Anna Nadibaidze: Where do the other members of the EU stand on the question of an Article 50 delay?

It would need unanimous agreement. Looking at each of the 27’s varying comments, there are six distinct camps of opinion.

Henry Newman: A dozen reasons to unstop the backstop

It now the main issue blocking a negotiated agreement – thus risking a No Deal and potentially a harder Irish border. In short, it risks triggering the very thing it is supposed to avoid.

“Never mistake British politeness for British weakness.” Hunt’s Conference speech, full text

” If you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out won’t diminish it will grow…and we won’t be the only prisoner that will want to escape.”

Henry Newman: What will the EU look like after we have left it?

Our exit in will coincide with a new cycle of European elections which will redraw political power in the European Parliament and other EU institutions.

Daniel Hamilton: Ten years on from Putin’s invasion of Georgia, the West must learn the lesson of its failure

The 2008 war was an illustration of the serious threat the Kremlin posed. It went unheeded, and so Russia has repeated the trick.

Eighteen countries express solidarity with the UK by expelling Russian ‘diplomats’

The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.

Can May turn a good foreign policy week into political advantage at home?

Both leading EU states and the US are following the Prime Minister’s lead on Russia.

What Zahawi does in the daytime

Well, at least more people than previously now know he is Minister for Children and Families. What should be in his in-tray?

Young Labour’s anti-NATO policy is stuffed full of bogus, ahistorical nonsense

The future leaders of the Left either don’t know their history, or prefer a made-up version of it.

Iain Duncan Smith: Family breakdown is too big a problem to ignore any longer

Children lose out, and there’s a knock-on elder care, too.

Daniel Kawczynski: Brexit. Our European allies didn’t back us up in the past, so May can’t put her faith in them now

The overwhelming evidence, after years of trying, is that the political will and courage simply is not there.

Stuart Gardner: Do events in Lithuania signal the end for freedom of movement?

When the moral case is made for high levels of immigration, the negative impact of mass emigration on the countries left behind always seems to be forgotten.

Britain may need to join that European army after all

Trump’s words on NATO and his record to date suggest that we should tear up the rule book.

Owen Paterson: It’s time for the Government to face up to the grim truth. The NHS simply isn’t fit for purpose.

My think-tank’s new report finds that there are over 46,000 unnecessary deaths each and every year in the UK.

Lord Ashcroft: “If they leave, it’s the beginning of the end.“ The view of Brexit from Stockholm and Riga

“The UK is fighting for its citizens and rights. If every country was doing that it wouldn’t be possible to negotiate anything!”