WATCH: “We will be ready” for no deal if needs be, says Davis

The Brexit Secretary says it is not his desired outcome, but it is his duty to prepare for it just in case.

Hammond plumbs a record depth in our Cabinet League Table

It’s personal low in the run-up to the Budget. Meanwhile, Gove gets within a single point of beating Davidson for the top spot.

Our survey. It’s a thumbs-down from Party members to all the main candidates to succeed May

“None of the above” has the best part of a quarter of the vote. In the surveys since the election, it has successively come first, first, second, second – and now first again.

Peter Bould: A reshuffle may be coming – and the Cabinet needs more northern MPs

You would have to go back more than 20 years to find a time when fewer secretaries of state held northern constituencies. 

Peter Marshall: We have to ask the question. Does the EU really want a deal?

I can say, with hand on humble heart, that I have never seen, or even heard of, a document so unconstructively negative as the Guidelines.

Syed Kamall: Why time pressure is cutting both ways in the Brexit talks – with pressure on the EU as well as the UK

Already, the EU is demanding discussion of certain trade matters which, according to its repeated statements, should not be brought up until the next phase of talks.

Henry Newman: Brexit – and the unresolved Cabinet row that has the power to force resignations

The key question is not whether we can diverge, but whether we can do so without asking the EU first and obtaining their prior agreement.

WATCH: Davis’s Conference speech

“Now that we are leaving the European Union. It allows us to be more international, not less. It requires us to face the world, not looking away or glancing back, but with confidence and determination about the future we will build.”

Facing the future: Davis’s speech in full

“Of course sometimes the exchanges are tough, but that is to be expected…because the prizes for success are enormous. As are the consequences of failure.”

Johnson leads our Next Tory Leader category…but makes no progress in our Cabinet League Table. The reason? He divides opinion.

Davis, Gove, and Fallon make up the top three again, but satisfaction levels overall are low. And Davidson is out-polling every Cabinet member.

Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. May tops it. Davis is second. And Davidson third.

Who would have predicted that Gavin Barwell, having lost his seat and ministerial position, would climb 63 places to number seven?

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Sun, sand, sea and socialism – my day at Corbyn’s Brighton conference

There were no Momentum mugs left. “Everything we had has gone ‘just like that’. Do keep checking the website, though”.

Iain Duncan Smith: Brexit. Why the Government must prepare for no deal now.

The arrogant behaviour of the EU so far, bordering on the deliberately offensive, is a bluff that we need to call.

WATCH: Davis opens the new round of Brexit talks – “There are no excuses for standing in the way of progress”

The Brexit Secretary points to the Government’s “concrete proposals”, and puts the ball back into the EU’s court.

James Arnell: The Government must not dither away our Brexit negotiating position

Pro-Leave MPs must ensure that ministers and the civil service prepare a credible plan for ‘no deal’ and place strict limits on any transition.