Andrew Gimson’s Conference sketch: Williamson promises to beat Germany at technical education

Ministers proclaim that social reform is patriotic.

Andrew Gimson’s Conference sketch: The Foreign Secretary trumped by Rees-Mogg the Tory Democrat

Raab trod gingerly in Heseltine’s footsteps, while the Leader of the House presented the Shakespearean drama of politics.

Cameron’s Blairite apologia shows that he did not understand Eurosceptic passion

The former Prime Minister also failed to grasp that Merkel was not going to do anything very much for him.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Prime Minister makes a joyless return, armed with a bludgeon

There was a drilled, demeaning feel to the burst of clapping with which his backbenchers greeted him.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Attorney-General thunders against the turkeys – and warns them that Christmas is coming

Cox fulminated against Opposition MPs for being frightened of voting for a general election.

Contempt for the Labour leader is no substitute for the hard work of showing why his policies are wrong

Corbyn has been wily enough not to plunge into the Brexit trap set for him by Johnson.

Interview with Laing, candidate for Speaker: It’s “extraordinary” that whoever holds the office “is totally unaccountable”.

“Dignity, kindness, authority rather than bossiness, and I do believe that those things could be brought to the Chair by a woman.”

Andrew Gimson’s Supreme Court sketch: Lord Pannick tries to throw the Prime Minister out of respectable society

Johnson stands accused of trying to drive through Brexit in accordance with the referendum result.

Ashcroft’s life of Rees-Mogg, a serious politician mistaken for a character out of P.G.Wodehouse

Never before has so much material been assembled from such a wealth of sources about the Leader of the House.

The shocking truth about Commons disorder. MPs during Brexit “have been almost shamefully well behaved”

Churchill in his Liberal days wore with pride the scar inflicted on his forehead by the copy of Commons Standing Orders hurled at him by an enraged Tory in 1912.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson makes Corbyn look weak

The Prime Minister reminded everyone that he likes nothing better than to go out in rough seas.

The Duke abandons the Tories and Grieve goes for Cummings

And Bercow, bad-mannered to the end, announces that he at least will leave on 31st October

The Jo Johnson resignation: not fratricide, but the most logical and honourable response to an intolerable conflict of interest

He has resigned because his profound loyalty to his brother cannot be reconciled with his profound opposition to a no deal Brexit.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: A strange and ominous day in the Palace of Westminster

Clarke delivered an attack which recalled Howe’s on Thatcher.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson sets out to infuriate his opponents

The pleasures of moral condemnation could distract the PM’s critics from replying to his arguments.