Roderick Crawford: Brexit and trade. What we are and aren’t committed to in order to help bring about a level playing field

The Political Declaration approves non-regression but not dynamic alignment – elements of which the EU has backed off from.

Roderick Crawford: The EU has an obligation to improve the flawed Northern Ireland Protocol. And isn’t meeting it.

In practice, a workable protocol requires arrangements that reflect its wider aims — including respect for the territorial integrity of the UK.

Roderick Crawford: Brexit is the beginning of a journey to transform Britain

As a general set of principles for the UK global aims, we would do well to turn for inspiration and leadership to Churchill and Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter.

Roderick Crawford: Almost halfway through July, there is still no sign that a trade deal with the EU is possible – never mind probable.

For many, WTO terms are good enough for trade and the compromises required for a deal are politically unacceptable.

Roderick Crawford: We have interests in the rest of Europe, but must be free to run our own foreign policy

Given the EU’s risk levels, its lack of investment in NATO and its poor relations with its neighbours, it is hardly an attractive partner; more of a liability.

Roderick Crawford: The EU must drop its maximalist approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol

From the start, the trade bloc has not fully understood the Belfast Agreement and has been slow to see that it undermined many of its positions.

Roderick Crawford: There can be no role for the European Court in policing an EU trade agreement

Agreeing underlying principles, not getting an extension, is the key to reaching an agreement.

Roderick Crawford: Brexit and trade. Here’s a grand bargain to open the way to a final agreement.

Specific governance arrangements can be established in individual areas, and an agreement should sit outside the overarching institutional framework.

Roderick Crawford: It’s time to recast the Brexit trade negotiation – and for Johnson to travel to Brussels

Essentially, the EU seems to want a controlled partnership, not a partnership that works because there are shared values and common interests.

Roderick Crawford: The UK/EU negotiation. How the impasse on state aid arose and how it can be ended.

It is clear from the Declaration that the Council’s directives for negotiating the future relationship with the UK have departed substantially from it.

Roderick Crawford: To beat this virus, the NHS needs to learn from the British Army

This is not about NHS on the cheap; the Army has a long history of having to upscale rapidly, and should be used in these troublesome times.

Roderick Crawford: The Government should move now to utilise hotel beds

The 200,000 hotel rooms run by the main hotel chains alone in the UK provide sufficient additional capacity to draw upon both locally and nationally.

Roderick Crawford: Will you really trust Corbyn to control what you can see and do on your mobile and laptop?

Labour’s broadband policy is not about investment in infrastructure, but about a revolution in content to shape our collective political culture.

Roderick Crawford: Why the DUP is wrong about the new Brexit deal

The principle of consent was the cornerstone of the Good Friday Agreement, and it is the cornerstone of this new deal.