Andrew Kennedy: This may be our last chance to group Associations together to win the victories we need
It is possible that the Party may end this new year in a weaker position than before the 2015 election if CCHQ doesn’t act quickly.
No, no, no: May’s Maggie’s moment. No ECJ. No Single Market. No Customs Union. What her Europe speech this week will say.
She must prepare the political way for popularising MFN status if her programme is rejected by the other side of the table.
Phil Taylor: Why we mustn’t have a National Care Service
It would simply replicate all the worst faults of the NHS and create a new set of problems.
Daniel Kawczynski: Brexit. Our European allies didn’t back us up in the past, so May can’t put her faith in them now
The overwhelming evidence, after years of trying, is that the political will and courage simply is not there.
In Brussels, a clash is coming between dogma and pragmatism
We shouldn’t take the ideological pronouncements of the Commission as being set in stone. The member states may yet have their say.
Iain Dale: The BBC’s flagrant bias for Obama and against Trump
Plus: Off I go to Washington for the inauguration. Time to strip Southern of its franchise. And: what happened when I had breakfast with Andrew Pierce.
Christian Guy: It will be a disaster if May drops Cameron’s life chances plan
It would be wrong to assume you can simply sweep reducing poverty into a wider social mobility plan: they are not the same.
We need a strong American president. We may be getting a weak one.
Trump has already fallen out with parts of the intelligence and security services – and risks a rift over Russia with his own party too.
Garvan Walshe: Leaving the Single Market will be a fundamental shock to British business
The Prime Minister’s priorities entail a hard Brexit, and are more important to her than economic stability.
Oliver Norgrove: May must not be allowed to use Brexit as cover to infringe on our liberties
Few noticed the Investigatory Powers Bill becoming law because all eyes are on the process of leaving the EU.
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.
Charlie Elphicke: How to fund and gain better border control post-Brexit. I propose a visa waiver system.
It should raise some £250 million a year – enough to increase the UK’s borders budget by 50 per cent.
Henry Hill: Strange but true – Unionists may come to miss McGuinness
Also: Labour slumps to lowest levels in Welsh polls since last days of Brown’s premiership; and Scottish Tories accuse SNP of a ‘wasted decade’.
Alex Morton: May needs an election soon and a big win, which pledging an English Parliament can deliver her
The Labour Party created an asymmetrical and unfair constitutional settlement. Brexit will exacerbate it.
Corbyn will find it hard to cope in Copeland, and risks humiliation
The traditional Labour voters in this Cumbrian by-election seem to respect May more than they respect their own leader.