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summary
That’s it
from us this evening. Thanks for reading and commenting. Here’s a summary of
the day’s main events:
The prime
minister was facing fresh questions over his links to Jennifer Arcuri after
more damaging headlines this evening. The Guardian revealed that a Whitehall
official who ran the scheme that granted Arcuri a coveted entrepreneur visa had
worked for Boris Johnson when he was mayor. Johnson had earlier refused
repeatedly to deny he had had an affair with Arcuri.
The UK will
put forward “very constructive and far-reaching proposals” to the EU for an
alternative to the backstop, the prime minister pledged. Boris Johnson made the
claim after reports suggested the UK wanted to set up border checks a few miles
either side of the Irish frontier, rather than on it. Johnson distanced himself
from the proposals, though he said some checks being needing to be carried out
was simply the “reality”. Dublin has made clear it considers the reported
border proposals unacceptable.
The prime
minister addressed those and a range of others issues during a host of
broadcast interviews. You can see a comprehensive summary of those here.
Priti Patel
promised to “end the free movement of people once and for all”. The home
secretary delivered her conference speech in the early evening, promising an
Australian-style points system to replace the principle.
The
automatic early release of some prisoners is “madness”, according to the
justice secretary. Robert Buckland told the Tory party conference he wants to
end the system under which nearly all offenders sentenced to immediate custody
are released at the midway point on licence in the community.
The
Conservative MP, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, was asked to leave the conference
after what the party described as a “totally unacceptable” incident. Police
were called to deal with the issue on Tuesday afternoon.
Dover faces
losing £1bn in trade per week under a no-deal Brexit, it was claimed. Despite
extensive preparations, the port’s chief executive told a fringe event he still
expects to see a huge downturn.
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