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PM ‘to suspend parliament again next week’ as EU shoots down his Brexit plan before it is announced

Boris Johnson’s plan for a Brexit deal will be delivered to Brussels on Wednesday with a message that there will be no delay beyond the 31 October deadline.

As EU officials criticise Mr Johnson’s proposed customs checks in Ireland, the PM will use his Tory conference speech today to say “we must” get Brexit done because voters feel they’re being “taken for fools”.

It comes as reports emerged of a government plan to prorogue parliament again next week, while Donald Trump is said to have contacted Mr Johnson to “ask for help” with the Mueller probe.

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According to a report in The Times, the US president contacted Boris Johnson to “ask for help” on 26 July (only a couple of days after Johnson entered No 10), as he looked for ways to discredit the Mueller probe.

Trump’s attorney general William Barr reportedly brought up the Mueller investigation in his meeting with British intelligence officials a few days later. No 10 officials have refused to comment.

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