Brexit: EU still 'unconvinced' by your new backstop plan, Donald Tusk tells Boris Johnson – live news

Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Boris Johnson's statement to MPs about his Brexit plan for a replacement to the backstop

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• Varadkar on Dublin's objections to UK plan - Press conference summary
• PM claims his plan would not require any new customs infrastructure
• Afternoon summary

5.45pm BST

I updated @Europarl_EN & EU27 on #UK's proposals. EU wants a Withdrawal Agreement w/ workable and effective solutions that create legal and practical certainty now. We owe this to peace & stability on the island of Ireland. We must protect consumers & businesses in the EU market.

PM has twice delayed coming before select committees chairs to answer detailed questions in public but promised to come "at the earliest opportunity" His offer of 24th Oct is not good enough, the proposals need detailed scrutiny before key decisions made https://t.co/wJ7EgSK6ur

Unreasonable delay effectively smothers accountability & allows PM to continue to bat off single questions in the Commons with meaningless non-answers. If the proposals are any good, PM should be prepared to respond in detail at @CommonsLiaison not run from scrutiny

5.17pm BST

My colleagues at the Guardian archives have been looking at what was on the front page of the paper 50 years ago today. And, you've guessed it, it was the UK's relationship with Europe. Only in those days the story was all about Brenter.

Here is a clean copy of the Guardian splash on 3 October 1963. It starts:

Serious negotiations between Britain and the Common Market seemed measurably nearer last night after a sequence of events in Bonn, Brussels, and Brighton.

Related: From the archive: Europe ready for talks on British entry - 3 October 1969