WATCH: Barclay refuses to rule out a leadership bid

“I would say to my colleagues: focus on the day job. Concentrate on what is before us, on what we promised to the public. Ensure that we leave.”

Appointments 2) Cleverly joins the Department for Exiting the European Union

He takes over the role vacated by Heaton-Harris, who resigned yesterday over Theresa May’s decision to reach out to Jeremy Corbyn.

Heaton-Harris resigns as No Deal Minister: “I simply cannot support any further extension to Article 50”

He praises the work done by civil servants to prepare for exit without a deal – and suggests the Prime Minister has not been fully informed of their progress.

The Government is bluffing. Why I and many others will vote against the Withdrawal Agreement later today.

The EU won’t grant us a long extension for fear of what European elections here would produce. If we hold our nerve, the UK will Brexit on WTO terms in April.

The first department to need boosting post-March. The Treasury? Business? Transport? No: Northern Ireland.

The challenge to “our precious union” will be as much constitutional as economic – Deal, No Brexit…or No Deal especially.

Brexit, the backstop, Anglo-Irish relations – and learning from Burke

We need a new strategic partnership with Ireland. At the moment, that end seems endlessly remote.

WATCH: Barclay – “The vote is going ahead, and that’s because it’s a good deal”

The Brexit Secretary claims that the Withdrawal Agreement balances controlling money and immigration with keeping trade flowing.

Hammond, Penrose, and Kwarteng join the Government as May circles the wagons

The Prime Minister has eschewed the chance to bind waverers with patronage in favour of promoting able loyalists who won’t make trouble.

Stewart Jackson: Mendacity, duplicity, subterfuge and misjudgement. How I saw an establishment coup wreck a clean Brexit.

Number Ten has been desperate from the start that we must remain in the Customs Union – and endure a kind of semi-skimmed faux Brexit.

James Arnell: No Deal 4) An outward-looking, global UK

We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.

WATCH: Whittingdale to Robbins. You shafted Davis’ White Paper, didn’t you?

The DexEU select commitee member and former Culture Secretary cites Stewart Jackson’s interview with this site.

Interview: Stewart Jackson, Davis’ former SpAd, accuses Downing Street of “constitutional impropriety”

He claims that there was a conspiracy by officials in Number Ten’s Europe Unit to water down Brexit.

Nicky Morgan: Once again, we split over Europe. Once again, we undermine our leader. We Conservatives are set to repeat the same failed cycle. Will we never learn?

We are re-proving that ‘we learn from history that we do not learn from history’.

May’s big new problem is the loss of trust which she has inflicted upon herself

Her strategy now relies on asking people to believe that she will not buckle any further – just at the very moment she has caused many to doubt her.

May’s Brexit plan raises UKIP from the dead

And, late in the day, the Prime Minister bows to our advice, and rushes on to Marr, today, to make the case for her new proposals.