asking for side negotiations on transport in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The Brexit secretary was confronted by Barnier during their most recent meeting in Brussels over correspondence sent in recent days to EU capitals by the Department for Transport. The letters had asked the member states to prepare to engage with the British government in side deals on aviation and haulage.

MailBrexit ‘chaos’ in Britain will save the EU by deterring other countries from leaving the bloc, a senior MEP taunted today. Guy Verhofstadt, who is representing the European Parliament in the Brexit talks, pointed to a fall in support for quitting the EU in Denmark. Right-wing populists have also fallen far short of expectations in Swedish elections in recent days, while liberal parties topped the polls.plotted to force a no confidence vote in the Prime Minister, which could come before the Conservative Party Conference at the end of this month. Leave supporters are so determined to kill off Mrs May’s controversial Chequers plan for Brexit that they are now prepared to oust her if she refuses to change tack.

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Theresa May’s premiership was under fresh pressure last night after Tory MPs met in private to discuss how to oust her. Around 50 MPs spent nearly an hour war-gaming ways and means of getting rid of the Prime Minister at a gathering of the European Research Group (ERG), the Press Association understands. A number of MPs told how they had already submitted letters of no confidence to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee,