A customs union 2) Simon Clarke – As a convinced Brexiteer, and an optimist about Britain, I see that joining one would lock us into decline

We shouldn’t be glued as a vassal state to a declining European market.

WATCH: Brexit. We need to deliver on our manifesto commitments and guarantee prosperity, says Walker

A surviving DexEU Minister from David Davis’ team says that he’s glad to hear that Rees-Mogg will be supporting the Customs Bill.

May’s new Brexit plan. There is an alternative – from within the Government itself.

We don’t claim that the EU would accept it – but neither will the Commission nor the 27 necessarily accept the Prime Minister’s new plan.

Chloe Westley: You think the LibDems were punished over tuition fees? That’s nothing compared to the fate that now stalks the Tories over Brexit.

They risk a reputation of betraying the largest vote in British history.

WATCH: Starmer rejects May’s customs plan as a “bureaucratic nightmare” – and says Labour wants a customs union

“As for Chequers, I’m afraid it’s got ‘fudge’ written all over it.” The Prime Minister has gone to “extraordinary lengths” to avoid a union.

Harmonisation on goods. Flexibility for services. UK management of EU tariffs in Britain. Government Brexit Chequers proposal. Full text.

Plus “due regard paid to EU case law in areas where the UK continues to apply a common rulebook”.

Brexit. What May should do next. Replace Robbins with Davis – and prepare for No Deal.

Since she might not get an acceptable agreement, or indeed any at all, the Government must strain to get Ready for Day One, not Ready for Day 730.

Chris Walker: Supercharged Free Ports, the visionary way to boost the north of England’s economy

In a balanced economy, the north would produce around £70 billion more. Here is one way to help close that gap.

WATCH: Raab is “confident that customs arrangements will be in place” by 2021

“The one thing that is uncertain until we go into the June summit and engage with the EU is precisely what the contours of the trade deal will look like.”

The EU Withdrawal Bill. Let’s get on with it.

It’s about neither the principle nor the form of Brexit. Its purpose is to make leaving orderly. MPs should effect it this week.

Stephen Booth: Our Brexit proposal. Integrate for goods, diverge for services.

This type of relationship would reflect the existing pattern of UK-EU trade. It is a compromise that should win support amongst pragmatists.

Lord Ashcroft: My Republic of Ireland focus groups on Brexit. They both agree that the UK is making a terrible mistake.

“Two years later no-one knows what they want, even the Tory party. Theresa May says one thing and Boris Johnson says another.”

Lord Ashcroft: Brexit, border polls and customs checks – my new focus groups in Northern Ireland

Understandably, the unionists and republicans we interviewed have very different views on the questions facing the Province.

Let’s leave the EU first and get a better Brexit later. What some Leave supporters are saying.

They argue that even if May doesn’t deliver a clean outcome, the priority must be to ensure that the Article 50 timetable is met.

A lesson from Wednesday evening in the Commons. May might win a Customs Union vote after all.

So much of the Government’s strategy is predicated on the belief that this is impossible. But what if that’s wrong?