Never mind Hunt. Move over, Hancock. Meet Geoffrey Cox – the most significant appointment of the reshuffle.

As the meaning of legal texts moves centre-stage, Brexit-wise, May sends for a top QC to champion her case – and pore the documents.

If Brexiteering Ministers don’t hang together, they will all hang separately.

Number 10’s plan was summarised in the statement released after Chequers. The Ministers’ was contained in DexEU’s draft of the White Paper.

Henry Newman: May’s strategy is in crisis – continuing to exclude the Brexit Secretary from the process will only make that worse

Davis was not alone in being kept in the dark – ministers in various departments have been wrongly left out of Brexit planning done by their own civil servants.

WATCH: “Childish briefings against colleagues.” Baker slams Number Ten’s spinners.

He accuses them of making up claims about promotions being dangled – “as if any of us can be bribed”.

Raab, Davis’s former Chief of Staff, becomes the new Brexit Secretary

No clearer signal could be sent that the Haltemprice and Howden MP is out on his own. But the promotion will lose Raab some friends even as it delivers a new gain in status.

LISTEN: Davis – “My fear is that they’ll take what we’ve offered already and then demand some more. I fear that this is just the start.”

He explains that as Brexit Secretary he couldn’t take responsibility for advancing a new policy in which he didn’t believe.

Davis resigns. My part in his downfall.

The question this morning is whether Johnson, who fundamentally disagrees with May’s new Brexit policy no less, will also go – along with other Cabinet dissenters.

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: Cleverly laughs off Johnson’s criticism of May’s proposals

“My understanding is that this was a light-hearted jokey remark of the kind for which Boris is famous.”

WATCH: Corbyn’s line – “I’ve got a feeling the whole thing might start to unravel in the next few days.”

The Labour leader plays it cautious – saying that “we don’t know exactly what this plan means yet”.

WATCH: “Freedom of movement will end next year when we leave the EU”, says Lewis

“Javid is anxious to have a modern new immigration system that delivers for this country – and that’s a separate issue.”

WATCH: There are “a lot of questions”…”a lot of unhappiness”…”a great deal of concern”. Cash on May’s plan.

The veteran Brexiteer also says that his colleagues will conduct their own analysis of the forthcoming White Paper and put it to the Cabinet.

WATCH: No direct ECJ jurisdiction. No free movement. Out of CAP & the CFP. Out of home and foreign affairs pillars. Gove defends the Government’s Chequers proposals.

“That’s what people voted for. This honours that vote.”

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.

Our snap survey. Three in five Party members believe May’s new Brexit plan represents a bad deal for Britain.

And the same proportion don’t support it. This mirrors the Leave/Remain divide which the survey found before the EU referendum.