Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Brexiteers call on Theresa May to settle final deal before EU bill Boris Johnson and Michael Gove will demand tomorrow that Theresa May begin cabinet talks on Britain’s final deal with Brussels before giving her backing to hand £40bn to the EU. The two Brexiteers will attend a cabinet committee where the prime minister will ask for support to make the offer to ensure EU leaders approve the start of trade talks. It will be the first time Gove has attended the special Brexit “war cabinet”. Johnson and Gove were called in last week for talks with May’s chief of staff, Gavin Barwell, and Oliver Robbins, her chief negotiator, in the hope they would approve the offer, which May wants to make on the eve of a summit in Brussels next month so it is judged “sufficient progress” has been made to kickstart talks. – Sunday Times (£) Boris Johnson and Michael Gove seemingly want David Davis replaced with a “Task Force urgently”, it is claimed – Sunday Express Remainer rebels accused of plotting to ‘torpedo Brexit’ Pro-Europe rebels are plotting to insert new “layers of rights” into the Government’s Brexit legislation and may be attempting to “torpedo Brexit”, two senior Conservatives have warned. In an article for the Telegraph, Suella Fernandes, the chairman of the party’s Eurosceptic European Research Group, and John Penrose, a former constitution minister, criticise fellow Tory MPs for attempting to bring a controversial rights charter into British law this week despite “the newly won freedom” achieved by the Brexit vote. – Telegraph Britain threatens to scupper EU climate law over ‘Brexit no deal’ clause Britain is threatening the future of EU climate change legislation after a ‘Brexit no deal’ clause was added to a bill being voted on in Brussels this week. The clause would ban British industry from selling its carbon emission allowances on the market after Brexit in the event of no deal. British representatives could back a Polish-led coalition of coal-addicted countries against members including Germany, France and the Netherlands to scupper the bill, which would delay reforms to the Emissions Trading System (ETS). – Telegraph (£) EU taskforce plans for Brexit no-deal ‘disaster’ The Sunday Times has been given insight into confidential contingency plans by the European Commission and national authorities showing that they would need to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in preparing for a disorderly Brexit in 2019. Internal European Commission documents reveal how a “Brexit preparedness group” is planning for a worst-case scenario. The contingency plans include disconnecting the UK from European Union security databases, and will be shared with European governments. – Sunday Times (£) Philip Hammond says a ‘close EU relationship’ after Brexit is of ‘very high value’ The Chancellor appears to be willing to pay a high price for a favourable trade agreement that would see the UK continue to deal with Brussels. Mr Hammond said: “We’ve always accepted that we will have obligations to the European Union when we leave.” He also told The Times: “There’s a very high value to having a close trading relationship with the EU.” The Chancellor also defended his apparent support for a “soft” Brexit after suggesting he was not willing to put money away in the event of a “no-deal”. He added: “What I have observed is that if you stick your head above the parapet, people shoot at it. “If you’re holding a job near the top of the tree, inevitably there will be an awful lot of people who have interests in seeing you dislodged from it.” – Sunday Express JCB’s Lord Bamford reignites CBI row as he points out pro-Brexit businesses are not represented by big trade bodies Brexiteer Lord Bamford has waded back into the political debate, accusing the Government and lobby groups of ignoring the millions of small businesses that form the “backbone” of Britain. In a rare interview, the boss of manufacturing giant JCB told The Sunday Telegraph that senior politicians could have anticipated the UK’s vote to quit the European Union if they had listened to views of the country’s 5.4m private and family-owned firms. He also launched a fresh attack on the CBI, calling the lobby group a “waste of time”. – Telegraph The Brexit Veto: How and why Ireland raised the stakes On Wednesday 8 November, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar startled the Dáil by saying a breakthrough at the EU summit in December was “likely”, allowing the Brexit negotiations to move to the future trading arrangements between the UK and the EU. His comments were picked up far and wide, not least because of the importance of Ireland in the first phase of the negotiations. Yet they went against the grain of the prevailing belief that a breakthrough was very much in the balance, at best, or at worst, looking increasingly unlikely. – RTE Corbyn still silent on figure Labour would offer to settle Brexit divorce bill Jeremy Corbyn has again refused to say how much Labour would offer the European Union for the so-called Brexit “divorce” bill to unlock trade talks. The Labour leader also suggested the party would accept abiding by EU standards to ensure tariff-free trade. He also indicated that a transition period after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 would make a financial settlement “less of an obstacle”. Mr Corbyn told the Press Association: “We would have to agree that any goods we import would be at least of the quality required by European trade rules as they are at the moment, if not better.” – Belfast Telegraph ‘EU will be insolvent’: Rees-Mogg warns Brussels no deal will harm the bloc As pressure mounted on the Prime Minister to break the deadlock in Brexit talks by handing billions to Brussels, Jacob Rees-Mogg urged Theresa May to hold firm. She should not be “blackmailed” into paying a huge divorce bill to the bloc he said. Mr Rees-Mogg insisted that the UK’s negotiating position was much stronger than the EU’s. He said: “If we say that we are not continuing to contribute without a deal to the last 21 months of the multi-annual financial framework then the EU has a huge hole in its budget – it has no legal ability to borrow and it is effectively insolvent for that period. – Sunday Express https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/881380/brexit-latest-news-jacob-rees-mogg-brussels-no-deal-harm-eu-theresa-may-barnier-davis Tim Martin: Japanese cars doing well despite being non-EU The Brexiteer pointed out Japanese car manufacturers’ success in the European market without a bilateral trade deal between Tokyo and Brussels. EU leaders have said Britain will have to wait until Theresa May and her Brexit negotiators offer off more money to the EU’s coffers before trade talks can begin. EU Council President Donald Tusk set yet another two-week ultimatum, insisting Britain still must make concessions on money and the Irish border if negotiations on the future relationship are to start before Christmas. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, popular Brexiteer Mr Martin said UK businesses can be assured leaving the customs union and single market will not have damaging effects on trade. – Sunday Express Suella Fernandes: We cannot incorporate the EU Charter into UK law or else it will be chaos This week Parliament will be asked to vote on whether to incorporate the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights into UK law. If Labour, acting with others, manage to force this through there will be legal chaos. Not only will it hand new and long lasting powers to UK courts to strike down UK laws over the head of Parliament on woolly interpretations of EU ‘rights’, but it will oblige them to continue to follow the EU’s Court. Few outside the legal profession have heard of the innocuous sounding EU Charter. Firstly it is not the Human Rights Convention that underpins the controversial European Court of Human Rights. Jealous of its rival the EU was determined to have its own Human Rights powers. Secondly, by rights the EU Charter should not even exist. Fearing this EU power grab, Tony Blair fought it all the way, from its conception in 2000 to its eventual incorporation in the Lisbon Treaty. – Suella Fernandes MP for the Sun on Sunday Priti Patel: Brexit is an act of supreme economic sense Embracing the freedom of Brexit gives us the choice of what sort of country we want to become and means we can look forward to a more positive tomorrow. That freedom allows us to give our children the best possible future with stronger access to the major economies of tomorrow. The next century will be the global century. The countries that succeed will be those that are nimble and able to use their human capital to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. With our educated workforce, our language as the international language of commerce, we are ideally geographically located to prepare for success. Following Brexit, we will have the tools at our disposal to take advantage of these attributes, and to benefit from the new opportunities that are emerging around the world. – Priti Patel MP for the Telegraph (£) Iain Duncan Smith: We should focus on the real benefits that will come with Brexit Remember how during the referendum campaign, the British public were told, by a line-up of bankers, business organisations like the CBI and the then Chancellor, that a vote for Brexit would bring Armageddon down on our heads and leave a black hole in public finances amounting to a whopping £30billion? George Osborne even threatened that there would be a most savage emergency budget the day after. This preposterous Project Fear budget would have included spending cuts worth £15billion, a £15billion tax hike and a steep rise in the basic rate of income tax. Well, as Sunday Express readers will recall, the economy did not go into a slump. Instead it has continued to confound those Remain doom-mongers and grow. – Iain Duncan Smith MP for the Sunday Express Suella Fernandes and John Penrose: Sucking up flabby Euro-rights law is not the point of Brexit independence We voted in different ways in the referendum but, since June 2016, we’ve been united in trying to deliver the decision. Whether you were a “remainer” or a “leaver” before, we’re all democrats above all; and that means finding – and delivering – the best possible Brexit for Britain. The EU Withdrawal Bill should be spectacularly simple: when we leave the EU, all current EU law will become British law so life goes on as normal after Brexit. No cliff edges here. It ought to be a boring, technical exercise in legal copying and pasting. But there’s a danger it will be used as a Trojan horse, to thwart the referendum result by stealth. – Suella Fernandes MP and John Penrose MP for the Telegraph (£) Janet Daley: Where have these defenders of our sovereignty been hiding since 1972? Were they the Leave army, the usual forces of resistance against the usurpation of British law by the European courts, and of governing power by the European Commission? No, they were not. Most of them were, in fact, precisely the people who have been content to accept the settlement that has prevailed for the past 45 years in which the power of Parliament and the British courts has yielded authority to the European Union. – Janet Daley for the Telegraph (£) Matthew Goodwin: Oh please, Brexit really was not a Russian plot The idea that Twitter bots somehow subverted weak-minded Britons is further undermined by the recent finding that a mere 1 per cent of people, when polled, name Twitter as the news source they were most likely to rely on for accurate news. How this handed Leave a winning margin of more than one million votes, I don’t know. – Matthew Goodwin for the Telegraph (£) Sarah Baxter: I fear no City Brexodus — I’ve been to Frankfurt Principally, I don’t believe disaster lies ahead. Some difficult headwinds, certainly, but I’ve just returned from Frankfurt feeling pretty chipper that the city is not about to take over from London as Europe’s financial capital after Brexit. I was there as a parent, cheering on my son in a football tournament at Frankfurt International School, where Goldman Sachs and other banks have been block-booking as many as “dozens” of places in anticipation of the tsunami of new arrivals. – Sunday Times (£) Tony Parsons: Brexit deniers and self interested MPs make mockery of our country’s democracy What happens if the MPs fighting to block Brexit actually get their way? What happens to our democracy if the Remainer wet dream comes true and the votes of 17.4million people are wiped from the records as if they never mattered a damn? Forget the damage the Brexit deniers are doing right now — making an economy wrecking Labour government more likely, making the British appear weak and undecided in Brussels — and reflect on what happens if the biggest vote in the history of this nation is ignored. Who knows what furies will be unleashed? But our country will be permanently damaged if the Brexit blockers rub our noses in the dangerous message — democracy doesn’t work. If the referendum deniers get their way, and the UK’s exit from the EU is thwarted, they will spit in the eye of a people who were told — assured, promised, warned — that their vote on this matter was final. – Tony Parsons for the Sun on Sunday Brexit in brief British driverless car technology is the key for overtaking the EU – Express editorial Tanaiste used private email for Brexit file – Sunday Times (£) The UK’s fastest growing tech company has just raised another $100m – City A.M.