Theresa May to announce clean Brexit – out of the single market and customs union – in Tuesday’s big speech Theresa May will announce that Britain is seeking a clean and hard Brexit in a speech this week that will promise to create a “strong new partnership” with the European Union. The prime minister will finally lay her cards on the table, making clear that the UK is set to pull out of the single market and the European customs union in order to regain control of immigration and end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. – The Sunday Times (£) In her speech, Mrs May is expected to say that Britain must: be prepared to leave the customs union to secure free trade deals across the world; regain full control of its borders even if that means ending single market membership; no longer be bound by European Court of Justice rulings after Brexit, despite claims to the contrary; unite after the “division” of the referendum by ditching the terms “Leaver” and “Remainer”. – Sunday Telegraph Mrs May will say: “One of the reasons that Britain’s democracy has been such a success for so many years is that the strength of our identity as one nation, the respect we show to one another as fellow citizens and the importance we attach to our institutions means that when a vote has been held we all respect the result. The victors have the responsibility to act magnanimously. The losers have the responsibility to respect the legitimacy of the result. And the country comes together. The overwhelming majority of people, however they voted, say we need to get on and make Brexit happen. Business isn’t calling to reverse the result but planning to make a success of it. And the House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly for us to get on with it too.” – Sunday Express Nicky Morgan was last night heading for a fresh clash with Theresa May after urging the Prime Minister not to adopt a ‘blinkered’ approach to cutting immigration. The Remain-supporting former Education Secretary –who was barred from Downing Street last month in a row over the Prime Minister’s leather trousers – spoke out following reports that Mrs May would use a major speech on Tuesday to signal a ‘hard’ Brexit line on controlling borders. – Daily Mail …As BBC reports Downing Street having said that reports of pulling out of the single market and customs union were “speculation” Theresa May is expected to reveal the most detailed insight yet into her approach to Brexit negotiations, in a speech on Tuesday. She will urge people to give up on “insults” and “division” and unite to build a “global Britain”. Downing Street refused to comment on suggestions the prime minister will outline a “hard Brexit” strategy. It said reports she may signal pulling out of the single market and customs union were “speculation”. – BBC News Lord Lawson also calls for ‘clean Brexit’ in which Britain quits single market and customs union Theresa May must negotiate a “clean Brexit” which sees Britain quit both the single market and the customs union, a former Tory chancellor says. Lord Lawson has written a foreword to a paper by Gerard Lyons, former chief economic adviser to Boris Johnson, and economist Liam Halligan, which calls for Britain to pull out the single market and the customs union to ensure that the UK has control of its borders. – Sunday Telegraph Labour to demand Commons vote on final Brexit deal if Theresa May loses Supreme Court case Labour will use the government’s expected defeat in the Supreme Court this month to force Theresa May to give MPs a vote over the final Brexit deal. The Telegraph has learnt that the party plans to table an amendment demanding MPs get a veto on the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. Should the move not win enough votes among MPs, the party will use its position in the House of Lords to urge the Government to make the guarantee. – Sunday Telegraph Voters back Tories to deliver best Brexit by three to one Almost three times as many people trust the Conservatives to deliver the best Brexit deal for the UK as Labour, according to a new Opinium/Observer poll… Opinium found that 30% of people said they most trusted the Conservatives to deliver a successful Brexit, compared with just 13% for Labour and 11% who cited Ukip. A further 36% of respondents said they did not trust any of the main parties or did not know. On immigration, 22% trust the Conservatives most, with Ukip second on 17% and Labour third on 14%. Among Leave voters, 34% trust Ukip most on immigration, 25% trust the Tories most and only 7% Labour. – The Observer Chancellor: Britain may change ‘economic model’ if EU plays hardball Britain could change its economic model to regain competitiveness if it were to leave the European Union without an agreement on market access, British finance minister Phillip Hammond said in a German newspaper interview published on Sunday. In a thinly veiled threat that Britain could use its corporate tax as a form of leverage in Brexit negotiations, Hammond told Welt am Sonntag he hoped Britain would remain a European-style economy with corresponding tax and regulation systems. – Reuters William Hague proposes ‘simple’ EU work permit system to prevent ‘complex’ Brexit deal The former Conservative party leader said a straightforward deal, in which any EU national with an offer of employment in Britain was automatically given a work permit, would mitigate the damage to UK businesses following the anticpitated departure from the single market. Welfare support would be limited or withdrawn entirely, making the country less attractive to benefit tourists, a move that would automatically see migration numbers fall, he argued. – Sunday Express Nick Clegg says May should go for Norway-style trade deal Theresa May should return the UK to the same 1960s trading arrangements it had with Europe before it joined the EU if she decides there is no alternative to a hard Brexit, according to former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg. Before a major speech by the prime minister on Tuesday, in which she is expected to lay out more details of her Brexit plans, Clegg says the “most sensible and softest” option would be for the UK to re-enter the European Free Trade Area (Efta), which it was instrumental in establishing 57 years ago. – The Observer Netherlands ‘will block UK-EU deal without tax avoidance measures’ The Netherlands will block any EU trade deal with the UK unless it signs up to tough tax avoidance regulations preventing it from becoming an attractive offshore haven for multinationals and the rich, the deputy prime minister of the country has said. Lodewijk Asscher, who was recently elected leader of the Dutch Labour party (PvdA), which is currently a partner in the ruling coalition government, has written to socialist leaders across the continent stipulating his party’s red lines in coming talks. – The Observer David Davis MP: Britain will shine post‑Brexit — and must make it work for Europe too We will respect the views of the British people, we will bring back control over our laws and make our own decisions on immigration, we will aim to maintain co-operation on security as it is now, if not enhance it further, and we will seek the most open possible market with the EU while furthering trade links with the rest of the world. Leaving the EU means Britain has the chance to become, as the prime minister has put it, “the global leader in free trade”. That will mean making not just the economic case, but the moral one, too. I believe free trade is the greatest force in the world for social justice, preventing conflict and ending poverty. – David Davis MP in The Sunday Times (£) Liam Halligan: Clean Brexit can avoid the cliff-edge chaos Leaving the EU, as we heard before the referendum, means leaving the SM. As “members”, our laws stay under European Court of Justice jurisdiction and the multi-billion-pound annual payments to Brussels continue. We’d also remain unable to control numbers of EU migrants living and working in the UK – which, after our referendum, makes the SM a non-starter. The economic advantages of being “in” the SM are, anyway, wildly exaggerated. We can trade freely with the EU, yes, but it’s the slowest-growing economic bloc in the world. Since 1999, the share of UK exports sold in the EU has fallen from 61pc to 44pc. The real number is probably below 40pc given the “Rotterdam effect” – with UK goods bound for that port often going on to global markets. – Liam Halligan in the Sunday Telegraph (£) Sunday Times: Mrs May inches towards EU departure The prime minister will tell us she is aiming for a new partnership with the EU. That implies, as she has hinted, leaving the single market, continued membership of which is incompatible with the central message Mrs May took from the referendum: that most voters want to control Britain’s borders and to be free from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice… Brexit will also mean leaving the EU customs union, which is what the logic of the government’s position implies. – Sunday Times (£) editorial Hamish McRae: Britain’s Brexit prospects are not as catastrophic as Project Fear warned This is not a zero-sum game, or a negative for both, but rather a positive outcome for the continent of Europe as a whole. If that seems Panglossian, consider this. A successful UK economy is good for Europe, and in the past few weeks there has been a shift in mood about the future of the UK post-Brexit. – Hamish McRae for The Independent Dominic Raab: Labour and Lib Dems are about to realise we can’t stay in single market AND control our borders Since 2016 was the year that confounded the pessimists, we can go into 2017 with more confidence. Even doom-monger-in-chief, Bank of England governor Mark Carney, this week conceded the UK economy will do better this year than expected. He also warned our European friends that trade barriers would hurt them more than Britain. With UK employment and the FTSE 100 at record levels, and governments from the US to New Zealand wanting free trade deals, we should be positive. As Theresa May would say, we must deliver Brexit, so Britain can go from strength to strength. – The Sun on Sunday Robert Griffiths: Outside the EU and the single market we can build a people’s Brexit Too many EU supporters on the left and in the centre have spent the past six months smearing Leave voters as gullible, undereducated, narrow-minded racists… Detailed polling analysis shows that democratic sovereignty was the single biggest reason why people voted Leave last June — and that a slight majority of people who regard themselves as anti-capitalist (30 per cent of the electorate) also voted Leave… [Jeremy Corbyn’s] “Peterborough Declaration” provided the basis for unity and advance around a people’s exit, in place of continuing labour movement and left disunity on the issue of EU membership. But it requires clarity and commitment on two fundamental prerequisites: respect for the people’s decision on June 23 and the need to leave both the EU and its Single Market, while seeking access to the latter on negotiated and mutually beneficial terms. – Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, in the Morning Star Brexit in brief Our European allies didn’t back us up in the past, so May can’t put her faith in them now – Daniel Kawczynski MP for ConservativeHome Labour MPs back call for party to set Brexit red lines – The Guardian Pound’s ‘flash crash’ that sunk sterling to a 31 year low was driven by inexperienced traders and Brexit doomsters – Daily Mail Scotland’s Brexit minister accuses Tories of ‘con-trick’ – ITV News