the brexit 's supporters are angry that ollie robbins, one of theresa may's chief advisers, supportsrvant. it seems as though he's the guy in charge coming up with the chequers plan which has been badly shaken by a lot of brexit years. they will be very angry because in the headline, it says she is in control but is ollie robbins in control? a lot of our readers have written in about the sky previously because a lot of express readers support brexit. you are talking about stoking up the next corner? it doesn't take long for one of those. it doesn't seem to improve the shambles we've got because you've got people like boris who haven't really done much since they stood down, probably keeping his powder dry. in his nice fancy house. and dominic raab, who probably thought he got a realjob 15 days ago, is now talking about, it's a shifting of the chequers... sounds like they are preparing for no deal, stockpiling food and medicines, the scary stuff. no deal, stockpiling food and medicines, the scary stuffm no deal, stockpiling food and medicines, the scary stuff. if we crash out, he's th

ollie robbins because i haven't.hrough his veins and what i hope is that dominic is able to ensure that the brexit that people voted for a couple of years ago is the one that is now going to be delivered. but i'm afraid we have seen some compromises with that white paper and we need more detail to ensure we can do those trade deals with america. as we heard from president trump when he came the other day, i don't think he is as much of a fan of the white paper as me. we will see. i think liam fox trade secretary needs to get across america pronto to make sure that we can do the trade deals that everybody thought we were going to do throughout the world. everybody thought we were going to do throughout the worldlj everybody thought we were going to do throughout the world. i don't think anyone is happier than nigel that we have finally reached recess. if you look at the government, it is a government in absolute disarray. it is extraordinary that the prime minister in the last few minutes before we broke today sought

from the prime minister that he is the brexit secretary, because there has been this feeling that ollie robbinslly sidelined david davis, and i think there is possibly an element of truth in that. he wa nts to an element of truth in that. he wants to go there knowing he has his own man. he has the mandate. i think he has an even though i thought the prime minister was a little bit woolly before the select committee yesterday about guaranteeing the fa ct yesterday about guaranteeing the fact that she had in place, we can't do this, we are about to leave, and she kept saying we are going to agree there is, there is no question of talking about leaving at the moment. the fact of the matter is we have to have theirs. we have to have this meaning we have to leave the eu? we have to have the option on the table, and we haven't had that, really. which option? that we are leaving. however much she wants to negotiate that we are staying, the option that we are leaving has to be on the table. this is so watered down, this whole white paper, we have to get across the fact that the european court of justic

and that's why olly robbins andi hand.e an extended conversation and negotiation with michel barnier and that will be as we enter effectively the last three months of these negotiations. obviously, it is a negotiation, it ta kes two obviously, it is a negotiation, it takes two sides and we need to work with our european partners. but this is not the point of departure. let's bea is not the point of departure. let's be a bit clearer, because my interpretation of michel barnier's response to the chequers agreement was response to the chequers agreement was that it opened the gateway to begina was that it opened the gateway to begin a discussion. you're saying that's not how it should be received, that as far as you're concerned, there aren't going to be large, substantive changes now to the overall package agreed at chequers? no, i don't think we can say what the other side does in negotiation. what i'm saying is that we have been looking at various different models all the way along andi different models all the way along a

postponed until next week, it was supposed to come out on thursday, and that's presumably to give ollie robbinsdavis stuff from it. i think when they see that, again they will probably be reasonably positive. but when it comes down to the talks, and let's remember there won't be any meaningful talks this side of september, when it comes down to the meaningful talks, i think they are going to extract the maximum concessions from us and like lemmings, we will give them, because there is no alternative. she sold there is no alternative. she sold the pass and brexit and unless conservative mps and a few labour mps stand up to her, we are going to get this brexit in name only and thatis get this brexit in name only and that is not what 17.4 million people voted for. they voted for brexit to really m ea n voted for. they voted for brexit to really mean brexit. something theresa may keeps telling us is going to happen but it clearly isn't any longer. stephen, do you think the public will accept that? accept it as the best that was available and they will swallow it if they would prefer something diffe

and did you or ollie robbins show the proposals to angela merkel and all the eu before showing them to, and i use the words in the ministerial code, in good time, given its critical, legal and constitutional importance, and if so when? first of all, can i lay on the head, there has been a suggestion i have seen that we actually took papers of the white paper and showed it to people outside of the united kingdom. we did not. you ask about the ideas that are in the white paper. in fa ct, that are in the white paper. in fact, ideas that are in the white paper, some of the ideas in the white paper that perhaps have caused most debate and discussion following the chequers agreement and the publication of the white paper, were ideas that were set out as potential issues for us to look at in the florence speech that i gave last september. there had been discussions about these throughout, and that was slightly fleshed out in the mansion house speech that i gave earlier this year, so those proposals were there and were considered and looked at by ministers. we then decided the route we would g

the nitty—gritty of the job was being passed to a man in the background, senior civil servant olly robbins reports directly to the prime minister. what david davis did was he kept the conservative party together in the sense that, as long as he was in the cabinet, conservative brexiters could think, "well, he's a principled eurosceptic, he has been for decades, and if he thinks this is going to work out 0k, then we can be relatively happy". now, i think his resignation means that there will be a lot of soul—searching amongst that wing of the parliamentary party, that's a problem for the prime minister. so, with robbins still in place, the davis resignation might not have a material impact on the negotiations at all. in fact, judging by today's responses, it might even help the prime minister. there is good will towards mrs may in brussels, recognition that were she replaced, the negotiation, as fraught as it is, would be in even greater peril. so you trust that she will be able to get her party together? i was always trusting the british prime minister. but will they trust in the pick and