DOMINIC LAWSON: Any Brexit plan that Peter Mandelson and Jacob Rees-Mogg BOTH think is hopeless must be an absolute stinker!

No Briton I know has better contacts in Brussels than Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, who has been given medals of appreciation from such EU nations as France, Italy and Poland.

And this is what he has been told: 'The EU will reject Theresa May's proposals. It views her complex customs proposals as unworkable and believes that the four freedoms of the single market are indivisible. The EU will be grateful that May has finally imposed discipline on her Cabinet and come up with a plan. That will earn her some goodwill and a 'no, but', rather than a plain 'no'.

'But if May wants a deal, her red lines will have to shift. She has already agreed to be a rule taker and accepted a role for the European Court of Justice. She will also have to accept some sort of customs union, payments to the EU and something close to free movement of labour.'