WATCH: Starmer says Labour’s plans need both a customs union and a single market deal

The Shadow Brexit Secretary claims that there is now widespread concern about the Government’s ability to bring home any sort of deal at all.

Boiling the Brexiteer frog

We are being nudged towards Norway Minus rather than Canada Plus Plus Plus almost without anyone noticing.

Peter Lilley: Sovereignty or prosperity? It’s a false choice. They go hand in hand.

Not being able to blame Brussels for our problems nor look to the EU for solutions will be immensely reinvigorating.

WATCH: Chakrabarti explains why Labour want a ‘bespoke arrangement’ with the EU

“Our economy is very different from Norway”, she explains as she demurs from Lord Kinnock’s proposals.

The risks to May if she backs off leaving the Customs Union

“I’m not saying that there would be an organised push, but the letters would just go in to Graham Brady,” one senior pro-Leave backbencher told this site yesterday.

Henry Newman: Even if the Government concedes on an EU customs union, membership of it looks unsustainable. Here’s why.

Can we really imagine ministers rejecting Justin Trudeau’s trade deal offer, or one from the American administration, or from Australia and New Zealand?

Chris Daniels: It’s time for real parental equality at work after a child is born

Large companies should be required to offer paternity leave on the same basis as maternity leave. Families should have the choice of who should stay home.

Henry Newman: May is right – the EU cherry-picks whenever it is politically convenient. Brexit should be such a time.

From its range of tailor-made trade deals to its habit of allowing Member States to break the rules, Brussels is more flexible than Barnier’s rhetoric might suggest.

Our survey. Party members overwhelmingly oppose the Norway option. The majority against a Swiss model is less emphatic.

Whatever you think of the latter idea, it can’t fairly be said that, in the minds of a significant tranche of Party members, the door to it is firmly closed.

Stephen Hammond: Why I will be tabling amendments to the Trade Bill to explore joining EFTA

To shut off consideration of realistic and achievable ways of supporting the Government’s Brexit objectives would be irresponsible.

David Campbell Bannerman: Why EFTA wouldn’t work for Britain

We don’t need a European solution; we need a global solution. We must think independent Anglosphere, not dependent Eurosphere.

Why our European neighbours think we’re a basket case

Johnson’s speech today and the Commission’s basic take are strangely similar – Brexit points to a Canada-type settlement on alignment and divergence.

Henry Newman: Enough! May must make up her mind on Brexit – or risk the collapse of her negotiating position.

It’s often suggested that the Remain wing of the Cabinet wouldn’t wear such a choice. I doubt it.

Henry Newman: The Brexit regulation debate pits short-term disruption against future prosperity

Even Whitehall’s fiercest advocates of the need to stay as close as possible to the EU recognise that there are risks in being a rule-taker not a rule-maker.

Lee Rotherham: The 42 different types of trade relationship with the EU (so far)

Although some pretend the UK must choose between binary options, the reality of what is possible is rather different.