Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Back my plan or face no Brexit at all, Theresa May tells rebels… Theresa May has warned there may be ‘no Brexit at all’ because of attempts to wreck her controversial blueprint for Britain’s departure from the European Union. She claims that rival Commons revolts by warring pro- and anti-Europe Tory MPs threaten to sabotage hopes of winning a post-Brexit deal for Britain. And in a hard-hitting message to Brussels, the Prime Minister says she will not budge an inch on the proposed Brexit deal she agreed with Cabinet Ministers at her Chequers summit. Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, Mrs May dramatically raises the stakes in her bid to win support for her proposal to make a success of leaving the EU. – Mail on Sunday My deal is the only Brexit deal: wreck it at your peril – Theresa May MP for the Mail on Sunday Theresa May delivered a strong ultimatum to her warring MPs to either support her or there will be no Brexit deal – Sun on Sunday Theresa May’s Brexit plan is an embarrassing climbdown, but I would vote for it nonetheless – Daniel Hannan MEP for the Telegraph (£) Mrs May over‑promises and under‑delivers on Brexit – Sunday Times editorial (£) Whip up a sense of national betrayal and Boris could still get into No 10 – Adam Boulton for the Sunday Times (£) > Nigel Evans MP on BrexitCentral today: I’ve been driven from content with the Chequers plan to extremely concerned in a matter of days …as David Davis brands her ‘dishonest’ over claims of a lack of a Brexit alternative… David Davis has accused the prime minister and her aides of being “astonishingly dishonest” for claiming that there is no alternative to her Chequers plan for Britain’s future deal with the EU. The former Brexit secretary accused the government of having “blinked” in its negotiations with Brussels by abandoning his plan and replacing it with a deal that would see Britain stick to EU laws on the sale of goods. Writing in The Sunday Times, Davis denounced May’s plan, saying adhering to EU rules would leave Britain’s “fingers caught in this mangle” and render the control of parliament over UK law “more illusory than real”. – Sunday Times (£) May has left our fingers in the EU mangle but there is a way to get free – David Davis MP for the Sunday Times (£) > John Longworth on BrexitCentral today: Remainers in government have wilfully neglected to consider an alternative Brexit vision …while Steve Baker exposes Whitehall’s secret ‘cloak and dagger’ plot to foil Brexit… Theresa May has presided over a “cloak and dagger” plot to undermine Brexit, in a move that will “blow apart” public trust in democracy, the Prime Minister’s former Brexit minister has told The Telegraph. Steve Baker, who quit the Government along with his boss, David Davis, last Sunday, says he resigned after discovering that for months an “establishment elite” had secretly been pursuing a plan for a much softer Brexit than the one on which he and Mr Davis had been working. The move effectively rendered the Brexit department a “Potemkin structure to [distract from] what the Cabinet Office Europe unit was doing for the Prime Minister,” he adds. – Telegraph (£) If we wreck Brexit, the Tories will split – Steve Baker MP interviewed for the Telegraph (£) …and Jacob Rees-Mogg makes his most outspoken attack yet on the Prime Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has launched a scathing attack on “oddly secretive” Theresa May, accusing her of breaking the public’s trust by deceiving Leave voters over Brexit. It came as Boris Johnson, described by colleagues as feeling “utterly betrayed” by the Prime Minister, prepares to deliver a resignation speech this week criticising her Brexit plans. Writing exclusively in the Sunday Express, Mr Rees-Mogg, who until now has resisted criticising Mrs May, let rip at the Prime Minister, claiming she had abandoned her “Brexit means Brexit” mantra, wasted taxpayers’ money by “pretending” she would deliver Brexit and describing her as a “Remainer who has stuck with Remain”. – Express Even Peter Mandelson concludes the May plan is a ‘national humiliation’ Britain’s former trade commissioner in Brussels, Lord Mandelson, is making common cause with hardline, anti-EU Tories, saying Theresa May’s latest Brexit blueprint would lead to “national humiliation” and leave the country in a worse position than if it turned its back on the entire European economic system. In an extraordinary intervention that shows that even the most ardent Remainers in parliament find the plans unacceptable, the Labour peer says the plans would deliver “the polar opposite of taking back control”, and would mean “the EU would ultimately call the shots, not just now but indefinitely”. – Observer The Chequers Brexit compromise offers the worst of both worlds. – Lord Mandelson for the Observer New poll gives Labour four-point lead ahead as Ukip revives at Tories’ expense Labour has opened up its biggest poll lead over the Conservatives since shortly after last June’s general election, as the government’s chaotic handling of Brexit appears to have triggered a dramatic fall in support for Theresa May and the Tories – and a sudden revival of Ukip. The latest Opinium poll for the Observer puts Labour on 40%, the same score as last month, but four points ahead of the Tories who have dropped by six points since early June to 36%. The fall in Tory support would appear to be the result of Conservative supporters who backed leaving the EU turning to Ukip, whose support has shot up by five points from 3% last month to 8%. – Observer Overwhelming 62% of voters want Theresa May to stand down as PM before next general election as popularity hits all-time low Theresa May popularity has been badly dented by her “soft” Brexit blueprint, a poll reveals today. An overwhelming 62 of voters think she should stand down as PM before the next general election. More than a third – 36 per cent – say she should go immediately. Mrs May’s personal rating has sunk to a new low, with even Tory voters convinced her time is up. The devastating verdict on her Brexit plan is delivered in a Deltapoll survey for The Sun on Sunday. More than half of voters – 53 per cent – say her soft Brexit plan is a betrayal of the referendum decision to leave the EU or an ill thought-out compromise that will please nobody. – Sun on Sunday Trade experts offer alternative that would allow May to tear up ‘common rule book’ Theresa May’s plan to follow EU rules after Brexit will “box the UK into a corner”, trade experts have warned, as they publish an alternative “roadmap” to a trade deal with Brussels. A new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank states that the Prime Minister’s proposal for a “common rulebook” on the production of goods and agricultural products would force the country to become a “rule taker without any representation during the process of rulemaking”. Instead, experts led by Shanker Singham, a former US trade adviser, propose that the Government negotiate a system of “mutual recognition” by the UK and EU of each other’s sets of standards. – Telegraph Liam Fox says leaving the EU gives Britain ‘a great deal of freedom’ to negotiate trade deal with US International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said leaving the EU under Theresa May’s Brexit plan will give Britain ‘a great deal of freedom’ to negotiate trade deals with the U.S. Following Theresa May’s meeting with President Donald Trump at Chequers, Dr Fox said ‘very positive’ discussions had been taking place with US officials on a future deal after Britain has left the EU. In his joint press conference with the PM on Friday, President Trump appeared to row back on an earlier newspaper interview in which he said the Government’s latest proposals would kill off the prospect of a deal with the US. – Mail on Sunday Australia is ‘still up for UK trade’ – Express UK ‘free to do deal with US’ – Express The Irish border and its farms will slaughter a US deal – Dominic Lawson for the Sunday Times (£) Failure to pass the Trade Bill will put British jobs and livelihoods at risk – especially if there’s a no deal Brexit – Liam Fox MP for the Telegraph (£) Piers Morgan finds out what Trump really thinks of Brexit Trump revealed the Queen told him the names of all the presidents she had met. ‘Harry Truman was the first president that she got to meet and know, and she went through a whole list. It was a very nice moment, Piers, very nice.’ I asked if they’d discussed Brexit. ‘I did. She said it’s a very – and she’s right – it’s a very complex problem, I think nobody had any idea how complex that was going to be…Everyone thought it was going to be ‘Oh it’s simple, we join or don’t join, or let’s see what happens..’ ‘Did she give you any clue as to which way she thinks about it?’ Trump suddenly clammed up. – Daily Mail Prepare for no-deal Brexit, German business groups tell members German business groups have urged their members to step up preparations for a hard Brexit that would see Britain crash out of the European Union next year without negotiating a deal. British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a cabinet agreement last week for “a business-friendly” proposal to leave the EU, aimed at spurring stalled Brexit talks. But the hard-won compromise has come under fire from within her governing Conservative Party and may yet fall flat with EU negotiators. “Even if the British government is moving now, companies must plan for the scenario in which there is no agreement,” Joachim Lang, managing director of the BDI, Germany’s biggest industry lobby, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. – Reuters Better pay and job prospects send consumer confidence surging British workers are increasingly confident in their finances and careers as the UK’s jobs boom feeds through into better pay and job prospects, despite deepening gloom among business leaders. Consumer confidence has risen to its highest level since Deloitte started measuring it in 2011, with its index – which is always in negative territory – rising to minus four. Employment has continued growing this year despite worries over the state of the economy, giving workers more confidence that their jobs are safe and that they can find more work if needed. Unemployment is down at 4.2pc, the lowest rate since the mid-1970s. – Telegraph British car manufacturer McLaren Automotive announces £1.2bn investment programme Mike Flewitt, Chief Executive Officer at McLaren Automotive said: “Everyone at McLaren Automotive remains constant in their focus of designing and crafting the world’s best drivers’ cars. True to McLaren’s spirit, however, our ambitions, continue to grow and our £1.2bn Track25 business plan which covers 18 new models, including a new McLaren P1TM,, is clear proof of that. We are a luxury brand that is committed to investing in innovation, whether that’s in the development and manufacture of our own carbon fibre tubs as part of a new £50m British-based production centre, new powertrains with our entire range due to be hybrid by 2025 or the deployment of technology to enhance the driving and owning experience.” – Zenoot Theresa May: My deal is the only Brexit deal – wreck it at your peril Our Brexit deal for Britain seizes the moment to deliver the democratic decision of the British people and secure a bright new future for our country outside the European Union. It restores our national sovereignty, so that it is our Government that decides who comes into our country, our Parliaments that make our laws and our courts that enforce them. It puts an end to the vast membership subscriptions we pay to Brussels, delivering a Brexit dividend to support domestic priorities like our long-term plan for the NHS. – Theresa May MP for the Mail on Sunday Sun on Sunday: Theresa May must be wary of voters scorned over Brexit deal turning to Jeremy Corbyn Theresa May probably thinks she can get the Brexit deal through Parliament. She might even think that, eventually, she will get it through Brussels in some form. But one group seem determined to punish her for fudging Brexit: the voters. As our poll reveals today, 53 per cent hate the White Paper. The anger among many Leave voters — who think they are being stitched up — is palpable. Her Chequers proposal shows she has sided with Remainers in the Treasury and Civil Service, who are determined to stop any short-term shock of exiting the bloc, and so have convinced the PM to blur her “red lines”. – Sun on Sunday Sunday Times: Mrs May over‑promises and under‑delivers on Brexit Theresa May said something revealing to Donald Trump when he apologised to her for his spectacularly ill-mannered criticisms in his interview with The Sun. According to the US president, the prime minister told him: “Don’t worry, it’s only the press.” Nobody will have been too surprised if that were Mrs May’s attitude but, putting aside any loss of amour propre that we might feel, it is a comment that underlines the scale of her predicament. The prime minister has not worried enough about the press and how she chose to shape public opinion on Brexit. She has made the classic politician’s error of overpromising and underdelivering. Her early gung-ho attitude, when she apparently carried all before her, exuded an approach to Brexit that was so hard and so confident that it shifted the dial. – Sunday Times editorial (£) David Davis: May has left our fingers in the EU mangle but there is a way to get free When I arrived at Chequers a week ago it was plain that something was up. Social media was rife with anonymous comments supposedly emanating from Downing Street, saying that any cabinet minister who resigned would at once lose his or her ministerial car and have to get a taxi back to the station. Taxi phone numbers would be provided! There was a Basil Fawlty element to the whole silly business when it was reported that the taxi firm cited had gone out of business a year previously. It was a crude pressure play, one that I was quite sure that our famously upright prime minister would have nothing to do with, so I ignored it. Nevertheless it augured a bad day when the cabinet decided by a majority of about three to one to make concessions to the EU that were so fundamental they risked undermining the whole Brexit process. – David Davis for the Sunday Times (£) Telegraph: Remainers might have captured Brexit, but there is an alternative to Theresa May’s customs sell-out These are grave times for the Conservative Party, and for the country. If the Government destroys the confidence of the public by failing to deliver the Brexit the people voted for, it does not merely risk electoral oblivion on a par with John Major’s defeat of 1997, propelling into No 10 a Labour Party led by an avowed Marxist – it threatens the integrity of the political system itself. The old parties will splinter and new, nastier, even extremist ones will emerge, a calamity that must be avoided at all costs. The people were told: “This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide.” After the referendum, Theresa May reiterated time after time that the UK would be taking back control of its laws, its borders and its money. Red lines were established and then confirmed, and while it was not enough to win Mrs May a majority in the general election last year, millions of voters, many of whom had never supported the Tories before, backed her because they trusted her to do what she said she would. – Telegraph editorial (£) Bernard Jenkin: The EU wants to break our national will — Brexit victory would be like winning the Falklands War The past seven days have been some of the most tumultuous in politics. It started with the Chequers Cabinet meeting, where the Prime Minister told her Brexit ministers to accept the new policy or resign. Within a few days, both David Davis and Boris Johnson resigned. Others followed. On our 2017 Brexit manifesto, Conservative MPs were mostly united. This change of policy has shattered that unity. After Monday’s resignations, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said: “It will be crystal clear at the end of this negotiation that the best situation will be to remain a member of the EU.” He means that the EU will force the UK to accept a punishment Brexit, or to retreat from Brexit altogether. – Bernard Jenkin MP for the Sun on Sunday James Forsyth: Three things that Theresa May can do to try and avert a political disaster If Theresa May gets a Brexit deal and it can’t get through parliament, then we are heading towards the most dangerous political crisis in living memory, I say in The Sun this morning. For I very much doubt that the 80 percent of MPs who are opposed to no deal, would let Britain leave without an agreement. But disregarding the result of the referendum—either by abandoning Brexit or leaving only to make Britain, effectively, a non-voting member of the EU—would cause a democratic shock. 17.4 million voters would be, understandably, furious about having their vote ignored. So, what can Mrs May do to avert this disaster? Well, I think there are three things she should do. – James Forsyth for the Spectator Peter Mandelson: The Chequers Brexit compromise offers the worst of both worlds When I first looked at what had been agreed on Brexit at Chequers, I thought the plan would please nobody, but that the public might conclude that these proposals represent the best available. In reality, it’s a spatchcocked, half-in, half-out plan and the business response was frustration: it is better trade news for goods but a disappointing hard Brexit for services. Those who voted to “take back control” were more vitriolic: it is an attempt to remain close to Europe, full of concessions and compromises, and therefore a million miles from what they expected. – Lord Mandelson for the Observer Terry Barnes: From the Anglosphere, we watch with horror as Britain bungles its Brexit chance to go global Growing up in Australia during the 1960s and early 1970s, Britain loomed large in not only Australian national consciousness, but in our daily life. School assemblies and cinema outings ended with standing for God Save the Queen. Union Jacks flew atop our public buildings and iconic structures like the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Australian Broadcasting Commission announcers spoke with cut-glass BBC accents. British TV programmes and pop music were an integral part of our culture. Australia was a Little Britain. So Australians watched the 2016 Brexit referendum with intense interest. As in the UK, few saw the result coming, but when it did it was welcomed widely. To us, and to the world beyond the European Union, it seemed that Britain was breaking its voluntary shackles and becoming great again. – Terry Barnes for ConservativeHome Brexit in brief Britain will miss the Special Relationship when it’s gone – John O’Sullivan for the Spectator Matthew Parris is right: Theresa May’s Brexit plan is terrible – Rod Liddle for the Spectator The least important Brexit red line – Oliver Wiseman for CapX Whip up a sense of national betrayal and Boris could still get into No 10 – Adam Bolton for the Sunday Times (£) Make or break for PM after EU fudge – Nick Ferrari for the Express I’m the one who backs May! Brexiteer MP David Davies (no, not him) reveals why he supports the Prime Minister’s plan – Mail on Sunday