AS I write, the Ukranian President is warning of a “full-scale war” with Russia.

Petro Poroshenko says that troops and tanks are massing on his border and has placed his country under martial law in anticipation of an attack.

Today, an idea that I have been promoting took its first tentative step over dinner at the Portland Heights Hotel. The idea is simple.

Here we go again! Project Fear 2. Chancellor Hammond and his team of Remainers once again warn we're going to hell in a handcart. As freedom day approaches these tactics are going to be applied more and more.

Investment

We are the number one destination in Europe for foreign investment.
Since June 2016, UK tech companies have received over £5 billion in venture capitalist funding – more than France (£1.55bn), Germany (£2.15bn) and Sweden (£644m) combined

Exports

The Draft Withdrawal Agreement

     A legally binding draft treaty including:

EU and UK citizens’ rights
Transition period
Financial settlement of c.£39bn
A potentially permanent backstop Customs Union
Other provisions on security cooperation etc

More and more rumours abound as this so-called Withdrawal Deal and Political Declaration are torn apart, and rightly so.

Another sad day for democracy and politics in this country. The Prime Minister was making her second Statement in a few days about the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration. Few, if any of us, were happy with either, both riddled with ambiguity.

10 Downing Street has published a ‘rebuttal’ to my article in this week's Spectator looking at the legal implications of the Withdrawal Agreement. Regrettably, its responses to my critique go beyond making a best case for the treaty. Instead, No.

DESPITE repeated assurances that we were going to take back control of our fishing waters, the matter is once again on the negotiating table.

In a speech on Wednesday, I said this would send a shiver through the spines of every fisherman.

Out to Dorchester first thing for one of my regular meetings with council officials and our senior cllr Jeff Cant. It lasted about an hour and we went through an agenda that covered many key areas.