The Radicrats or the Demicals – or how to create a Two Nations Party

The simultaneous creation and collapse of a new force has been written off an establishment failure. The truth is more interesting.

Iain Dale: Wotcha, Peston. WTF are you on?

My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.

Ben Bradley: My generation of 25-45 year olds should be the heartland of Conservative politics.

There’s a place for having a go at Corbyn – how could we not when so much of what he says is so indefensible? – but it has to be combined with our plan for a better life.

The time has not yet come – and may not do so at all – to break off the Brexit talks

The Government should be as Ready on Day One as it can be: Deal or No Deal. To help achieve this end and reboot economic policy, Gove should go to the Treasury.

Garvan Walshe: The US Congress should stick with the Iran Deal

The deal won’t stop Iran’s nuclear programme for good, but it is still better than alternative, military means of non-proliferation.

Danny Stone: Conservatives are right to fight anti-semitism – but beware making it a political football

Condemnation of such bigotry in other political parties must not be reduced to partisan mudslinging.

MPs aren’t civil servants – the starting-point for debate on whether they should have the right to maternity leave

If being an MP really was to become a job in the eyes of the law, would we want them to be state employees or self-employed – or find other options?

Profile: David Gauke, today defending Universal Credit…later to be uncorked as Chancellor?

“He is the Red Adair of the administration – the middle-order batsman who, if the openers are out cheaply, ensures that the middle order does not collapse.”

Alex Morton: May should reshuffle her Cabinet to spark renewal

People want a new settlement, not establishment politics.

Alex Wild: Build houses, abolish NICs for people under 30. How to win younger peoples’ votes.

The youth vote is not one homogenous lump: more than half of school leavers won’t go to university, and won’t benefit from more generous student loan terms.

Is the Government prepared for the political pressures of a rise in interest rates?

Not only would many borrowers feel pain, but the Opposition might well be tempted to seize the chance to pile on the pressure.

Christopher Howarth: The flurry of Withdrawal Bill amendments range from pointless to legally illiterate

Parliament authorised Brexit through Article 50, but now risks refusing the Government the chance to guarantee legal continuity.

Sam Gyimah: The time to develop a bright vision for post-Brexit social reform is right now

We must follow the example of Beveridge, Butler and Willink.

Provision for No Deal is in the Conservative manifesto. A vote against it would thus be one of confidence.

It follows that any Tory MP voting with Corbyn would thus be deprived of the whip, and ineligible to stand as a Party candidate in any election that followed.

Nadhim Zahawi: Our Government should make it clear that Trump is on his own over Iran

The President himself hasn’t set out what he would like to happen next, and has provided no detailed plan for what would replace the current agreement.