PM DOES A DEAL

of the party membership. But there has been talk among Labour MPs this week of a challenge to Mr Corbyn, with Rebecca Long-Bailey, 40, floated as a potential leader. But talk is cheap, and Labour MPs would need to act before any early election is called if they want to have a chance.

For despite the Prime Minister’s awkward private life, mutiny in his own party over Brexit and a major loss in the court that found he had lied to the Queen when he asked her to suspend parliament, Mr Johnson is still leading in 11 published opinion polls with a margin of between 3 and 15 per cent in the UK’s first-past-thepost system. In Shakespeare’s The Com

edy of Errors, two sets of twins are separated in a shipwreck.

One set of twins later goes to find the other, causing a series of incidents of mistaken identity. But they are not allowed to enter the land where they are searching for their respective twin and have to raise a ransom of 1000 marks by sundown or face death.

Today, Mr Johnson will find out whether he managed to squirrel away enough goodwill to pay his own ransom to get a deal on Brexit.

He said in his leadership election campaign that “do or die” Britain would leave the EU on October 31. We will find out tonight if Mr Johnson has proved the doubters wrong. DIVIDED: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the European Union in Brussels, where he struck a deal for Brexit. Next he needs to convince British MPs to vote for it, with the nation divided, left.