Brexit: Boris Johnson to offer EU 'far-reaching' alternative backstop plan - as it happened

Rolling coverage of the day's political developments, including reaction to leaked UK plans for the Irish border, the PM's interviews and Priti Patel's speech to Tory party conference

• PM to offer EU 'constructive' alternative backstop plan
• Some border checks on goods needed post-Brexit, says PM
• Priti Patel speech - verdict

8.43pm BST

That's it from us this evening. Thanks for reading and commenting. Here's a summary of the day's main events:

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8.26pm BST

Boris Johnson has arrived at a DUP reception at the Tory party conference, alongside the party's leader, Arlene Foster.

Boris Johnson has arrived at DUP reception to chants of Boris, Boris and heckles of "no surrender"

Nigel Dodds of DUP praises Boris Johnson for "clarity and vision" over Brexit. "We must get a better deal out of the EU... and we believe we can get such a deal"

Arlene Foster, DUP leader, says people are "sick, sore and tired" of Brexit and want to see an agreement

Arlene: people want to get a Brexit deal done. No deal is not a final destination but i know not everyone in this room will agree with us but in terms of Northern Ireland we want to focus on a deal pic.twitter.com/TpmSfMssJr

Johnson says deal not easy but some progress and should become clear in next few days whether it can be done

Johnson says he wants to put Jeremy Corbyn into a "figurative rocket" and "send him into orbit where he belongs"