May to force decision on trade

Even if the PM manages to unite her Cabinet, will the EU agree to her deal? Emily Hohler reports.

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A Cabinet lock-in at Chequers on Friday 6 July, dubbed the "body-bag summit", is designed to "force a decision" on the UK's post-Brexit trade policy, says Andrew Atkinson on Bloomberg. "Back the prime minister or resign" is the option reportedly facing ministers. Theresa May's new plan for Britain's future relationship with the EU is top secret, says the Financial Times, with even David Davis, the Brexit secretary, being kept in the dark.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.