Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team Davis reveals Whitehall has recruited thousands to help manage Brexit… Nearly 3,000 new jobs have been created across Whitehall to manage Brexit, David Davis revealed to the Cabinet at a meeting this morning. Many of the jobs are specialist roles, including 300 additional lawyers recruited to the Government Legal Department alone in the last year. The Government expects the number of posts to grow and HMRC has confirmed that it will recruit an additional 3,000-5,000 staff next year. The Brexit Secretary told his colleagues that extra investment was needed within HMRC, even in the event of a free trade deal with the EU – a point which has been made increasingly in recent weeks by many, such as Dover MP, Charlie Elphicke. – BrexitCentral Up to 8,000 jobs created to make Brexit happen.- The Times (£) Prime Minister to draft in 8,000 officials to deliver on Brexit — deal or no deal – The Sun Preparing for Brexit deal to cost £1m a day – The Times (£) Ministers discuss no-deal Brexit – The Times (£) …as he confirms that the Brexit negotiations will resume next week Brexit discussions are to resume next week as the UK’s preparations for its departure in 2019 are being ramped up. Brexit Secretary David Davis said he would meet his EU counterpart Michel Barnier a week on Friday to take stock of progress of talks between officials. He told peers that the failure to secure a deal with the EU was “not impossible but very, very improbable”. No 10 said 3,000 new Brexit jobs have been created in the civil service while the Treasury has set aside £500m. At a meeting of the cabinet earlier, Theresa May and her senior ministers discussed a range of “negotiated outcomes” leading up to the UK’s departure in March 2019. – BBC Michel Barnier says he’s ready to speed up Brexit talks – Telegraph …and says financial services could be “make or break” in the talks David Davis has said the treatment of financial services “could be make or break” in the Brexit talks – but insisted he will “never say ‘I’m going to fold’.” In an update to the EU select committee, the Brexit secretary dismissed claims that the divorce bill would be make or break, saying instead there were a number of other “fundamental” issues, including our future regulatory relationships and financial services, that could threaten to derail talks. “There will be a whole series of these kinds of things, but frankly I won’t be coming into this committee, and saying yes I am going to fold on this – ever, not on one of these,” he said, adding that “of course beneficiaries… [affected businesses] will say we want this done.” – City A.M. Labour demand Brexit studies are released Labour is seeking to up the pressure on ministers over their refusal to release a series of Brexit impact studies. The government has confirmed that 58 reports looking at different sectors of the economy have been prepared. But it is resisting calls to publish them, saying to do so would undermine the UK’s negotiating position. On Wednesday Labour will use what it calls an “ancient, but still effective” Parliamentary tool to force the government’s hand. A “humble address”, tabled by shadow Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer, would request the Queen to direct Brexit Secretary David Davis to release the documents. The vote will take place during Labour’s opposition day debate in the Commons. – BBC Labour tempts Tory MPs to vote for release of Brexit studies – Politico World Bank finds UK ‘better for business than Germany and France’ The UK is a better place to do business than Germany and France despite fear mongering from City of London billionaires, it has been revealed. A study by the World Bank found just one EU nation ranked higher than Britain, which held firm in seventh place a year on from the nation’s decision to leave. Denmark, the EU’s top ranking member state and one of the few bloc controlled states not to be tied to the failing Euro, came in at third place. Meanwhile, the bloc’s economic powerhouses of Germany and France languished behind the UK in 20th and 31st respectively. – Express How much the EU is still costing Britain a week Britain handed a colossal £13.9 billion to the EU last year, official figures revealed today. Data from the Office for National Statistics showed that the eye-watering sum, equivalent to £267 million a week, was paid to Brussels by UK taxpayers to cover the country’s membership of the bloc. Details of the lavish contribution were set out in the annual “Pink Book”, which documents the net flow of financial transactions between the UK and the rest of the world. Brexit campaigners last night seized on the figure as fresh reminder of why voters backed quitting the EU and a confirmation of the urgent need to cut ties with Brussels as soon as possible. – Express Official data proves Boris was wrong about £350m a week to Brussels. It’s actually £363m – Steerpike for The Spectator London Stock Exchange says EU must treat clearing industry differently The London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) has welcomed heightened supervision from the EU of some clearing services but dug in its heels over plans to force the industry to move away from the UK. In response to new supervision rules on euro clearing proposed by the European Central Bank (ECB), the LSE argued that the EU must treat separate parts of the clearing industry differently. While some require closer EU supervision, others do not. The City of London currently handles more than 90 per cent of euro-denominated derivatives clearing activities. The ECB in 2015 failed to push big clearing houses from London to the Eurozone, but Brexit has reignited the issue. – City A.M. As a haven of sensible regulation, the City might even gain from Brexit – Jeremy Warner for the Telegraph (£) Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita: No-deal Brexit would barely impact UK exports to the EU If the UK fails to secure a new trade deal with the EU and must face tariffs with no preferences, total UK’s exports to the EU would drop by at most 2%. The impact is small because the EU’s import demand for UK exports is fairly inelastic, especially for products that that may face higher tariffs. – Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita for Vox Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Theresa May’s Brexit strategy hits a legal minefield Theresa May’s quest for a “Canada plus” deal in Brexit talks has run into serious legal obstacles and may ultimately prove impossible, risking bitter disappointment and a political crisis next year as reality hits home.Trade lawyers and European officials warn that even if the EU wants to grant the UK a bespoke deal that preserves unfettered access for goods and services, it cannot do so without granting parallel concessions to Canada, South Korea, and other countries that have free trade agreements. This would open up a Pandora’s Box.“It is a minefield. -Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for the Telegraph (£) Matthew Smith: A year of Remainer warnings hasn’t dented Leave voters’ belief in Brexit In October 2016, YouGov asked both Remain and Leave voters what impact they thought Brexit would have on a variety of things such as the economy, food prices and their personal finances. The research revealed that, in contrast to Remainers, only a small minority of Leave voters believed that Brexit would have a negative impact on any issue. One year on, YouGov finds that the proportion of Leave voters with negative expectations of Brexit is almost completely unchanged. – Matthew Smith for The Times (£) Ross Clark: Britain isn’t short of jobs. It’s short of skills Amid the attention given to the ‘Three Brexiteers’ in their efforts to establish post-Brexit trade with the rest of the world, the work of business secretary Greg Clark often gets overlooked. But in conversation with James Forsyth at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, this is what we learned about the government’s business strategy. The event was sponsored by the Nuclear Industry Association.With unemployment at a 40-year low, Britain can claim to be the ‘jobs capital of the world’, but we can’t claim to be the earnings capital of the world.- Ross Clark for The Spectator Nigel Farage: The EU has infiltrated our universities. We must fight back against its propaganda machine In the fierce debate during the second referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty, I found myself being harangued publicly by a university professor from Dublin. I eventually asked her whether she was a Jean Monnet professor, an EU-funded post created in honour of the French political economist and EU architect. I had to push more than once, but in the end the answer came: “Yes, I am proud to hold that title. – Nigel Farage MEP for the Telegraph (£) Brexit comment in brief Urgent transition issues needing attention to be ready for Brexit – James Arnell for ConservativeHome The worst of Brexit talks is yet to come – Politico (£) Halloween ‘no deal’ nightmare – John Longworth for CommentCentral The planes will fly and the City will be fine – John Redwood’s Diary The secret Brexit files contain our future – they must be released – Abi Wilkinson for the Guardian Brexit news in brief Nigel Farage asks EU negotiator Michel Barnier for one-to-one talks – Evening Standard Brexit fog befuddles Bank of England on rate hike – Politico City urges Hammond to avoid Budget surprises amid fears over Brexit – Telegraph The scariest chart in the world when it comes to Brexit negotiations – Express Most of UK’s fruit and veg is from other EU nations – Guardian Experts warn transition deal could become ‘permanent’ – Express NIESR claims Brexit vote has cost each household more than £600 a year – Guardian Brexit will take five years, claims Lord Darling – Express