Boris Johnson will today put Britain on an election footing by warning Brussels that he will slash more than £30bn from the EU divorce bill in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
His tough stance, intended to win over Brexit Party supporters, comes as the prime minister’s team are working on a populist emergency budget in October, in which fuel duty will be cut for the first time in eight years, paving the way for a general election the same month.
The prospects of a Conservative majority grew last night when a YouGov poll for this newspaper put the Tories on 33%, 12 points clear of Labour — their largest lead with that pollster since the 2017 general election. The survey also put the Liberal