Theresa Villiers expresses the concerns of Brexiteers that Number 10 is shifting away from a clean Brexit towards permanent alignment with the EU:

Conservative MP and Brexiteer Theresa Villiers says compromising too much with the EU could ‘eventually get to a point where we wouldn’t genuinely be leaving the European Union’ #bbcsppic.twitter.com/AKGsDGEv2Y

— BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) January 28, 2018

But Brexit minister Martin Callanan insists the UK will have the freedom to diverge in future:

.@LordCallanan tells #bbcsp that the government isn’t backsliding on Brexit.

“The objective that we have for the negotiations remain as she [PM] set out.” pic.twitter.com/cXnuTqCzoD

— BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) January 28, 2018

If we don’t, what is the point of Brexit?

Joyce Anelay is leaving her role as Minister of State in DExEU for health reasons, replaced by Eurosceptic former Tory MEP leader Martin Callanan. A grassroots favourite, he knows his stuff and should be a popular choice.

UPDATE: Anelay says she is quitting because of an injury sustained jumping out of a Black Hawk helicopter:

“It was the Black Hawk helicopter that did it. It was 2015, and as a Foreign Office Minister I was touring Bosnia and Herzegovina, meeting victims of war and terror for whom British overseas power had been a ladder out of oppression. Unfortunately for me, that particular ladder hadn’t materialised when it came to getting out of the helicopter. One ill-judged leap later, and I sustained an uncomfortable injury that has called time on my ministerial career after two decades on the Front Bench.”