The Government’s Chequers Agreement. From Canada Plus Plus Plus to Brexit Minus Minus Minus.

If no deal is better than a bad one, the sum of this policy is certainly a bad deal. Tory leavers now face a bleak choice.

Harmonisation on goods. Flexibility for services. UK management of EU tariffs in Britain. Government Brexit Chequers proposal. Full text.

Plus “due regard paid to EU case law in areas where the UK continues to apply a common rulebook”.

Brexiteer frog at boiling point

What may count most today is not whether the water simmers over, but whether his temper and patience do instead – or first.

“When each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground”

May’s appeal next week at Chequers will be founded in grinding detail, not Churchillian rhetoric. Key to agreement will be taking Ministers with her and springing no untoward surprises.

Lord Ashcroft: My latest polling explores the tensions and controversies around the union and Northern Ireland’s border

Crucially, opinion is not just divided between Leave and Remain, but between the Province and the mainland.

The people and locally-elected politicians must decide. Bradley’s letter to Tory MPs on abortion in Northern Ireland. Full text.

“What is clear however is that even amongst proponents of reform there is currently no consensus on what that reform should entail.”

Has Davis found the least-bad way out of the Government’s self-imposed border bind?

Perhaps – if the Brexit Secretary can demonstrate that his proposals are compatible with May’s red lines, and saleable to the DUP.

Iain Dale: Madeley thinks he got the better of Williamson. I beg to differ.

Plus: A crazy clergyman, a bonkers Imam, and unreason on obesity. Richard Holden’s innocence. And: I am ready for Desert Island Dicks.

Henry Hill: SNP blueprint for independence alienates left-wing supporters

Also: female Tories press the Prime Minister for action on Ulster abortion law; and Davies urges Party to unite over Brexit.

Britain and abortion. Women are more likely to support new restrictions.

It’s a counter-intuitive take – but it’s what the sum of opinion polling in recent years tends to suggest.

We bow to the case for another referendum

It looks to be the least bad medium-term means of settling the future of abortion laws in Northern Ireland.

Lord Ashcroft: My Republic of Ireland focus groups on Brexit. They both agree that the UK is making a terrible mistake.

“Two years later no-one knows what they want, even the Tory party. Theresa May says one thing and Boris Johnson says another.”

Henry Hill: New polls find no surge in support for Northern Ireland leaving the UK

Also: Davidson calls for ’emotion bonds’ of the Union to be strengthened; SNP face tough choices on independence ‘summer offensive’; and more.

Lord Ashcroft: Brexit, border polls and customs checks – my new focus groups in Northern Ireland

Understandably, the unionists and republicans we interviewed have very different views on the questions facing the Province.

Let’s leave the EU first and get a better Brexit later. What some Leave supporters are saying.

They argue that even if May doesn’t deliver a clean outcome, the priority must be to ensure that the Article 50 timetable is met.