Is May pivoting to Canada?

Prepare for a Rule Britannia defence of Chequers at Party Conference…followed by its junking afterwards, as May is forced towards the most practicable alternative presently on offer.

Around the black cloud of Salzburg one can glimpse a silver lining

The EU’s rejection of Chequers gives May a chance to unite her party around Canada Plus Plus Plus – the only strategic Brexit option now open to her.

Davidson says “I will not be a candidate.” Where does the Tory left look for a leadership contender?

One can conjure up the names of former Ministers, present Ministers and backbenchers. But only one of them presently sits at the Cabinet table.

Iain Dale: Will May challenge her critics to put up or shut up – and herself get a confidence ballot staged?

Plus: John Lewis blames Brexit. Juncker gets a drink. BBC stasis at Question Time and PM. And: Trump can’t emote.

Flying frogs

Pro-Brexit MPs weighed a no-confidence vote in Theresa May yesterday evening. But the essential case against one remains unchanged.

Opposing Chequers is not enough

During the weeks and months ahead, Conservative MPs will need to use their heads as well as their hearts to reach the Brexit winning line.

Where bungling the burka row has got the Conservative Party. Damned if it investigates Johnson. And damned if it doesn’t.

Any proceedings against him under the Party’s Code of Conduct threaten a cats-cradle of conflicts of interest and breaches of natural justice.

Iain Dale: The man who made me tear my hair out. (So you now know why I don’t have any.)

Yes: there was nothing I could do to stop Sean Spicer from being an utter dick. Plus: Guido’s recovery, the Tory Chief Whip’s troubles…and Mamma Mia 2.

The Conservative Brexit choice. Seek to park the UK in the EEA under a new Tory leader. Or press on.

If Tory MPs think that No Deal would collapse Brexit altogether, or that it would be unmanageable next March, they need a Plan B. But we stress: if.

Stephen Hammond’s loss and Phillip Lee’s win. Full list of Conservatives who rebelled on Trade Bill amendments.

The presence of four Labour Leavers helped the UK to avoid a customs union – but their absence on a more minor amendment produced a Government defeat.

The 14 Conservatives who voted against the ERG’s Customs Bill amendment on tariffs

Frank Field, Kate Hoey, Graham Stringer and Kelvin Hopkins voted with the Government.

Scott Mann becomes the latest PPS to resign in opposition to May’s Brexit plan

‘…the Brexit White Paper will inevitably put me in direct conflict with the views expressed by a large section of my constituents….’

Nicky Morgan: Once again, we split over Europe. Once again, we undermine our leader. We Conservatives are set to repeat the same failed cycle. Will we never learn?

We are re-proving that ‘we learn from history that we do not learn from history’.

Robert Courts, Cameron’s successor, is the latest Conservative MP to resign over Brexit

Is the Witney MP’s decision a one-off, or part of a co-ordinated plan – with more to come? Downing Street and the Whips will be searching for an answer.

WATCH: “She’ll win any vote of confidence hands down”, Duncan predicts

“The very fact that people think they might do this is utterly destructive, utterly unnecessary, and they should back her to the hilt.”