Henry Newman: The more we look back to the referendum, and re-fight its battles, the less we get ready for the future

And most EU member states haven’t spent nearly enough time really thinking what the future relationship between the UK and EU should look like, either.

WATCH: Clarke – ‘There is no technology that allows an open border with different customs’

The former Chancellor turns Duncan Smith’s point around to argue that inventing and implementing a new solution to the Irish border won’t work.

WATCH: Duncan Smith – Implementing customs partnership would be ‘a nightmare’

The architect of Universal Credit is deeply sceptical that the Government could design and implement a completely new system in time.

Nicky Morgan: For too long, the Party has appeased Brexiteer obsessives. It’s time for One Nation Tories to fight back.

The ‘bins and council tax’ message which resonated in the local elections needs to be turned into a ‘public services, security and cost of living’ message nationally.

Henry Newman: No more delays, Prime Minister – it’s time to make a decision on customs

There are two options under consideration. One in particular, the partnership model, is unworkable and unacceptable. It should be put out of its misery.

Bernard Jenkin: The ‘new customs partnership’ idea should be dead in the water – it is the opposite of taking back control

It would leave EU judges in authority, obstruct new trading opportunities, and compel us to continue as a major financial contributor to Brussels. It is a futile distraction.

Victoria Hewson: How we should prepare to leave the Customs Union

These steps will improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the UK’s international trade, whatever the outcome of the Article 50 negotiations.

Bernard Jenkin: Why the Government’s customs partnership proposal won’t work

Those continuing the Remain campaign represent a minority. The Prime Minister understands that the people have spoken, and that now there is no turning back.

Simon Clarke: Teesside is experiencing an industrial renaissance – with Conservative optimism driving out Labour gloom

The first in a three-part ConHome mini-series on the Tory revival in the area since the Mayoral election of last May.

‘Partial’ customs union means paying a high price to be stuck in EU limbo

But a vote on some form of customs union is coming. Might it become a confidence issue?

Customs and practice

It would make no sense to spurn taking control of our trade policy and leave it with the EU – in which we will no longer have a say.

WATCH: Houchen urges the UK to “capitalise on the opportunity” of Brexit to develop freeports

The Tees Valley mayor says his area was “left behind in the Blair and Brown years”, and this is a chance to rebalance the economy.

Hammond’s indiscipline shows why May should have moved him – and why she must stop dithering over Brexit

If making a final decision seemed too risky for the Prime Minister, her deliberate indecision has now proved even more dangerous.

Charlie Elphicke: Keeping order at the border – to prepare for a smooth Brexit

Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.

Kieran Mullan: A good deal is within our grasp – including on the Northern Irish border

For political reasons some ignore practical solutions and pretend the current EU arrangements are perfect. Such obstructionism helps no-one.