Six months on from last year’s general election, it’s only the LibDems who bang on about Europe

The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.

Roderick Crawford: Brexit and trade. Here’s a grand bargain to open the way to a final agreement.

Specific governance arrangements can be established in individual areas, and an agreement should sit outside the overarching institutional framework.

Roderick Crawford: It’s time to recast the Brexit trade negotiation – and for Johnson to travel to Brussels

Essentially, the EU seems to want a controlled partnership, not a partnership that works because there are shared values and common interests.

Roderick Crawford: The UK/EU negotiation. How the impasse on state aid arose and how it can be ended.

It is clear from the Declaration that the Council’s directives for negotiating the future relationship with the UK have departed substantially from it.

No Deal 1) There is a green fly in the red, white and blue ointment. Or the other way round, if you prefer.

The lack of an agreed border with Ireland makes “an Australian-style settlement” more unlikely than would otherwise be the case.

Brexit, Johnson, Merkel, Macron – and 30 days in the wilderness

Their words, like Johnson’s visit itself, look more like more gambits in a blame game than a genuine change of heart.

Geoffrey van Orden: Why Conservative MEPs voted for von der Leyen, an advocate of an EU army, for Commission President

The alternatives were worse – and her record in overseeing the Bundeswehr suggests that the misguided project would be doomed on her watch.

Garvan Walshe: By picking von der Leyen, the EU has ensured that Remain would lose a second referendum

The ‘remain and reform’ mantra was implausible to begin with, but the choice of new EU Commission President fatally undermines it.

The farcical horse-trading of the EU’s top job is a stark reminder of why we must leave

Who are you voting for to run the EU Commission? Have you watched the debates and scrutinised their manifestos? Oh, wait.

Mark Harper: We need a date for Britain to leave the EU. But here’s why it can’t be October 31st – much as I’d like it to be.

So how are we going to get a new deal? The key is to build strong relationships, both across the Party, with our DUP allies, and with our European partners.

Henry Newman: The Alternative Arrangements Commission offers the best route through the backstop problem

There are real, viable answers to this sticky problem. But rebuilding trust may be as hard as resolving technical questions.

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 5) Making regional development more effective

The then EU Budget Commissioner told me that giving control of this funding to national governments would make it subject to “democratic whim”.

Stephen Booth: Brexit and the economy. There are ups, there are downs. But whatever happens, our fundamentals remain strong.

A flexible labour market, a well-regarded legal system, and comparatively favourable demographics relative to the major European economies are all valuable assets.

Henry Newman and Guglielmo Verdirame: It’s unlikely the backstop will be scrapped. But supplementing it can win what we want.

Even if the Exchange of Letters were viewed as just short of a treaty, it would be far from legally worthless.

Interview: Francois insists that the ERG wants the backstop ditched altogether – not tweaked

“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”