Howard Flight: We should be more enthusiastic about post-Brexit opportunities for Britain

I understand the Government’s keenness to achieve a free trade agreement with the EU, but we need to be careful that the price is not too high.

Bernard Jenkin: So you want to know what the EU deal means? My advice is – find a good lawyer.

There is plenty of reason to check that the Government’s ones have been giving sound legal advice to ministers. Too often, it has been wrong.

British/Irish stew

The deal’s internal contradictions are coming back to haunt it, to the confusion of May, Varadkar, Juncker, Barnier – the whole lot of them.

Our snap survey. Seven out of ten party members think May was right to agree last week’s Brexit deal

Perhaps while Party members don’t like elements of the deal very much, their main emotional reaction to it is simply relief that trade talks are set to begin.

Nick Herbert: The question isn’t whether aid works. It does. The question is how it can work better.

The challenge for aid donors and recipients alike is to work together to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.

Henry Newman: If Ireland overplays its hand, it could collapse the Brexit talks entirely. Which would hit it harder than us.

Dublin is in danger of setting conditions that Westminster cannot meet. Instead, we must return to our historic willingness to navigate difficulties together.

Brexit. How Britain’s lack of interest in Ireland, and Ireland’s lack of imagination about Britain, join to threaten disaster

Dublin likes to cite the Belfast Agreement, and we certainly all need what it exemplified – that’s to say, a good old-fashioned face-saving fudge.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why Brexit, politics – and everything else – can’t just be about economics

A weakness in this book is that its support for nation states is predicated on disappointed economic necessity.

Graham Gudgin: Brussels and Dublin should stop playing games with the Irish border issue

A sensible solution is achievable, but unnecessary brinksmanship and over-the-top rhetoric helps nobody.

Brexit. Red lines for EU payments.

The Cabinet must have a clearer collective idea than it does now of what it wants to gain from a deal – and, in particular, how it intends to handle regulatory divergence.

Andrew Green: No, EFTA membership would not give us adequate control of immigration. There is a better way.

MigrationWatch has suggested that those EU migrants with skills in short supply should be able to come to the UK for a time-limited period after Brexit.

Rebecca Park: A Brexit deal on financial services is achievable

Britain and the EU are as well-placed as any two parties could be to strike a comprehensive agreement which covers this critical industry.

James Cartlidge: We should consider joining EFTA – which would give us the brake on unskilled EU migration that we may need

If we are also out of CAP, CFP and direct ECJ jurisdiction, able to negotiate our own trade deals and in the Single Market, it might not be such a bad outcome after all.

Our survey and Brexit. Party members divide down the middle about bringing a halt to the talks.

Party member opinion on the negotiations is clearly at the harder end of the spectrum on independence and economics – though not invariably on immigration.

Ashley Fox: I believe that there will be a Brexit deal. But Hammond must none the less use his Budget to prepare for the worst.

If the measures involved prove unnecessary, any money lost will be a fraction of the financial gains from having secured a mutually acceptable deal.