Our crack visuals unit has worked up this graphic showing estimated votes for and against Johnson’s deal, based on a Guardian analysis of MPs’ likely intentions - and while ministers insist they have the numbers, it’s clear that it remains agonisingly close. We’ll have a full story on that launching soon, but in the meantime, here are a few key points from Rowena Mason:
• Around eight Labour MPs are likely to back the deal. On Sunday, Lucy Powell suggested that she could be one of that group, telling Sky News: “I probably wouldn’t have voted for it if we had had a straight up and down vote on it over the weekend but I do think now that we’ve got to move forward.”
• No 10 claims that several more Labour MPs could follow.
• Around 20 former Tories who lost the whip or left the party voluntarily are expected to support the prime minister.
• The support of Lady Sylvia Hermon, the independent unionist MP, appears to be in doubt. During the debate in the House of Commons on Saturday she demanded a “guarantee that there is nothing in this deal.. which undermines or weakens the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.”
On these numbers, it would take just two MPs changing their minds to change the result.
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All is not well at the People’s Vote campaign, Rowena Mason reports: clashes between PR guru Roland Rudd and Labour peer Peter Mandelson have sent the organisation into crisis just as the prospect of testing MPs’ support for a second referendum becomes a reality.
Alastair Campbell’s involved, too, as a leak to the Mail on Sunday showed:
The emails suggested Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, another former New Labour communications adviser, had been attempting to work together against Rudd earlier this year. In one email, Campbell said: “I do not see how this gets done without a public battle and it should happen soon and be fast and brutal.”
You can read the story here:
Of the six Labour MPs who voted against the Letwin amendment on Saturday, only Caroline Flint is not standing down. Helen Pidd went to her firmly leave-supporting constituency, Don Valley, to find out what her constituents think, and found that they remain firmly in her corner. 75-year-old Bob Davis, for example, said:
I think she’s wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. She has listened to her constituents, it’s as simple as that... It would be an insult to me to run a second referendum. I believe strongly in democracy.”
You can read the whole piece here:
Today's key developments
- The government is to seek a meaningful vote in the Commons on its Brexit deal on Monday.
- Michael Gove has disclosed the government’s Operation Yellowhammer contingency plan to handle a no-deal Brexit is being triggered.
- Gove says the risk of the UK leaving the EU without a deal has grown as a result of yesterday’s vote but believes Brexit will happen on 31 October.
- Labour will back an amendment next week calling for a referendum on Johnson’s deal, the shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, said.
- John McDonnell said Johnson behaved “a bit like a spoilt brat” after the prime minister sent an unsigned letter to the EU asking for a delay, and then a second arguing against it.
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A key player in Britain’s first involvement in the European Union has called for a second Brexit referendum after attending his first protest at the age of 91.
Uwe Kitzinger worked as an adviser to Winston Churchill’s son-in-law Christopher Soames from 1973 to 1975, when Lord Soames became the first British vice-president of the European commission.
Kitzinger attended the People’s Vote march in London on Saturday and believes the public are now better informed to make a choice.
“I do not see how the question of sovereignty over the issue of Europe can be settled without the people of this country having a say, now that they are much better informed, and now that there is actually a proposal,” he told PA.
“We now see the beginnings of a transition to a destination, but it’s very clear that the destination is meant to be one of national tribalism, and that is the beginning of the kind of international tensions which can so easily lead to war.
“It is the negation of all I stood for and all I worked for in my career, but that isn’t the important thing.
“The important thing is what happens to my grandchildren, and their children.”
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Boris Johnson faces another rollercoaster week in the Commons after insisting the UK will still leave the EU in 11 days’ time.
Despite being forced by parliament to request a Brexit delay from Brussels, ministers talked up their chances of rushing Brexit legislation through the Commons.
A potential new government showdown with the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, looms on Monday when he will rule on whether the prime minister can hold a “meaningful vote” on his Brexit deal.
Johnson abandoned plans for such a move on a special Saturday sitting of the Commons after suffering an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the former minister Sir Oliver Letwin.
Labour is planning to try to hijack the prime minister’s Brexit legislation when he presents it to MPs by tabling amendments demanding a new referendum and customs union with the EU.
The Shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, indicated Labour could even support the withdrawal agreement bill if a new national poll on it is backed by MPs.
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Jeremy Corbyn speaking in Liverpool on Saturday night.
My message to Boris Johnson and company: jog on with your daft ideas.#Marr #Ridge pic.twitter.com/1FzxoJwafy
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 20, 2019
Alliance MLAs will not go to the Stormont recall sitting on Monday
.@naomi_long has confirmed Alliance MLAs will not go to the Stormont recall sitting tomorrow - says it will only increase “acrimony” between parties and bring Stormont chamber into further disrepute pic.twitter.com/d9o4BjhSml
— Jayne McCormack (@BBCJayneMcC) October 20, 2019
Jo Swinson has described breaking up the United Kingdom, if Scotland was to vote for independence, as “much more difficult than what we’re experiencing with Brexit”.
The Liberal Democrat leader said it was a lesson she had learned throughout the process of Britain’s attempt to leave the EU since June 2016.
Speaking on radio programme Scotland’s Talk In, the East Dunbartonshire MP said she was the only party leader campaigning to keep Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU.
Last week at the SNP’s conference in Aberdeen, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said a second independence referendum north of the border “must happen next year”.
But Swinson said: “I want the UK to stay in the European Union, that’s what I’m working for and I believe that’s still possible. I believe we can still do that and I’m not giving up on that cause because I think we’re better off having Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU.”
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Here is the link to the Commons order paper outlining Monday’s agenda:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201920/cmagenda/LargeP_OP191021.pdf
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Government to seek meaningful vote on Brexit deal on Monday
The order paper for Monday confirms the government will seek a meaningful vote on its Brexit deal again, as announced by Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, on Saturday.
However, the Speaker of the Commons may disallow this because the government already had one attempt at getting the motion through on Saturday, when it was amended by parliament to prevent it from being a meaningful vote.
This meant that the Benn act was triggered and Boris Johnson had to write to the EU requesting an extension to article 50.
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How would any future ‘meaningful vote’ on the PM’s Brexit deal work?
Opposition MPs are likely to put forward amendments to any government motion to approve Johnson’s Brexit deal, and Bercow has suggested “manuscript” amendments submitted on the day itself could be accepted.
Opposition MPs have indicated they would seek to amend the deal to try to “shape” Brexit. This is likely to include trying to hold a second EU referendum, securing a future customs union or inserting safeguards on workers’ rights and environmental protections.
Losing another meaningful vote on the deal could lead to the PM facing an opposition motion of no confidence, paving the way for a general election and further clouding the precise future of the Brexit process.
Has Johnson sent a letter to Brussels seeking a Brexit delay?
Under the terms of the so-called Benn act, which was passed against the PM’s wishes, Johnson was compelled to write to the EU asking for a three-month Brexit extension if he had not secured a deal by 11pm UK time on 19 October. He told the Commons on Saturday: “I will not negotiate a delay with the EU, and neither does the law compel me to do so.”
But he did eventually send two letters to the European council president, Donald Tusk. There was an unsigned photocopy of the request he was obliged to send under the Benn act, followed by a letter explaining why the government did not actually want an extension. There was also an explanatory letter from Sir Tim Barrow, the UK’s ambassador to the EU, which was sent to Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, the secretary general of the Council of the European Union.
Will the EU agree to an extension?
Despite the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, raising doubts over the likelihood of another Brexit delay, that decision needs to be taken by all 27 remaining EU states. The EU could set a different length to an extension, either shorter or longer than the three-month one cited in the Benn act.
The EU could decide not to formally respond to the PM’s letter until it sees if Johnson can get the withdrawal agreement bill through parliament this week. If the PM gets the cill through, there could be a special gathering of EU leaders on 28 October.
If the deal needs more time at that stage to get through parliament, leaders could agree to a short “technical” extension.
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Here’s a helpful Q&A from the Press Association on the state of play:
Why did a ‘meaningful vote’ on Johnson’s Brexit deal not go ahead on Saturday?
MPs voted by a majority of 16 to back an amendment put forward by the former cabinet minister Oliver Letwin to withhold approval of the latest deal agreed between Johnson and Brussels “unless and until implementing legislation is passed”. Letwin, who lost the Tory whip for voting against the government on Brexit previously, said the amendment was “insurance” against the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal by mistake on the scheduled deadline of 31 October. After he lost the vote, the prime minister decided not to have the so-called “meaningful vote” on his deal.
When will Johnson next try to get his Brexit deal through parliament?
The government is set to bring the withdrawal agreement bill – the legislation needed for Brexit – to the Commons this coming week. However, time is running out to beat the 31 October deadline because the European parliament would also need to ratify it. Ministers could try to hold additional sittings to get the legislation through.
The Commons leader, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said the government wanted to hold another meaningful vote on Johnson’s deal on Monday and would make an emergency business statement to achieve this. The Commons Speaker, John Bercow, said he would consider whether to allow the government’s plans.
Does Johnson have the numbers to achieve a Commons majority for his Brexit deal?
In the current hung parliament, much will hinge on the PM securing support from pro-Brexit Tories who voted down Theresa May’s deal on three occasions, plus the 21 former Conservatives who lost the whip over the issue of a no-deal Brexit.
The former Tory cabinet minister Amber Rudd has indicated she will support Johnson’s deal and thinks there is a “coalition for getting the prime minister’s deal through”. The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said he believed the government had enough backing, telling the Andrew Marr Show: “We seem to have the numbers in the House of Commons.”
The DUP is strongly opposed to Johnson’s deal due to the arrangements for Northern Ireland, so the backing of enough Labour MPs in leave-supporting seats will also be vital.
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Johnson holds talks with Erdoğan over Syria crisis
Moving away from Brexit, Boris Johnson has held telephone talks with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, about the situation in Syria.
Johnson expressed concern over Turkey’s military action in the north of the country, Downing Street said.
The two leaders are looking to hold discussions with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron on the situation, as well as issues including migration and terrorism.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “The prime minister welcomed the agreement between the US and Turkey on the temporary suspension of fighting, which he said was a step in the right direction. He hoped that the agreement would hold and minimise further casualties on all sides.
“But he also underlined that there remains a great deal of concern about Turkey’s military operation in north-east Syria. The prime minister and the president agreed to look for an opportunity to meet alongside President Macron and Chancellor Merkel to discuss the current situation as well as broader issues including counter-terrorism and migration.”
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.@RachelWatson27 tells BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland what cannot be pointed out enough: the key Brexit conundrum for opposition parties is that 3 years on they still struggle to find a position they can all agree on
— Libby Brooks (@libby_brooks) October 20, 2019
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As he emerged from a “short and normal” meeting with EU ambassadors in Brussels this morning, the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, joked with reporters, saying: “You are very patient,” and adding “Me too, me too.”
Barnier said he was taking the next step on ratifying the deal struck with the UK and would update the European parliament tomorrow.
He said the request for a three0month Brexit delay was a matter for Donald Tusk, the EU council’s president, and would be dealt with “in the next few days”.
The extension was not discussed by ambassadors today. Deciding whether to delay Brexit and avoid no deal is a decision for EU leaders. “It’s above my pay grade,” one ambassador told ITV News.
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The EU will wait until the Brexit deal comes up in front of MPs on Tuesday before making decisions on the terms of a further extension.
With MPs likely to vote on a series of amendments to the deal including a confirmatory referendum, Brussels is reluctant to be dragged into the political drama in Westminster.
EU ambassadors agreed this morning that the withdrawal agreement would be sent to the European parliament on Monday. MEPs could vote on it on Thursday if the Commons has given its approval.
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Our country faces a fundamental choice about the future of our economy and the living standards of our people. #Ridge pic.twitter.com/vB0osDgR2o
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 20, 2019
Michael Gove has disclosed that the government’s Operation Yellowhammer contingency plan to handle a no-deal Brexit is being triggered.
The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who is in charge of preparations for a no-deal outcome, said the risk of such a scenario had increased due to MPs forcing the government to ask Brussels for another delay to the Brexit date.
Some Westminster observers viewed the move as an attempt to increase the pressure on MPs to back Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.
Gove told Sky News: “The risk of leaving without a deal has actually increased because we cannot guarantee that the European council will grant an extension. And that is why I will, later today, be chairing a cabinet committee meeting, extraordinarily on a Sunday, in order to ensure that the next stage of our exit preparations and our preparedness for no deal is accelerated.
“It means that we are triggering Operation Yellowhammer. It means that we are preparing to ensure that if no extension is granted, we have done everything possible in order to prepare to leave without a deal.”
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(4/4) The DUP does not seek a second referendum; merely implementation of the first. The people of the United Kingdom were asked whether the UK should leave the EU, not whether Great Britain should leave Northern Ireland behind. Leaving as one nation remains our goal.
— Sammy Wilson MP (@eastantrimmp) October 20, 2019
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(3/4) DUP support for the Letwin amendment was a situation that could have been easily avoided had the PM kept to words he penned to Jean-Claude Juncker just a matter of two weeks ago.
— Sammy Wilson MP (@eastantrimmp) October 20, 2019
(2/4) The DUP wants to “get Brexit done” but it must be a Brexit for the whole of the United Kngdom. Our position has been clear and it has been consistent.
— Sammy Wilson MP (@eastantrimmp) October 20, 2019
The DUP MP Sammy Wilson on supporting the Letwin amendment and the party’s position.
(1/4) The votes of DUP MPs were significant in the passing of the Letwin amendment, but it is far from the first time that DUP votes have been crucial on the issue of Brexit. In nearly half of all votes, it has been DUP MPs who have ensured progress towards our exit from the EU.
— Sammy Wilson MP (@eastantrimmp) October 20, 2019
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Asked if the EU would be open to an extension, Michel Barnier told reporters that the European council president, Donald Tusk, would consider the next stage.
Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, said there had been a “very short and normal meeting” of EU ambassadors this morning to take the next steps to ratify the withdrawal agreement.
“Tomorrow I will await the European parliament,” he said.
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The Mail on Sunday’s Harry Cole on the current state of parliament:
There is a real feel of 2009 to this Parliament. The arrogance of the pre expenses crisis Commons has seeped back in a different form. 2010 election saw 150 stand down and scores lose their seats. Can’t help but feel like a similar clear out is coming down the line.
— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) October 20, 2019
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The Scottish Conservative MP Luke Graham has insisted a no-deal Brexit is what the party has been trying to avoid all along.
“What we saw in the last week is the prime minister actually deliver a deal that delivers on a lot of the objectives that we were trying to achieve as a country,” he told the BBC’s Sunday Politics Scotland programme.
“There’s less discussion about no deal, it’s a discussion about we’ve got a deal, the EU have agreed it, it’s now for us to agree it as well.
“The prime minister has written his letters in accordance with the law and now we’re focusing on getting a deal.
“We’ve got one on the table and it’s time for MPs right across the House of Commons to come together and actually vote for that deal so we can move forward.”
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Sir Oliver Letwin says he is “absolutely behind the government now” and will back Boris Johnson’s deal as amended.
He tabled an amendment on Saturday to prevent an unintended no-deal Brexit.
“I'm behind the government”
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 20, 2019
Sir Oliver Letwin tells #Marr he supports PM’s #Brexit deal and "there will be no more amendments" from himhttps://t.co/NqsJPeXvMD pic.twitter.com/8oUVgg6LMH
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The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has clarified the position on goods moving from Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland.
He told the Andrew Marr Show: “If it’s going into the EU then it ought to be able to take place without any extra frictions or any extra tariffs. If it’s going into other parts of the world then you have to look at the arrangements either the EU has that we accede to, or the new arrangements that the UK puts in place.”
Raab added the EU would not allow the UK to “cherry pick” the same arrangements that had been given to Northern Ireland. “This is only being offered in relation to Northern Ireland because of the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland.”
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Our Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll on the DUP’s position
Full statement in screen grab pic.twitter.com/sujW9PuHrY
— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) October 20, 2019
Some interesting polling in the Sunday Times Scotland this morning found that Scottish voters would prefer the SNP to be pushing for a second EU referendum before another election.
The Panelbase poll taken between before SNP conference last weekend – during which there was a great deal more discussion of a second referendum on independence than on EU membership – found that only 26% supported the election-first stance, while 46% would prefer another referendum.
And among SNP voters, six out of 10 would prefer the priority to be another vote on Brexit.
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The SNP’s Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, has confirmed the party will bring a vote of no confidence in the prime minister, potentially later in the week.
Blackford told the BBC’s Sunday Politics Scotland programme: “We are prepared, once we’ve got that extension in place, to take our responsibilities and move a motion of no confidence and I would be looking for parliamentary time to do that and I would expect everyone else to step up.”
He said Boris Johnson’s behaviour in sending multiple letters to the EU last night proved he was “not treating the office with any respect or dignity”.
Blackford would not be drawn on what court action might follow from the weekend – the SNP MP Joanna Cherry’s ongoing case regarding the PM’s compliance with the Benn act still has court time reserved for this Monday – but he said he would “strongly suspect we may see action taking place at the courts in the coming days”.
He restated that the SNP would support a confirmatory referendum, but added: “If we are going to move forward to people’s vote then we do need a government in place to support that, we need a general election too.”
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Keir Starmer believes the prime minister has taken a “silly approach” to the Benn act and has accused him of being “childlike”.
Following yesterday’s Commons defeat, Boris Johnson called on EU leaders to reject any extension of Britain’s membership of the EU.
Starmer told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show: “The law is very clear. He should have signed one letter in accordance with the law. If we crash out because of what he has done with the letters [...] without a deal, he bears personal responsibility for that.”
He added that Labour would be open to talking to the DUP following their opposition to Johnson’s Brexit deal.
He said: “I would openly invite the DUP to talk to us. If you want to work with us to improve the situation we’re in, our door is open to that discussion.”
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Labour will back amendment calling for referendum on Brexit deal
Labour will back an amendment next week calling for a referendum on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, the shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, has said.
Labour will back an amendment next week calling for a referendum on PM’s #Brexit deal says Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer#Marr https://t.co/NqsJPeXvMD pic.twitter.com/BKVf8q8yDd
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 20, 2019
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The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has insisted a Conservative government would work to protect workers’ rights after Brexit.
He said British businesses and workers need “a set of regulations that is smarter and tailored towards them”.
“Workers are far safer under a Conservative government, given our economic record and the protections we’re putting in place, than they are under this shower of a Labour party,” Raab told the Andrew Marr Show.
Asked why the “level playing field” for workers’ regulation had been taken out of the legally binding withdrawal agreement and put into the non-legally binding political declaration, Raab responded: “We’re basically saying these issues of employment rights, environmental protections, are so important, and the circumstances in the UK are obviously different.
“We actually should make sure politicians are accountable to the voters watching the show. Why would you abdicate responsibility for those issues if they’re so important?”
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Gove insists UK will leave on 31 October
Michael Gove has said the risk of the UK leaving the EU without a deal has grown as a result of yesterday’s vote.
Reasserting the government’s belief that Brexit will definitely happen on October 31, the cabinet minister told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “The risk of leaving without a deal has actually increased because we cannot guarantee that the European council will grant an extension.”
He said he would chair a cabinet meeting later today in order to trigger Operation Yellowhammer, the government’s contingency plan to prepare for a possible no-deal outcome. “We’re preparing to ensure that if no extension is granted that we have done everything possible in order to leave without a deal,” said Gove.
Although the prime minister has already been forced to send a letter requesting a further Brexit delay, Gove insisted that “parliament can’t change the determination” of the government to leave the EU by Halloween.
“We know that the European Union want us to leave, we know that we have a deal that allows us to leave,” he said. “We are going to leave on October 31st. We have the means and ability to do so.”
He said he was optimistic that the government would get enough votes in order to get Boris Johnson’s deal through the Commons – in which case there would be no extension.
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Rudd says she supports Johnson's deal, despite it being worse than May's
The former Tory minister Amber Rudd has said she feels Theresa May’s Brexit deal was better than the one currently being offered by Johnson.
Speaking to Sky’s Sophy Ridge, Rudd, now an independent, said: “I don’t think it’s as good as Theresa May’s deal. I regret the fact that we don’t have effectively a backstop for the whole of the country. Instead it’s only Northern Ireland.
“In terms of the economy, it’s very good for Northern Ireland but it’s less good for the union. I thought that Theresa May’s deal was the right deal. I think this is not as good.”
However, Rudd stressed that she still supported Johnson’s deal. “We have to make sure that we don’t leave with no deal … I want to support it and I will, and I think, not all of us, but most of us former Conservatives, who supported the Letwin amendment will do so as well,” she said.
“I think it’s absolutely right to say we don’t want to leave with no deal but we do want to leave with a deal and this deal from the prime minister is good enough for me.”
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Farage says he would rather a Brexit extension followed by a general election
The Brexit party leader, Nigel Farage, has also been talking to Sophy Ridge this morning. After being mocked on Thursday for his seeming own-goal in defending the law that would delay Brexit, Farage reaffirmed to the Sky presenter that he would rather have a Brexit extension followed by a general election than see Boris Johnson’s deal being passed in the Commons.
“I want to leave on the 31st October with a clean-break Brexit because that’s the only Brexit worth having,” he said.
“I want a general election, so an extension for a few weeks in which we can have a general election is a much better outcome than signing up to a treaty that becomes part of international law that binds us in foreign policy and in many, many other areas.”
He added: “We are going to have to be on a level playing field with the rest of Europe, which means we still haven’t taken back control of our laws. This is not Brexit.”
He described Johnson’s deal as “a new EU treaty”, adding that “all it does is take us on to the next stage of negotiations”.
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Our video team were at the huge People’s Vote march in London yesterday, following some of the estimated one million anti-Brexit protesters as they demanded a fresh referendum. You can watch their work here:
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McDonnell says Johnson behaved 'a bit like a spoilt brat'
John McDonnell has said Boris Johnson has behaved “a bit like a spoilt brat” after the prime minister sent an unsigned letter to the EU asking for a delay, and then a second arguing against it.
Speaking to Sky’s Sophy Ridge on her Sunday show, the shadow chancellor said: “He may well be in contempt of parliament or the courts themselves. Parliament made a decision, he should abide by it, and this idea that you send another letter contradicting the first, I think it flies in the face of what the parliament and the courts have decided.”
He added that another meaningful vote on Johnson’s Brexit deal would be “pointless” until MPs had been able to scrutinise the legislation needed to implement it.
“Until you see the legislation, you don’t know the detail, and as someone said yesterday, the devil is in the detail,” McDonnell said.
While he said an amendment for a second referendum on Brexit would “almost inevitably” come up in parliament over the next few days, McDonnell would not confirm whether Labour would bring one forward, instead emphasising that the party would argue for a general election.
“In a general election we would negotiate a sensible option for Brexit and we’d take that back to the people,” he said.
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Summary
Morning, it’s Amy Walker here. I’ll be kicking off the live blog today.
The Sunday papers worked late into last night reacting to Boris Johnson’s defeat in the Commons yesterday. The Observer carried a picture of the People’s Vote march alongside news of the prime minister’s “humiliating defeat”. The Mirror took a similar approach, declaring that “Blustering Boris” had been “beaten again”.
Meanwhile, others, such as the Sunday Times, painted a picture of a dedicated leader battling the “Brexit wreckers”. The Mail on Sunday described MPs who had helped to delay Johnson’s deal as the “House of Fools” and the Sunday Express asked “Why Won’t They Let Us Leave?”.
As yet another turbulent day gets under way, I’ll be keeping you updated with what ministers and MPs are saying on the Sunday politics shows. First up is Sophy Ridge on Sky News, who is scheduled to interview John McDonnell, Nigel Farage, Amber Rudd and Michael Gove among others.
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