Interview: The double-hatted Suella Fernandes – both a member of the Government and a pro-Leave group leader

She points to the opportunities to imitate New Zealand agriculture, and to crack down on big businesses which evade tax.

The future may or may not be bright. But either way, the future’s Brexit.

For all the chatter about the Customs Union, leaving the EU in full is still on course. But May’s bungled election has raised the chances of a disorderly outcome.

DExEU alert klaxon

There are only five days to go until the start of the Brexit negotiations. May cannot afford to make a reshuffle mess of a department from which she has now lost two Ministers.

Introducing a week-long series on what WTO would mean

The absence of tariffs comes last, not first. They are the end-point of a successful negotiation, not its starting-point. They are the icing on the cake.

The Brexit negotiation. If May wants a good deal, she must be prepared to walk away – and mean it

Such a deal would, on balance, be better than Most Favoured Nation Status. But MFN would be better than a bad deal – and giving up on regaining control of our borders.

Should Britain leave the customs union?

The arguments are more finely balanced than in the case of the Single Market, but maintaining the present arrangement would blunt the point of Brexit.

Welcome, Christopher Howarth and James Frayne

Two new ConHome columns begin tomorrow.

Steve Hilton – moderniser for Brexit

Whatever one’s view of Cameron’s former head of strategy, he cannot simply be written off as some crusty reactionary.

Liam Fox: Cameron’s deal. Not the mouse that roared but the lion that whimpered

It is not a “renegotiation” at all, since there is no treaty reform – a point President Hollande was quick to make yesterday.

Christopher Howarth: If we opt back into the European Arrest Warrant, we will cede more authority to the ECJ

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Christopher Howarth: Why the UK should push hard for EU services liberalisation. And what to do if it doesn’t get it.

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From Christopher Howarth of Open Europe: Cameron is risking his reputation with his hints of an EU bill

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Christopher Howarth: The Cyprus deal. Unjust. Unfair. State robbery. But the Euro will live to see another day

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Christopher Howarth: David Cameron’s EU Budget deal is a success – but it should not be oversold

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Christopher Howarth: Two Unions, two borders, two islands – why the future of the EU and UK places the British Isles at a decision point

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