Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Jeremy Hunt announces more than £350m extra a week for NHS as Theresa May locks Britain into leaving EU Theresa May has agreed to pour an additional £384 million per week into the NHS after Brexit – exceeding the amount mooted by the official Leave campaign and effectively locking the UK into leaving the EU. The boost for the health service, which the Prime Minister will set out in a speech on Monday, is intended to mark the 70th anniversary of its creation, partly by drawing on the “Brexit dividend” that will arise from the country ceasing payments to the EU. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, who campaigned for Remain during the 2016 referendum, says the Brexiteer pledge of extra funding for the NHS “can now unite us all”. In a heavily criticised slogan, the Leave campaign had said the UK sent £350 million per week to the EU in cash terms, which could be spent on the NHS instead. – Telegraph (£) As we leave the European Union and stop paying significant annual subscriptions to Brussels, we will have more money to spend on priorities such as the NHS – Theresa May MP for the Mail on Sunday The British public voted for £350m a week for the NHS. We will deliver that – and more – Jeremy Hunt MP for the Telegraph (£) Theresa May insists £20bn cash injection for NHS can come from money we save by quitting EU – Sun on Sunday £600 million a week to go to NHS in huge victory for Leave campaign – Express May to pledge 20-billion-pound health service cash boost – Reuters NHS to get extra £384 million per week after Brexit – ITV News Prime Minister ‘steadfast’ in commitment to Brexit as government faces another week of gruelling votes… Mrs May is set for a crunch battle with Tory Remainers on Wednesday as part of a crucial round of voting on the EU Withdrawal Bill. It comes after they rejected her attempts to agree a compromise over demands that MPs get a greater say over Brexit. A ceasefire was declared briefly last week after Mrs May agreed to listen to their concerns. But after hours of negotiations the Remainers attacked a compromise amendment Mrs May had believed all MPs could support. No 10 sources said the Prime Minister was “absolutely holding steadfast” to a series of principles, including that Parliament could not be allowed to overturn the will of the people shown in the EU referendum. They said they would be “working hard” until Wednesday to get MPs on board. No 10 believes its approach has peeled off some of the rebels. – Express Ex-minister warns of further resignations over Brexit – Sky News Well done, gang, you’ve done us Remainers proud. Which is exactly why you MUST stop now, or we will all be sorry – Dan Hodges for the Mail on Sunday …as she has secret talks with Labour MPs to save Brexit from pro-EU rebels… Theresa May is engaged in secret talks with Labour MPs ahead of crunch Brexit votes, we can reveal. The Prime Minister hosted an extraordinary meeting with the Leave supporters as she faced a showdown with her own pro-EU rebels. The behind-closed-doors meeting took place in Parliament as she attempted to thwart a defeat in the Commons. At least three senior Labour MPs are understood to have met her on Monday. A meeting was called ahead of MPs voting on whether to give Parliament a meaningful vote on the deal she strikes with the European Union. A Whitehall source said: “The Labour MPs are simply staying true to their principles and staying true to the Labour manifesto they were elected on. – Sun on Sunday …while she is warned she must guarantee ‘divorce’ money will not be handed over if EU refuses to give Britain a trade deal Theresa May has been warned that she must enshrine in law a guarantee that the UK’s £39 billion divorce bill from the EU will not be handed over to Brussels if it refuses to agree a trade deal. Speaking after a minister admitted that the country’s draft withdrawal agreement includes no “conditionality” on the payment of the bill, MPs said the Prime Minister would have to insert such a clause into future legislation. Brexiteers in Parliament and Government believe the measure should be included in the planned Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill, which will enshrine the Withdrawal Agreement into UK law. – Telegraph Abolish the House of Lords if peers betray voters on Brexit, MPs demand A concerted campaign to dramatically overhaul the House of Lords will begin in earnest this week, as peers launch a second attempt to attempt to water down Theresa May’s Brexit legislation. On Monday, as the Withdrawal Bill returns to the upper chamber, MPs will issue a warning to members of the body accused of attempting to thwart the UK’s exit from the European Union, in a Commons debate sparked by a public petition which voiced fears that peers were wielding a “disproportionate amount of influence and power” to frustrate the Commons. – Telegraph (£) Britain can thrive with ‘no deal’ say experts The new proposal, in which neither side levies tariffs on the other’s goods, is contained in a paper produced by the pro-Brexit Economists for Free Trade (EFT). The group argues that a World Trade Deal under World Trade Organisation rules is the UK’s best bet. The report, which has been sent to the Prime Minister, argues that such a deal would also provide a major boost to the UK economy. The Economists for Free Trade report criticises ministers for being “slow to make preparations for no deal” but stresses there is “still time” to make it work. – Express UK risks spiralling into trade hell if we stay in EU customs union – Sun on Sunday > Professor Patrick Minford on BrexitCentral today: Why a WTO-based exit from the EU is best for the UK Don’t call Brexit backers ‘thick’! Labour at war as Yorkshire MP attacks ‘patronising’ attitude of her colleagues One of Tony Blair’s former Ministers has angrily accused fellow Labour MPs of calling her Yorkshire constituents ‘thick’ because they voted for Brexit. Pro-Brexit Don Valley MP Caroline Flint lashed out after a fellow ex-Labour Minister mocked her as ‘Labour’s Jacob Rees-Mogg’. Ms Flint spoke out at a meeting of Labour MPs as tempers flared over the party’s growing split over Brexit. Witnesses say the dispute started when Welsh MP Stephen Kinnock, son of former Labour leader and EU Commissioner Neil Kinnock, turned on MPs who backed Brexit. – Mail on Sunday Frank Field: Brexit should begin a British renaissance that starts with the abolition of the House of Lords The Tory leadership in the House of Lords hasn’t yet ruled out the prospect of peers overturning the will of the House of Commons when the Brexit Bill returns to them this week. To defy the elected House once is a misfortune. To defy it twice, particularly when this is about implementing the result of a referendum, is an act of insurrection. The Commons must act. One of the many good side-effects of Brexit should be the abolition of the upper House and its replacement by a much smaller senate. Leaving the EU was never a one-stop goal. It was a crucial political objective only because it will allow us to settle all the big issues facing the country in our own way and time. – Frank Field MP for the Telegraph (£) Janet Daley: Westminster is embroiled in obscure Brexit detail – but the people just want to get on with it The latest eruption in the Tory Brexit wars involves a dispute about whether Parliament will, at some unspecified future date, have a right to amend an amendment. This circumstance will arise only in the unlikely event of our negotiations with the European Union ending without a deal. Those two preceding sentences will seem perfectly reasonable if you are a professional member of the political/media club, or you have an occupational vested interest in Britain remaining in the EU, or you are an amateur but dedicated obsessive on the subject of Brexit. If you are a normal person they will be largely incomprehensible. I cannot remember a time when the discrepancy between the perceptions of reality in Westminsterland and the rest of the population has been so extreme. – Janet Daley for the Telegraph (£) Tony Parsons: Brexit is going to happen, Anna, so YOU suck it up and let democracy speak “Suck it up,” advises Remoaner MP Anna Soubry – three little words that mean so much. “Suck it up” infers that democracy is dead in this country. “Suck it up” means that 17.4million votes in the EU referendum — the largest mandate in British history — do not mean a damn thing. “Suck it up” implies that the British people are too stupid to be trusted with a vote. “Suck it up” means intellectual giants like Anna, above, know best. “Suck it up” proclaims that the pro-EU establishment in this country — the unelected House of Lords, the licence fee-funded BBC, the MPs of every stripe who put their loyalty to the EU far above any obligation to their constituents or their country — feel perfectly free to veto the instructions of the British people, because we are pig- ignorant peasants whose opinions are irrelevant. – Tony Parsons for the Sun on Sunday Niall Ferguson: The EU melting pot is melting down I believe that the issue of migration will be seen by future historians as the fatal solvent of the EU. In their accounts Brexit will appear as merely an early symptom of the crisis. Their argument will be that a massive Völkerwanderung overwhelmed the project for European integration, exposing the weakness of the EU as an institution and driving voters back to national politics for solutions. Let us begin with the scale of the influx. In 2016 alone an estimated 2.4m migrants came to the 28 EU member states from non-EU countries, taking the total foreign-born population of the union up to 36.9m, more than 7% of the total. – Niall Ferguson for the Sunday Times (£) Alex Wickham: ‘Absolutely no one is happy’ – what did or didn’t go down in a week of Brexit “Every day seems a little worse.” That was the view of one Whitehall official during yet another frenzied week in which No 10’s party management on Brexit looked as perilous as it has ever been. Approaching the second anniversary of the referendum, Theresa May has found herself in a situation where both Leavers and Remainers are unhappy with her to the point of mutiny. The Prime Minister has played a game of chicken, leading both sides into believing she would carry out their desired version of Brexit. The hardcore Remainer faction of Tory MPs, led by Dominic Grieve and Anna Soubry, is accusing Downing Street of treachery over its compromise amendment published on Thursday. The Government’s position is that there will be a non-binding vote in the Commons if no deal is reached with the EU by 21 January 2019. Grieve had sought greater powers for Parliament to direct what happened in such a scenario. – Alex Wickham for i News Brexit in brief Javid is right to relax immigration rules, but we must also invest in our own people – Dia Chakravarty for the Telegraph (£) The EU needs a new migration policy – John Redwood’s Diary Tory Brexiteer who called for Electoral Commission to be abolished is nominated to help oversee it – Telegraph (£) Justine Greening must not be Tories’ candidate for Mayor if she rebels over Brexit, Brexiteers say – Telegraph (£) Fishermen fear ‘sell out’ – Express Tory MP, 33, eloquently sums up Brexit argument in 440-word Commons speech – Telegraph