Robert Sutton: Top Tories on Twitter. Case Study 5) Steve Baker

An influential voice and well respected, the ERG politician has put his beliefs ahead of short-term career opportunism.

Mark Wallace: How Eurosceptics survived the wilderness years, and returned to win the day

The second piece in our mini-series on the road to Brexit explores the challenges which the anti-EU movement overcame to survive and then thrive.

Four former Brexit Party MEPs – including Rees-Mogg – join the Conservative Party

They helped to Get Brexit Done by urging Brexiteers to vote Tory in the election.

James Frayne: Voters would welcome a Brexit deal. But it might harm and not help the Conservatives with working class voters.

Would they actually think that, now Brexit’s done and immigration back under control, that they can return to their natural home in the Labour Party?

Who’s supporting whom: David Jeffery’s calculations. 4) ERG members.

From the blog of the University of Liverpool academic: his detailed breakdown of the contest.

Candidate applications open in seven more seats, including two extremely close marginals

Six of the seven constituencies in the new tranche voted Leave in the referendum.

The list of Conservative Associations which passed the pro-Brexit AGM motion

They range from Midlothian to South East Cornwall, from Rochester to Clwyd South.

Why – resentfully – I would vote for the Prime Minister’s deal

Like it or not, the choice has shifted away from ‘Deal or No Deal’ towards ‘Deal or No Brexit’. It’s better to fight against a bad deal outside the EU than to Remain.

Clark’s association passes pro-Brexit motion opposing a delay beyond the European elections

Despite obvious points of disagreement, the AGM remained a “civilised and constructive” affair in which the Business Secretary sought to reassure his activists.

This Parliamentary farce reveals how much our political class has been infantilised

I expected a Leave victory to be a profound shock and challenge to politicians. They have struggled to adapt even more than I anticipated.

Martin Howe: It is far better to risk extending Article 50 than to accept May’s bad deal

Extension would be a breach of promise, but it offers advantages which the Prime Minister’s vassal arrangement does not.

Can Labour out-Europhile The Independent Group with this second referendum pledge?

It rarely worked for the Conservatives when they tried to out-UKIP UKIP.

The Moggcast. He is “very concerned” delaying Brexit would allow “Tommy Robinson to win the European elections”.

“I don’t think a new Farage Party will be where the votes go.” Plus, Rees-Mogg’s view on Corbyn and May’s letters, and Tusk’s “confused” theology.

Italy’s spat with France shows the EU is at threat not of disintegration but of hijack

Will fans of the EU establishment be quite so keen on unaccountable, centralised institutions when their opponents start appointing commissioners?

WATCH: Tusk says there is “a special place in hell” for “those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan”

The President of the European Council appears to have been taking charm and diplomacy lessons from Andrew Adonis and AC Grayling.