News from The Current Bun’s Tom Newton Dunn.
‘Boris Johnson facing Cabinet revolt to lower his Brexit demands and cut a compromise deal with the EU. I have spoken to three different Cabinet ministers, who are all preparing to confront PM after Tory conference next week. They will insist he accepts an 11th hour compromise offer instead that they expect EU to make. They will also demand he abandons Dominic Cummings’ “aggressive” strategy to bluff out the EU with the threat of No Deal. One of the Cabinet ministers: “The PM has to take what he can get now. The Cummings plan has clearly failed. We can’t fight battles on so many fronts”.
Another Cabinet minister will propose MV4 if no deal agreed by end of EU Council on October 18: “I will tell Boris to put Theresa’s deal back to the Commons if I have to. The numbers are there for it now, everyone is desperate to end this”.
Amber Rudd preparing to stand as caretaker Prime Minister if Boris Johnson toppled by MPs, No10 believes. But Rudd describes it as “total fiction”.’
11th hour compromise offer will come from Merkel...something, something, German car makers something. Although if the offer isn’t made they are going to try MV4 on May’s deal so not entirely sure why Merkel will make an offer in the first place but there you go.