Boris Johnson news: More than 50 Labour MPs ‘ready to back new Brexit deal’, amid fears PM ready to cut Northern Ireland loose
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Your support makes all the difference.More than 50 Labour MPs could be ready to rally behind a compromise Brexit agreement allowing Boris Johnson to avoid crashing out of the EU, according to a leading member of a cross-party group.
It comes as DUP leader Arlene Foster demanded a meeting with Mr Johnson amid growing unionist fears that he will cut Northern Ireland loose in his desperation for a deal.
Tory rebel Oliver Letwin, meanwhile, has backed a second Brexit referendum, while Jeremy Corbyn vowed Labour would fight a general election with the “biggest people-powered campaign we’ve ever seen”.
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Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has explained that he grabbed John Bercow’s leg to stop him leaving while others clutched at his arms in a symbolic attempt to stop the shutdown.
Here’s our deputy political editor Rob Merrick with all the details of the late-night drama.
Jeremy Corbyn is speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton today. The Labour leader will tell delegates that a “general election is coming” but he won’t allow Boris Johnson to “dictate terms”.
Having promised an election once a no-deal Brexit is thwarted, he will seek to galvanise trade unionists with promise of the “biggest people-powered” campaign ever seen.
Lizzy Buchan has more.
Reports this morning that DUP leader Arlene Foster is travelling to London to meet Boris Johnson this afternoon. Foster recently revealed will not be seeking a seat in the next UK general election. Could it lead to greater flexibility over the backstop?
Parliament may be suspended, but Yvette Cooper says she will keep on working anyway. The Labour MP says her home affairs committee is “meeting informally” to hear from borders and freight transport chiefs.
Fair to say Theresa May is coming in for a lot of flak this morning for awarding Geoffrey Boycott with a knighthood.
Domestic abuse campaigners have criticised the decision to honour the former England cricketer, who was convicted in France in 1998 of beating his then girlfriend in a Riviera hotel. Boycott has said he does not “give a toss”.
Here’s Maya Oppenheim with more on the row.
Unite boss Len McCluskey, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, has warned Boris Johnson the workers are “coming for you”, in a fiery speech to the Trades Union Congress.
He said: “We know who you are Boris Johnson. We know your game. Your wish to be Churchillian, rather than the Wreck-it Ralph that you are.
“But know this. We will fight you in our hospitals, we will fight you in our factories, we will fight you in our communities. Pick your beach prime minister – we’ll never surrender. We are the workers of Britain and we’re coming for you.”
A reminder – for the benefit of McCluskey in case he missed it – than Corbyn condemned Johnson’s use of violent / war-related imagery in the Commons yesterday.
“I condemn the language the prime minister used when he talked about a “surrender bill”. We are not at war with Europe, they’re our partners.”
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