Downing Street in its new incarnation will value his ability to build bridges with a Parliamentary Party still reeling from the shock election result.
The current procedures are unsustainable, unbalanced and undemocratic.
On English-only consent votes, the Conservative majority will leap to a whopping 104.
It only takes nine rebel Conservative MPs to defeat the Government. If that became a regular occurrence, voters would not forgive us.
In the wake of the row over an anti-upskirting bill and Chris Chope’s objection, we re-run the author’s 2016 piece calling on the Government to act.