Stewart Jackson: Mendacity, duplicity, subterfuge and misjudgement. How I saw an establishment coup wreck a clean Brexit.

Number Ten has been desperate from the start that we must remain in the Customs Union – and endure a kind of semi-skimmed faux Brexit.

The backstop threatens the Union. Davidson knows it. And May can’t afford to lose her.

It isn’t just pro-Brexit MPs who should be watching the Prime Minister carefully. It’s pro-Union ones: in other words, all of them.

WATCH: Sturgeon on Brexit – “Never has so much been lost by so many to satisfy so few”

The SNP leader addresses the party’s annual conference in Glasgow, and also calls for “pragmatism and patience” on a second independence referendum.

WATCH: Sturgeon claims Scottish independence is inevitable

She adds that Brexit brings the issues around it “very sharply into focus”.

Scottish Labour may yet do Britain a service… by sparing it Corbyn

It will help Davidson solidify her grip on the unionist base, and give swing voters minded for a change from the SNP fewer alternatives to consider.

Iain Dale: Onanistic Cybernats

Online they swarm when I ask for questions to Davidson: they must be frightened of her. Plus: what was May thinking? What I’ll be doing. Top 100 people on the Conservative Right. And: why Farage should quit UKIP.

Henry Hill: McCluskey suggests that Unite may support Labour standing in Northern Ireland

It’s a Labour special: Leonard contradicts Corbyn to rule out support for second Scottish referendum; and Jones offers cash boost to firms affected by Brexit.

Alex Hedger: Corbyn sells the pass on a second Scottish referendum. And the Coalition of Chaos stirs in its unquiet grave.

The Labour leader is ready to bargain his way to power by bidding for the support of the SNP in the event of a hung Parliament.

Henry Hill: Brexiteer Unionist MP survives first-ever recall petition

Also: Salmond faces mounting pressure over allegations; Welsh Labour scrap electoral college for leadership vote; DUP maintain tough border stance; and more.

Rebecca Lowe: The Conservatives and women. The Tory electoral challenge has more to do with age than gender.

Rather than wasting time with forays into positive discrimination, the Conservatives should weight the merits of various forms of increased flexibility at work.

James Bundy: The SNP’s virtue-signalling has severely damaged the Scottish education system

Falling standards, the cutting of college places, and the capping of courses available to Scots at Scottish universities are the direct consequence of their policy.

Henry Hill: Salmond quits the SNP and takes Scottish Government to court

Also: Government accused of ‘appeasing the IRA’ over Ulster veterans; Welsh Labour leadership hopefuls in data row; and DUP urge end to Stormont boycott.

Davidson, the best hope of the Stop Johnson campaign

A new biography fails to convey the Scottish Conservative Leader’s gusto, but does show how traditional she is.

Henry Hill: Democratic Unionists demand answers over Rowntree donations to terror-linked groups

Also: Corbyn tries to rally support with Scottish tour; Clark in Dublin to keep Ulster’s lights on during no-deal Brexit; and huge scale of Scottish deficit revealed.

Henry Hill: Scottish Tories on the offensive as SNP come under pressure on education

Also: Home Office plans for stop-and-search on Ulster border spark criticism; debate stirs on abolishing the Welsh Assembly; and DUP slammed for ignoring Westminster.