WATCH: Trump on May. “She will do very well. I think she’s a very tough negotiator.”

The President says that the Prime Minister may yet take his advice about the talks – but she can’t just walk away.

WATCH: Trump. I apologised to the Prime Minister this morning over the Sun interview

He says that May is “a total professional” and said to him in response: “Don’t worry – it’s only the press…I thought that was very professional.”

Nothing has changed? Come off it. The Prime Minister is treating voters and MPs like fools.

As a split in the Conservative Party finally threatens for real, May must explain why and when she backed off mutual recognition.

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.

Are we due a “Boris eruption”? Where he, May, Davis and Hammond are now on the Government’s Brexit strategy.

The Prime Minister’s stance on regulatory alignment is very hard indeed to square with his vision of a freewheeling Britain. Watch this space.

The Budget morning-after. The papers could be a lot worse for the Chancellor.

The FT has the balanced “Grim outlook overshadows housing drive” while the Times goes for “Hammond eases off austerity”. The i has “Hammond’s hard-hat budget”.

Businesses should stop panicking in the face of left-wing twitterstorms

It’s understandable why Paperchase chickened out over their Daily Mail advert – but it was still a mistake.

Janet Finch-Saunders: Labour councils backing a ban on The Sun show their hostility to free speech

Legal protection means the vote in Flintshire this week was just a gesture – but it serves as a warning of the Left’s intolerance.

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.

Revenge-and-tell? Perhaps. But Nick Timothy’s return to journalism promises much more.

For all his manifesto mistakes, his core take is correct. The key people in elections are who he has always said they are: lower middle-class, provincial, home-owning voters.

The Conservatives must rediscover a sense of purpose

Upholding the rule of law in the capital by defeating moped crime would be a good start.

Interview: May – No, we’re not proposing leaving the ECHR. For the moment, we will look “at what else we can do”

But she confirms that Britain is leaving the ECJ’s jurisdiction, and says that there is a very clear choice on Thursday – between “me and Jeremy Corbyn”.

We asked for Grown-Up Government. Now we’ve got it.

May’s manifesto is real politics – that’s to say, a serious attempt to prepare Britain for the post-Brexit challenges of the future.

The supporters of grammar schools could well be Greening’s biggest problem

Today’s papers show she already has a tough time pleasing everyone.

Iain Dale: The BBC’s flagrant bias for Obama and against Trump

Plus: Off I go to Washington for the inauguration. Time to strip Southern of its franchise. And: what happened when I had breakfast with Andrew Pierce.