To salvage her Brexit policy, May must now ensure that her government is ready for No Deal. Or it won’t last.

There is time to correct the lack of preparedness of our customs and computers for 2019. But it is running out.

John Stevens: I am passionately pro-EU. But here’s why I believe Johnson was right about patriotism.

The referendum was at least as much a vote against London as against Brussels – and those whose expert arrogance made them seem to many to be foreigners here.

Kieron O’Hara: An unloved Prime Minister. An inadequate Foreign Secretary. And a hamstrung Trade Secretary. What a Brexit mess.

This is not a pro-Remain article. Rather, my point is that a referendum is a horrible way of making political decisions, and we are where we are as a direct result.

May returns to a positive score in our Cabinet League Table

Members seem to agree that the Prime Minister has staged a mild recovery over the summer.

Our survey. Almost three in four Party members want any Brexit implementation plan to finish before the next election

There will be speculation about Cabinet differences until there is a common position. At any rate, the activists’ consensus is unambiguous.

Brexit, customs, implementation and new trade deals. May wants to have her cake and eat it – but not quite yet

We will all have to wait until after the autumn’s federal election in Germany until the negotiating positions of the two sides start to firm up.

Philip Hammond, committed Brexiteer

Claims that he slapped down his own department, which wanted a ten-year transition, are a sign that Ministers may be getting their act together.

Hammond takes a hammering in our latest Cabinet League Table

Rudd falls with him, May is almost out of negative territory…and Davidson continues to soar up, up and away.

Iain Dale: Dear Cabinet Ministers – if you must fight one another, do it in private

Plus: I’m beating James O’Brien; Labour’s telling silence on Venezuela; and saying farewell to a friend.

ConservativeHome’s new monthly survey is out

We now have eleven runners and riders in our Next Tory Leader section…with another 15 candidates standing by. Watch this space.

John Horam: This Government can succeed if it focuses on key policies

Brexit, housing, public sector pay, education, and industrial strategy should be the the stars by which ministers set a course for victory in 2022.

Iain Dale: My advice to my latest successor as Davis’s Chief of Staff

Plus: As I bask by a sun-illuminated swimming pool on holiday in Spain, I reflect on how the Spanish respond if you try to fiddle your water supply…

Gove and Fox must work together to prepare farmers for Brexit

The Article 50 clock is ticking – their departments must waste no more time in preparing the agricultural sector for the challenges and opportunities posed by global trade.

Would Barry Gardiner eat an American chlorine-washed chicken?

OK, it’s a silly question, but it applies no less to Liam Fox’s shadow than to the Trade Secretary himself.

WATCH: Fox says transitional period is “about the practical issues”

He stresses the importance of a “smooth transition” for businesses.