“I can break her” – Williamson’s war for defence spending intensifies, and targets the Prime Minister

What is the Defence Secretary up to? Why now? And is the extraordinary threat he is reported to have made true?

Three laws for Leavers: Be thankful, be watchful, and above all be happy

Reminiscence is less important than securing the result of the referendum, once and for all. Here is the way to ensure we take back control.

Does the rail crisis suggests limits to political accountability in the age of quangos?

Chris Grayling has reportedly “informed Network Rail that this must not happen again”, even as he faced a Commons vote of no confidence.

Iain Dale: My hunch is that employers will pay for this NHS spending spree

Plus: Shame on the Conservative whips. And away with Julian Assange: most of us would happily pay his airfare.

Kieran Mullan: Learning the right lessons from the horrors at Gosport

Individuals must be held account. It is the least we owe the relatives and patients. But we should be precise and forensic in focusing on areas where further reforms can make the most impact.

Brexit. What May should do next. Replace Robbins with Davis – and prepare for No Deal.

Since she might not get an acceptable agreement, or indeed any at all, the Government must strain to get Ready for Day One, not Ready for Day 730.

Dean Godson: Beauty is the key to delivering the extra homes that our country needs

People’s preferences are clear. But the current system insists on bringing forward designs that jar painfully with them.

Scott Kelly: Technical education is still too narrow, and flaws in the apprenticeship levy are hindering progress

The Government must act now, or risk a generation of school leavers missing out on the opportunity to acquire technical skills.

Ben Roback: Children in cages – part of Trump’s playbook for the mid-terms and the next presidential election

The Republican base which is so staunchly loyal to its president shows no sign of wavering over an issue that candidate Trump was persistently vocal about.

Grieve is right. The logic of a Government defeat today leads to a change of leadership – and a general election

Neither Tory MPs nor voters want a poll, but a paralysed Government and Parliament would make one all but unavoidable long before 2022.

Robert Halfon: AK47s, pluralism, war, students, cigars – and I get high. What I saw amidst Kurdistan’s fledgeling democracy.

I hope that, one day, it is no longer just an autonomous region in Iraq, but gets the independence it deserves.

Philippa Stroud: The refugee crisis is the humanitarian issue of our time

Of the 66 million people globally who have been forcibly displaced, approximately 40.3 million are displaced within their own countries.

No pothead is an island

Any eventual review of drugs policy as a whole must focus on collective consequences rather than individual rights.

The Moggcast. “There clearly is a Brexit dividend” but “the IFS and the Bank of England carry on with Project Fear”

Rees-Mogg argues “the upskirting ban should have been a Government Bill” from the outset, not left to backbenchers. Plus: is he watching the World Cup?

Steven Woolfe: To win the working class northern vote, the Conservative Party must change its attitude and tone

The issue lies in the Party’s image and how it communicates with voters, not the actual message.