David Jones: Vaping – a quick win for Brexit

Divergence from the EU on vaping and smokefree products is a quick win from leaving the EU that will improve public health.

Iain Dale: People will die as a result of the EU’s Covid games. But don’t expect the media to criticise Saint Macron.

The British government has been commendably muted on the behaviour of von der Leyen and other politicians.

Garvan Walshe: The Integrated Review’s tilt to Asia could leave us vulnerable closer to home – and Putin

The impulse of Brexit is to prove Britain’s openness by striking out, but this tilt increases our security dependence on Europe.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Cummings explains why it is safer to be a gambler than a bureaucrat

In order to remain world-leading in science, the PM’s former adviser explained, it is necessary to take risks and cut out bureaucracy.

The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine. A run down of the developments across Europe as extreme caution takes hold.

The suspension of the vaccine will lead to more problems in areas that are already struggling with their roll outs.

Grant Shapps: Our plan to supercharge the Union’s transport links can help make us Europe’s biggest economy by 2050

Our Union Connectivity Review will favour routes that serve this aim – be they the A75, the A55 in north Wales or the air corridors to Northern Ireland.

James Sunderland: The Integrated Review. To project power in the world, we musn’t skimp on support arms and force protection

And if that projection is to be effective, we will need to invest in our operating bases – and not just at traditional sites.

If the EU is as committed to the Belfast Agreement as it claims to be, here’s what it will do, sooner or later

If strict East-West checks and North-South checks are problematic, the only solution left standing is to minimise the former by rewriting the Protocol.

Stephen Booth: Opportunities for an agile, creative Britain from Brexit – as spelt out by former Remainers

Lidington writes that “the UK has the potential to be world-leading in areas such as fintech, life sciences, artificial intelligence and genetic modification”.

Iain Dale: The EU has no interest in Northern Ireland’s future prosperity. It just sees it as a mechanism to exert its power.

Plus: Say what you like about Trump, but he had a better slogan than Clinton. And: Sunak’s budget was disappointing.

Henry Hill: Frost’s appointment shows the Government is not resigned to the Northern Ireland Protocol

His extension of grace periods only makes sense as part of a strategy aimed at securing meaningful concessions to assuage unionist concerns.

Shanker Singham: Breaking the Gordian knot of agricultural trade negotiations. How the TAC has risen to the challenge.

The commission has come up with an an innovative proposal for import policy.

WATCH: Truss discusses ‘Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world’

The International Trade Secretary joined the panel for a live event with Anand Menon, Katy Balls and Andy Burwell, chaired by Paul Goodman.

Anand Menon: What does Global Britain mean in practice, and when will the Government deliver it?

It will need to make hard choices and to show evidence of a clarity and long-term vision that, to date, have been rather notable by their absence.

Hussein Kassim: Britain faces limited opportunites to diverge from the EU after Brexit

A new report reveals how difficult – and costly it – it may be to chart a separate course from our nearest and most important trading partner.