“Theresa May will today insist that peace and stability in Northern Ireland is her “highest priority” as she pledges to ensure that border controls will not be erected after Brexit. The Prime Minister will travel to Belfast today to hold talks with First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, to discuss delivering stability in Northern Ireland in the wake of the EU referendum.” – Daily Telegraph
“Tory MPs yesterday hit out at plans for Britain to keep access to the EU single market without full control of migration. Proposals being drawn up in Brussels suggest the UK could get limited powers to curb EU immigration in return for paying hundreds of millions to remain part of the trade bloc.” – Daily Mail
More Brexit:
>Yesterday:
“The more Britain expands its global trade, the more competitive pressure we exert on our existing trade partners and the stronger the EU’s commercial interest in minimising trade barriers with the UK becomes. To maximise that leverage requires a close partnership between the two big names on the British side of the negotiations — David Davis, who is leading talks with the EU, and Liam Fox, who is charged with reaching free trade agreements (FTAs) beyond Europe.” – Dominic Raab, The Times (£)
“Theresa May is drawing up legislation to tackle unscrupulous bosses and excessive boardroom pay, as proof she intends to build a Britain “that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us”. Mrs May’s promise to tackle “irresponsible behaviour in big business” has been under the spotlight in her first weeks in office, with criticism by MPs of Mike Ashley at Sports Direct and Sir Philip Green’s stewardship of BHS.” – FT
More business:
More May:
Comment:
>Today:
>Yesterday:
“John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has made an impassioned plea for Labour supporters to stop “trying to destroy our party just to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn” after it was claimed a member of his staff broke into a rival MP’s office. Pausing in the middle of a live television interview and asking “what camera am I on?”, McDonnell issued a direct appeal to Corbyn’s opponents after being questioned over the allegedly illegal intrusion in Seema Malhotra’s Westminster office.” – The Guardian
More Labour:
>Today:
>Yesterday: Video: WATCH: Marr questions McDonnell over the Malhotra office allegations
“On the left, if Mr Corbyn holds on to the Labour leadership, we will hear talk from some of the defeated about a new liberal centre grouping that represents the 48 per cent who voted Remain in the referendum. And if he loses to Mr Smith, expect an anti-market party of the left to emerge. Both options would reinforce the cultural detachment of the left from its traditional class base.” – FT
Editorial:
“Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal democrat leader, has founded a new political movement which will finance moderate parliamentary candidates from all parties in a bid to stop British politics being “dragged away to the extremes”. The movement, called More United UK, has said it will finance political candidates from all political parties and supply them with the on-the-ground campaigners.” – Daily Telegraph
“The head of the Democratic National Committee has resigned after the leaking of 20,000 emails exposed rifts in the party leadership, throwing Hillary Clinton’s campaign into turmoil on the eve of this week’s convention. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chairwoman, said on Sunday that she would be stepping down at the end of the convention in the wake of the leaks that have cast both her and her office in a negative light.” – FT
Republicans: