When it comes to dealing with its own MPs, this Government is out of its depth

Some of its problems can be fixed. Others won’t be. And one perhaps can’t be: namely, that this Parliament seems to be incapable of saying No.

On the 14-day quarantine, the Government has got it right

The priority must be to get rid of the virus – anything to jeopardise that could push travel even further way.

Our panel. There is rising support for a faster exit from lockdown.

With the NHS apparently out of danger, and daily cases in decline, the fear factor is clearly falling – at least, if one’s measure is how people are behaving.

Trump’s brutal response to the riots puts him closer to the people than his liberal opponents

American liberals have a fervent belief in equality, and will do everything they can for the American people short of spending any time with them.

The second wave is treated as inevitable. But Europe suggests otherwise.

Nothing is certain in this crisis; not even the possibility of another large outbreak, as Switzerland and Denmark suggest.

For the second month running, our panel’s confidence in Johnson’s handling of Covid-19 falls. Though it’s still at 70 per cent.

The drop roughly parallels the polling fall in confidence among the general public – though a seven out of ten rating is healthy enough.

China 1) Our survey. 85 per cent of Party members support the Government’s Hong Kong passport rights extension plan.

Given the sensitivity of the public to mass immigration, what’s the explanation for our panel’s return above? 

China 3) Why the stand-off over Hong Kong and the coming clash over Huawei matters

We will be re-running the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chairman’s piece for us above each day this week.

Our survey. Seven out of ten Tory members back Cummings.

And it makes next to no difference whether or not the question asked is about resignation or dismissal.

The BBC and politics. Maitlis’ Cummings intro was out of order. And so too, in its time, was Neil’s denunciation of ISIS.

As one side becomes more sensitive to perceived breaches of neutrality, the other becomes less willing or able to accept when it has erred.

Nissan and Sunderland: Another blow for Project Fear

With Brexit negotiations intensifying, the carmakers’ decision to focus on Sunderland manufacturing gives David Frost great leverage.

Why the Cabinet Office will be in the dock for Covid failures when the inquiry comes. As will Sedwill.

The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.

The tragedy of Coronavirus death rates. And the problem of statistically selective narratives.

The FT claims the UK has the worst in the world. But that’s only if you ignore the other ways it can be measured.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Prime Minister did not stoop and could not conquer

He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.

School re-openings. Williamson is making his case without a taranatula perched on his shoulder.

Enraged voters are not his target: he is zeroing in on the mass of questioning teachers and parents.