David Shiels: By talking up a No Deal Irish border poll, Ministers are playing into Sinn Fein’s hands

The topic is being discussed – including at Cabinet – but that in itself is not convincing evidence that such a major change is imminent.

Garvan Walshe: The defeat of May’s deal was a consequence of half a decade of negotiation failure

Why should the EU offer any more to an inconstant departing member, which can’t be relied on to deliver ratification of any agreement?

WATCH: Tomlinson sets out the case for opponents of the Withdrawal Agreement

“I am a serial loyalist. I have never rebelled against the Government… and I do so with a heavy heart, but with a clear head.”

WATCH: Penning says he will not back any agreement which includes the backstop

“I served in Northern Ireland, and I lost good colleagues – to protect the Union. I will not vote for anything that doesn’t protect the Union.”

Rob Wilson: It is still possible for May to revive her dead parrot of a deal – but it won’t be easy

There are four steps she must take, successfully and in short order, to be in with any chance of seeing it fly.

Henry Hill: The strange Scottish Conservative rebellion against the Withdrawal Agreement

If you’d had to guess which of their MPs would rebel on the deal, Lamont and Ross wouldn’t have made the top six.

WATCH: Dodds says Democratic Unionists are “abiding by our side of the bargain”

“We entered into the confidence and supply agreement in relation to supporting Brexit on the basis of our shared priorities.”

WATCH: Foster days DUP would review confidence and supply agreement if May’s deal passes

“The deal was signed to deliver on Brexit, and to do that in a way that had shared principles between the Democratic Unionist Party and the Conservative Party.”

Henry Hill: Hammond and Johnson set to appear at the DUP conference

Also: Jones criticised for shielding ministers from independent scrutiny; and Mundell’s bizarre pop at ‘carpet-bagging’ colleagues.

A first glance at some of the main points in May’s deal

We set five tests for it. Does this draft agreement pass them? And does it really take back control of our borders, laws and money?

“We have gone from no deal is better than a bad deal, to any deal is better than no deal.” McVey’s resignation letter – full text

“I cannot defend this, and I cannot vote for this deal. I could not look my constituents in the eye were I to do that. I therefore have no alternative but to resign…”

“I cannot reconcile the terms of the proposed deal with the promises we made to the country.” Raab’s resignation letter – full text

“No democratic nation has ever signed up to be bound by such an extensive regime, imposed externally without any democratic control… nor the ability to decide to exit”.

David Shiels: Brexit, Northern Ireland, and borders. Why the DUP may yet break ranks with May – and force a general election

The issue of the backstop is becoming more heated and harder to navigate as time goes by.

When the Conservative-DUP pact is renegotiated, both parties must be bold

The Brexit negotiations ought to have highlighted to both sides how the Union is best served by a strong cross-water alliance.

Alistair Lexden: How the 1918 election paved the way to inter-war Conservative hegemony

Just as they had with Joe Chamberlain before him, the Tory leadership wooed Lloyd George to fatally fracture the Liberal Party.