With Reform UK and Alliance for Unity, five pro-union parties are lining-up to fight the SNP – and each other.

Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?

Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown

Will equal sized constituencies redraw the electoral battle map?

British sovereignty has been restored – thanks to ERG obstinacy and Keir Starmer’s epic miscalculation

Boris Johnson’s deal has succeeded where Theresa May’s deal failed to convince the ERG’s spartans

In sentiment – if not in its detail – the deal echoes Churchill’s vision for Britain and Europe

Sturgeon spells out why Scotland’s path back to the EU would be hindered by an illegal referendum attempt

How far will regulatory divergence be permitted and how will disputes be settled?

The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day