Craig Mackinlay & Andrea Jenkyns: The first step in a new relationship with our continental neighbours – and with the wider world
Two senior ERG officers write that the Agreement excludes the jurisdiction in the UK of the European Court of Justice.
Stanley Johnson: Next year’s climate change conference should take its lead on carbon pricing from this Agreement
The deal’s recognition of the part to be played by this measure is a tremendously important move forward in the battle against climate change.
Our Cabinet League Table feels the Brexit Trade Deal Bounce
Johnson is up to ninth from fifth from bottom, Gove jumps up to near the top quarter, Hancock is clearer from the relegation zone – and Truss stays top.
Stephen Booth: This Agreement delivers both the UK and the EU’s main objectives. It gives us freedom – which comes at a price.
The first of a new series of pieces by Policy Exchange for ConservativeHome looking at the various issues that arise from the Brexit trade deal.
David Lidington: We have left the EU and there is no turning back. Here’s what our new relationship with Europe should look like.
Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.
A key to Johnson’s historic triumph over Europe has been always to take the least risky option
And a measure of his achievement to date is the channelling of a new patriotic populism into an established political vehicle.
David Davis: Parliament needs more time to scrutinise this Agreement than the single day it has been given
We do not want find ourselves in an equally difficult bind as the Swiss did over migration over some unforeseeable problem in the future.
Simon Richards: Almost 15 years ago, I helped to set up Better Off Out. This deal isn’t perfect – but it delivers what we campaigned for.
The agreement that Johnson has obtained rights the wrongs inflicted by Major and a succession of Europhile Prime Ministers.
Our survey. Tory activists give Johnson’s Brexit Trade Deal an early thumbs-up.
Three in five said it was a win for the UK, with one in three reserving judgement – and under one in ten declaring it a win for the EU.
Andrew Green: What’s the point of taking back control of immigration if we don’t reduce it?
Some seven million jobs in the UK will be opened to new or increased competition by migrant workers.
The Conservative MPs who misread Johnson, were willing to end his career over Brexit – and ended their own instead
This is not the first time that the Prime Minister has been misread by opponents who deluded themselves into believing he was set on No Deal.
The Christmas Eve Agreement
Johnson should be praised for getting a deal at all – once again. But as matters stand, MPs won’t be able properly to consider it.
The seasonal story has become clogged with repulsive sentimentality and compulsory jollity
There is much to be said for a simpler Christmas, at which we are grateful for what we are given, regardless of how modest it may be.
If the Lords is to be representative of the Commons, LibDem peers should be culled
Lord Fowler has identified the right problem in the wake of yesterday’s appointments but advanced the wrong solution.
Chris Skidmore: It’s freedom that will make Britain a global science superpower – not Whitehall micro-management
In spite of Cummings’ departure, DARPA should remain a manifesto priority: we need its approach to risk – and indeed failure.