The PM has written in the Daily Telegraph to defend his aim to alter the Brexit divorce deal, accusing the European Union of threatening to impose a food “blockade” in the Irish Sea. Mr Johnson said Tory rebel MPs must get into line, arguing that he is trying to protect Britain from handing Brussels the “power to carve up our country”. Also on the front page is a report that Michael Gove and Matt Hancock were the only two Cabinet ministers to argue for the new six people rule on social gatherings, with other senior ministers favouring upping the limit to eight.