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Boris Johnson will make his comeback at Tory party conference next month - just as Brexit negotiations reach their climax. The former Foreign Secretary has agreed to give a keynote speech at a fringe event during the four-day gathering in Birmingham, the Daily Mail has learnt. His decision to speak comes after party chiefs last week launched disciplinary proceedings against him over his comments on the burka. The intervention will prove a nightmare for Theresa May as she attempts to unite the party faithful around her Chequers plan. Boris Johnson, pictured yesterday in Central London. Mr Johnson is expected to make a keynote speech at a fringe event at the four-day event in Birmingham The intervention will prove a nightmare for Theresa May (pictured) as she attempts to unite the party faithful around her Chequers plan The conference will take place as Brexit talks will be at a crucial stage. Just ten days before the annual event kicks off on 30 September, Mrs May will fly to Salzburg … [Read more...] about Nightmare for Theresa May as Boris Johnson prepares to make a comeback speech at a fringe event for next month’s Tory Party conference

A campaign to stop Boris Johnson becoming prime minister and taking the country into a no-deal Brexit was launched by moderate cabinet ministers on Saturday as the first shots were fired in the Tory contest to succeed Theresa May in Downing Street. After May bowed to pressure on Friday and announced she would resign as Tory leader within two weeks, justice secretary David Gauke and international development secretary Rory Stewart condemned Johnson’s readiness to embrace a no-deal, saying it would be hugely damaging to the national interest. The move, part of a concerted “anti-Johnson” push by opponents of a hard Brexit, followed comments by the former foreign secretary on Friday, soon after May’s resignation speech in Downing Street, that the UK would definitely leave the EU “deal or no deal” on 31 October if he became leader in July. The remark infuriated the soft-Brexit wing of the party, with some MPs and ministers even warning that there would be … [Read more...] about Stop Boris Johnson campaign launched by Tory moderates opposed to no-deal Brexit

Boris Johnson's Government has accused Remain-supporting former minsters of "deliberately leaking" details of no deal planning by Theresa May's government to damage his trip to the European Union this week. The leak, which comes ahead of Boris Johnson's meeting with President Emanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel next week, warns of fuel shortages, passenger delays at EU airports and a hard border with Ireland. The document also claims that the price of fresh food would rise and there would be a rise in public disorder if Britain does not leave the EU with a deal on October 31. The UK will be hit with a three-month "meltdown" at its ports, a hard Irish border and shortages of food and medicine... … [Read more...] about Ex-Remain Cabinet ministers accused of trying to sabotage Boris Johnson EU visit with no-deal leak

The campaign to leave the EU has turned into a leadership bid by Boris Johnson, Ken Clarke has said – calling him simply a nicer version of Donald Trump. The former Tory cabinet minister, who has served as chancellor and home secretary, suggested Johnson was exploiting people’s fears about immigration in a similar way to Trump, the controversial US presidential candidate who is expected to become the Republican nominee. “I think Boris and Donald Trump should go away for a bit and enjoy themselves and not get in the way of the serious issues that modern countries in the 21st century face,” Clarke said. “He’s a much nicer version of Donald Trump but the campaign’s remarkably similar in my opinion and about as relevant to the real problems the public face. “The personalities get in the way and it’s no good turning the leave campaign into a leadership bid for Boris Johnson and anti-immigrant fears.” Clarke’s accusations … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson is nicer than Trump but just as divisive, says Ken Clarke

It takes me back to the 1990s as reliably as the first notes of Wonderwall. In the Sunday Telegraph Boris Johnson compared the European Union to Hitler’s campaign to dominate the continent, and I was transported to the days when Tory Eurosceptics fighting the Maastricht treaty routinely compared “Brussels diktats” to the pan-European ambitions of the Führer. Their hero was Nicholas Ridley, who had resigned in 1990 after telling Dominic Lawson, then editor of the Spectator: “I’m not against giving up sovereignty in principle, but not to this lot. You might as well give it to Adolf Hitler, frankly.” In his book The Tainted Source (1997), the scholar John Laughland argued that far from being the institutional consequence of the Third Reich’s defeat, the EU was another means of pursuing many of its objectives. Goebbels, for instance, had hoped to end customs barriers, create a single market and fix exchange rates, while Hitler aspired to sweep … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson has pressed the big red button marked ‘Hitler’. Watch out