Gary Bennett: Stop blaming the old and the ignorant for Brexit – the statistics just don’t support these myths

The other popular Remain argument – that the result was too close to provide a valid mandate – is also bogus.

May’s Northern Ireland statement: full text

“Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past – what we do want to do is to find a way through this that is going to work and deliver a practical solution for everybody.”

May must take up the Tory torch in Northern Ireland

If the Prime Minister thinks that Ulster is “a special and valued part” of the UK, she should campaign in it. It is, after all, as British as Maidenhead.

WATCH: Will Article 50 definitely be triggered before the next General Election? “Oh yes,” says McLoughlin

The Party Chairman also says the Leave vote means “we have to have control of our borders”.

WATCH: Farage wants progress on Brexit, though ‘no deal is better than the current deal that we’ve got’

He says “yes” when Murnaghan asks if he’ll “start making more of a fuss” if Article 50 hasn’t been triggered by the beginning of 2017.

May has said ‘no veto’ on Brexit, and Jones must respect that

The First Minister’s demands to ‘ratify’ the deal are a sally onto Westminster’s constitutional turf that he would never tolerate if reversed.

Mark Menzies: Let’s seize this new chance to boost our trade abroad

We must tear up the rule book on Whitehall recruitment and to staff the new department with handpicked individuals from across government, industry, finance and law.

May must not lose control to the lobbyists

With so many big issues to tackle, it would be easy to take her eye off the pressure groups and let them get their hooks back into domestic policy.

Voters re-engaged. Brexit endorsed. May resplendent. So ends the best political year that this country has seen for a long time.

The daring leitmotif of her first week in office has been a purge not of Leavers but of a subset of her fellow Remainers.

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Plus, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee tells me the UK certainly won’t be at the back of the queue for a trade deal.

Just as “Brexit means Brexit”, it must also mean a migration target

Our new Prime Minister must sort out Ministerial confusion over what a post-Brexit immigration policy looks like.

Nic Conner: I’m a Brexiteer. I doubted May. I was wrong. It’s time to admit that our new Prime Minister is now one of us.

Her actions demonstrate that she truly understands the concerns of ordinary people and the reasons why they voted to leave the EU.

Henry Hill: Jones tries to lay down Brexit ‘red lines’ to the Prime Minister

Also: GMB claim SNP demand for Trident removal is election stunt; Cairns sets out conditions for UK Tata bailout, Stormont divisions over EU; and more.

Announcing new trade and Brexit departments was the easy bit – the hard work starts now

The carve-up of powers and staff between Johnson, Davis and Fox will be far from simple.

How can new trade deals work best?

Some answers from a seminar at Policy Exchange.