyn government… The leader of backbench Conservative MPs has made a dramatic plea to warring cabinet ministers to unite at a crucial Chequers meeting this week – or risk a botched Brexit and a Jeremy Corbyn-led government. Writing in the Observer, Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, suggests that ministers should learn lessons in discipline from their backbench colleagues, after an extraordinary week of infighting at the top of government. Without an outbreak of unity at Chequers on Friday, he says the British people risk being sold short on Brexit and having to endure the “disaster” of a Labour government led by Corbyn. – Observer Disunity in the Cabinet is making Theresa May’s negotiations with Brussels more difficult and will alienate voters, Sir Graham Brady – ITV Disputes and dysfunction reign in a cabinet all at sea – Sunday Times (£) Even winning the World Cup won’t help Theresa May – John Rentoul for the Independent Theresa May has her rebels, and the EU, cornered on Brexit – Adam Boulton for the Sunday Times (£) …as eurosceptic Tory MPs order Theresa May not to give in to EU bullies… Theresa May has been ordered not to give in to Brussels’ bullies ahead of leaving the EU – by her own MPs. The PM must show “courage and leadership” in the face of people desperate to undermine the referendum result. Nearly three dozen Tory MPs have signed a letter to Mrs May demanding she gets tough with counterparts in Brussels. It comes days after President of the European Council Donald Tusk said the PM has been given a “last call” to explain her Brexit demands. In the letter – signed by MPs including ex-Ministerial aide Andrea Jenkyns and Simon Clarke – demands are made not to extend the transition period beyond December 2020. They also state they will not accept any extension to the two-year withdrawal period in March next year. – Sun on Sunday Brexiteer MPs pile pressure on Theresa May by demanding an “absolute” exit from EU – Yorkshire Evening Post …while May is reportedly warning backbench Brexiteers to ‘oust me if you dare’ Theresa May has vowed to defy cabinet plotters, telling aides that she will not be bullied out of office by ministers or hardline Brexiteers opposed to her EU plans. The prime minister has decided to stand and fight if Tory MPs force a vote to oust her — declaring that she is content to “win by one vote”. That means the rebels would need 159 MPs to bring her down, more than three times the 48 who would be needed to trigger a vote of no confidence. May’s decision comes as she faces crunch Brexit talks with the cabinet at Chequers this week and MPs revealed that six senior ministers are plotting to succeed her. The prime minister will warn hardline Brexiteers that they will have to remove her if they want to stop the government pursuing a Norway-style Brexit deal that will keep Britain closely aligned to EU rules on the sale of goods. – Sunday Times PM’s Chief Brexit Advisor Oliver Robbins’ briefings left on Eurostar Theresa May’s Europe adviser was involved in a security breach that threatened to derail Britain’s negotiating position on Brexit, The Sunday Times can reveal. A folder belonging to Oliver Robbins containing “cabinet-level briefings” and correspondence with the prime minister was left on a train in an embarrassing lapse that caused panic at the Department for Exiting the European Union (Dexeu). The paperwork, which was marked with Robbins’s handwriting and reflected the positions Britain was planning to take on the customs union and migration, was discovered by a retired school teacher on a Eurostar train travelling from Brussels to London. – Sunday Times (£) EU is warned ‘there is a genuine risk of no deal’ if it does not significantly increase the pace and intensity of Brexit negotiations… Speaking ahead of this week’s crunch Chequers away day, a Number 10 aide poured cold water on speculation that the UK is willing to allow free movement to continue after Brexit, saying: “We will not trade free movement of workers away.” Britain has made “significant” concessions, including a £39billion “divorce bill” offer, and Downing Street said it is time for Brussels to show “more flexibility”. Theresa May has summoned her ministers to thrash out an agreement on future trade and customs arrangements on Friday, that will then be set out in a White Paper. The aide said: “In Brussels, the PM was clear with the EU – and fellow leaders were equally clear with her – that we need to significantly increase the pace and intensity of the negotiations.” – Express …as Brussels officials say there’s no hope of securing the UK’s withdrawal deal by October EU negotiators have abandoned all hope that a Brexit deal will be signed with the UK at October’s European Council summit, The Independent has learned. Brussels officials said a complete standstill in talks with Britain means securing settlements on major outstanding issues in the remaining three-and-a-half months is fanciful. They point to the political logjam in Theresa May’s government as the obstacle blocking negotiations, piling pressure on the prime minister to break the deadlock this week. – Independent Unite union reportedly set to back Single Market membership In recent weeks – without being noticed by the “mainstream media” who axed industrial correspondents years ago – both the GMB and Unison have come out in favour of the UK staying in the single market. This coming week Unite will, almost certainly, do the same at it’s conference in Brighton. In fact the real battle at Unite may well be between the union’s leadership and advocates, from the automotive industry in particular, of a “People’s Vote” – with two of the four draft composites going before the union’s conference backing just such a referendum. The composite with the most support does not support a People’s Vote but does say: “To preserve our members’ jobs, Unite must campaign for the UK’s continued participation in and access to the European single market and a customs union.” – Red Roar Unite members squeeze Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit – Sunday Times (£) Trump’s National Security Adviser tells Tory eurosceptics of President’s eagerness to strike trade deal Donald Trump will do a trade deal with Britain two years after we quit the EU, a trusted aide has pledged. The US president’s national security adviser John Bolton told MPs he was eager to “accelerate” business links. Mr Bolton spent an hour with members of the Tories’ European Research Group in London last week. He spoke of the president’s enthusiasm for Brexit and his belief a trade deal can be agreed. Mr Bolton met Sir Mark Sedwill, the British national security adviser, during his visit. – Sun on Sunday Donald Trump’s aide held secret talks with Brexiteers over trade deal agreement – Telegraph (£) Angela Merkel admits: We’re going to miss UK after Brexit Angela Merkel has admitted the UK will be missed when it leaves the EU as she struck a conciliatory tone on a future relationship over security. The German chancellor acknowledged the bloc would be “losing something” with the UK’s departure, but stressed she would do everything in her power to ensure the close relationship endured and “that we continue to act as partners in the world”. Mrs Merkel’s conciliatory remarks come in stark contrast to the hard line being taken by the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier on the post-Brexit security relationship with Brussels. – Sky News Priti Patel: Whatever happens at the World Cup next week, Theresa May and her Cabinet can score a big win for Britain Whatever happens in the World Cup next week, the Prime Minister and her Cabinet have an opportunity to score a big win for Britain and leave Chequers as a united team. During Friday’s crucial discussions, they must focus on how we can deliver the vision for an outward-looking global Britain which we committed to in our manifesto. The British public have chosen a positive future — to govern ourselves rather than have an unaccountable and undemocratic elite in Europe tell us how to live our lives. This means ensuring that as we depart from the EU we take back full control over our laws, our borders and our money. Britain must leave the Customs Union and the Single Market to deliver on the 2016 referendum result. To stay partly or wholly in the EU would betray the public. – Priti Patel MP for the Sun on Sunday Graham Brady: The voters trust May, so ministers now need to unite behind her King Sisyphus cleverly cheated death but was punished with eternal labour: pushing a boulder up a mountain just to see it roll down again. Theresa May might have empathised as she approached yet another EU summit this week. Her seemingly endless task is to deliver an orderly departure from the European Union, with no overall majority in Parliament and in the teeth of opposition from some who still delude themselves that the referendum vote can be ignored. The PM is winning considerable support in the country for her determined perseverance. Unpicking four decades of EU law and regulation so closely entwined with our own statute was always going to be complicated. The arithmetic of this parliament makes it doubly so. The main opposition party might have offered much the same prescription for leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union when it was seeking votes at last year’s general election, but Labour has played all the slippery games of opposition ever since. – Sir Graham Brady MP for The Observer Sunday Times: Control of migration is not an option — it is a necessity Immigration, as bleary-eyed EU leaders discovered in the early hours of Friday morning, is one of the defining issues of our age. Europe’s as yet unresolved migration crisis is no longer about numbers, which peaked two years ago. It is about the fundamental question of how the EU should deal with those coming to its shores from poorer countries. It is also — as is Britain’s post-Brexit future — about achieving the right balance between controlling immigration, which is necessary, and prosperity. For the EU, disagreements over sharing the burden of migration have divided east and west, north and south. They threaten the survival of one of its proudest achievements, the borderless Schengen area. With Africa’s population set to increase massively in coming decades, the human traffickers known as “pushermen” will not be short of profitable trade. In his book Exodus, the Oxford University economics professor Sir Paul Collier, formerly with the World Bank, addressed what he described as “the migration taboo” and the “toxic associations” of the flow of people from poor to rich countries. Asking the question of whether migration is good or bad is as sensible as asking whether eating is good or bad. – Sunday Times editorial Ray Bassett: Ireland should quit customs union to avoid a hard border The Irish government has placed huge importance on maintaining a “frictionless” border on the island of Ireland. This is understandable, given the history of the border and also the need to preserve the stability engendered by the Good Friday Agreement. However, Dublin has completely placed the onus on the British government to come up with a solution. It has worked on the basis that it was the UK’s decision to leave the EU that caused the problem and hence has absented itself from making any suggestions. Its only contribution was to ask the British government to stay in the single market and customs union, something that Prime Minister Theresa May and her cabinet have ruled out as not reflecting the wishes of those who voted for Brexit. – Ray Bassett for News Letter Express: Brussels playing a game of poker that it can’t win Their bully-boy tactics after their contemptuously short Brexit discussion in Brussels yesterday show exactly what Theresa May has been up against. Having a split Cabinet dominated by Remainers hasn’t helped but the real reason Mrs May has made so little progress on Brexit is that the EU is determined to block our departure – and if it can’t then it wants to make Brexit as painful as possible. EU Council president Donald Tusk arrogantly tells Mrs May she must “lay her cards on the table”. The spectre is raised of political deadlock over the Irish border and the future of Gibraltar. – Express editorial John Redwood: The EU wants to rely on the WTO as the UK leaves to be an active member and supporter of the WTO The EU spent hours arguing over migration policy, with Italy opposing the draft Council conclusions. Finally they reached agreement with a few face saving formulas for the disputants. Mrs Merkel got language into the document about countering “secondary movements of asylum seekers between member states” The German Interior Minister is demanding a stop to migrants moving from Italy across the German border to take jobs, benefits and housing in Germany. I don’t see how this weak phrase solves that problem, nor see how the EU with freedom of movement and Schengen rules could prevent a lawful refugee from moving from country a to country B if they wish. Italy got language in about exploring how migrant centres could be set up outside the EU to process applications. – John Redwood’s Diary Brexit in Brief Zut alors! De Gaulle was the first to predict Brexit – Express £15bn steel giant is born with merger of Tata and Thyssenkrupp – Sunday Times (£) ‘A victory over Brussels bureaucracy’ – British MEP meets Penka the cow – Telegraph And finally… Jacob Rees-Mogg joins Snapchat, in bid to preach Brexit to young voters Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has made an account with the social media app Snapchat in order to preach Brexit and tell young voters about the “the big issues of our day.” The Etonian joins Jeremy Corbyn as one of a handful of MPs to sign up to the smartphone app as an official channel to communicate politics to the electorate. In his first address on the app on Saturday, in the form of a Snapchat story, he explained why he joined the platform, accidentally referring to it as a “site” rather than an app. The Conservative MP joked: “It’s the cutting edge of social media that has just taken over from the gramophone record. – Telegraph