Hardish in principle, softer in detail, she is crafting a position intended to get those elusive trade talks going as soon as possible.
Our mini-series this week revealed points of broad consensus and points of approaching conflict on the centre right in terms of how the tax burden is distributed.
Meanwhile, 51 per cent of respondents believe that Theresa May should resign as Party leader before the next election.
It’s later than Osborne planned, but good news nonetheless. Now Hammond must hold the course, and resist siren calls to start splashing the cash.
Yes, the negotiation may break down. But some of the playing to the gallery has a ritual element about it, not unlike the staged theatrics of all-in wrestling.
May sounded unusually confident, but Johnson scuttled out of the Chamber.
Some will not understand the technical arcana, but they will have grasped a point none the less: taking back control of our trade policy.
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.
Plus: should we join a customs union which replicates the EU Customs Union? And our usual Cabinet League Table and Next Tory Leader questions.
It’s one thing to recognise the long-term threats posed by states such as Russia, quite another to meet them.
What was sketched out yesterday, boiled down to essentials, sounds a lot like his Canada Plus Plus Plus. But no decision yet it seems on the Customs Union.
Robert Tombs asked at yesterday evening’s meeting if Tony Blair, Ken Clarke and Peter Mandelson really want us to enter a United States of Europe.
The Prime Minister, despite her personal unionism, is setting a course for stormy constitutional waters. It will fall to her successors to navigate them.
Cabinet differences on policy are resolvable within the framework that May has already set. Practical preparation is the real Achilles Heel.
The Prime Minister told one good joke and then bored her way to victory.