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Rachel Johnson reveals plans to stand as European elections candidate for Change UK and takes swipe at brother Boris JOE MURPHY     NICHOLAS CECIL Click to follow  The Evening Standard Sibling rivalry: Rachel and Boris Johnson, who support opposite sides of the Brexit debate  ( Dave Benett ) I  would  like to receive lunchtime headlines Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts, by email Rachel Johnson , sister of Boris, today revealed she is standing as a European election candidate — and took a swipe at her Brexiteer brother. Talking exclusively to the Evening Standard, the campaigning journalist said she will stand in the South West region for Change UK, the pro-Remain party set up by The Independent Group of MPs. She said she was taking a stand against a  Brexit  that would deny young people the freedoms that Brexiteers themselves enjoyed to live and work in the European Union. Ms Johnson said...

Brexit is finished. A Leave constituency just voted in a Remain MP Only a handful of lunatics still want Brexit - it's game over, gammons We had a vote. Leave has lost. Get over it. "Oh bloody hell, it's us next isn't it"   (Image: Getty) The fact a 56%-Leave constituency just chose a Remain campaigner who  wants a people's vote  to be its MP is delicious. But joy must be tempered by the fact that, to hardline Brexit wingnuts, 'irony' could refer to broccoli, the Earth's core, or something the metropolitan elite uses as a weapon. The turnout was low. The majority was cut. UKIP put on 8%. And besides, if you stuck a red rosette on a house brick it could get elected in Wales, they'll say. But there's more at work in the by-election of Ruth Jones than the Brexit campaigners want you to notice. Newport is a former steel town and its docks were used to export coal. It has needed decades of regeneration. The accepted opinion ...

EU says it would not open talks with UK after no-deal Brexit until it agrees to divorce bill and Irish backstop Jon Stone Brussels The  EU  would refuse to open trade talks with Britain after a no-deal  Brexit  until the UK decided to sign up to the main elements of the withdrawal agreement anyway, the European Commission has said. Speaking in the  European parliament  on Wednesday,  Jean-Claude Juncker  said the Irish border, citizens’ rights and the divorce bill would need to be agreed before any other negotiations could begin. He also warned that no further short Article 50 extension would be possible, and that the UK would have to commit to European parliament elections and a longer delay if it wanted to put back its deadline again. The announcement that the EU would refuse to back down after a no-deal pours cold water on Brexiteer hopes that the UK could get a better deal by refusing to pay the unp...

EU slaps down Jacob Rees-Mogg for suggesting UK should deliberately cause chaos if Brexit is delayed 'This gentleman is not our interlocutor,' spokesperson says Brussels has slapped down  Jacob-Rees Mogg  after the leading Brexiteer suggested the UK should wilfully cause chaos at the EU institutions if  Brexit  was delayed. A spokesperson for the European Commission suggested that the Tory MP was essentially irrelevant and not involved in negotiations. “This gentleman is not our interlocutor and I would say then that the principle of sincere cooperation does apply, as prime minister May herself makes clear in her letter,” the spokesperson told reporters in Brussels. “I would also say that this is a hypothetical question because it supposes, or presupposed an extension, which is yet to be seen by our leaders.” Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator, also piled in. Seizing on Mr Mogg’s comments, he said: “For those in th...