Yes, our system favours the established parties. But it is not invulnerable to change. This could be the start of a breakthrough.

The failure of the SDP by no means proves that a new movement of this kind is doomed to failure.

Interview. “Look, this is a Christian country”, says Hinds. But he adds that the cap on new faith schools’ admissions should stay.

At times, says the Education Secretary, the post he holds requires “a bold and vociferous and constant presence”. But “at other times less so”.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May bores for Brexit, and has hopes of dividing and ruling

The Prime Minister assured Labour MPs that she will stand up for workers’ rights.

Why Britain wants to leave this European Union of failed nation states

In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Thornberry claims we are being swept over the Niagara Falls

But neither she nor Lidington sounded as if they expect Brexit to end in disaster.

Interview. Raab on the great opportunities and imponderable risks that he sees in a No Deal Brexit

The former Brexit Secretary warns of the danger that MPs will believe the Government has not even demanded the necessary concessions from Brussels.

Profile: Philip May, the Prime Minister’s closest and best sounding board

He would be averse to leaving without a deal, but even more alarmed by the idea of taking any course of action which risked breaking the Tory Party into fragments.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Corbyn digs himself into a hole as the Prime Minister starts to unite her party

The Leader of the Opposition looked totally incapable of taking over.

Kit Malthouse – the pragmatic Brexit broker bringing Tory MPs together

He learned at Westminster Council and City Hall the politics of persuading people to agree.

Sanders is a refreshing change from the careerists who infest American as well as British politics.

So though he presents himself as anti-Trump, he has something in common with him. And there could, astonishingly, be a future for socialism in America.

May and Corbyn do nothing to raise their backbenchers’ spirits

They are curiously well-matched, for both of them prefer repetition to entertainment.

Interview: Francois insists that the ERG wants the backstop ditched altogether – not tweaked

“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”

Not yet angry – but patriotic and bewildered. Fear of betrayal is the dominant emotion at the Leave Means Leave rally

Farage urged everyone to prepare for a second referendum, and concluded: “Next time, as far as I’m concerned, it’s no more Mr Nice Guy.”

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Nobody is yet saying “Send for Corbyn”

But the Prime Minister had to proceed with caution in the No Confidence debate, in order to arouse no suspicion that she might seek moderate Labour votes.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: For Cox to speak with such force suggested how desperate May’s predicament has become.

He suggested that it would be absurd to reject the Government’s motion merely because of the Northern Ireland backstop.