Our snap survey. The panel backs Williamson over May – up to a point.
A plurality clearly think that her charge against him of leaking National Security Council discussions is unproven – if not unjustified altogether.
The local election aftermath. May and Corbyn are like two spooked children, drawing nearer for comfort as the thunder rages.
Will they now seek to appease turbulent voters by rushing her-deal-plus-the-Customs-Union through the Commons?
The local election results so far. Voters turn on the two big parties over Brexit, and say: a plague on both your houses.
To date, these elections are raising strategic questions above May’s leadership and Corbyn’s policy – especially over a second referendum.
Risking our security. Risking our alliances. Opening our infrastructure up to China is a risk too far.
There are no certainties – at least, until it’s too late – so the UK should err on the side of caution.
Williamson. He’s gone away – but he won’t shut up.
What’s that you say? That what really matters is the Huawei decision itself? Quite so. And on that, we have an uncomfortable feeling that he’s right.
The former Defence Secretary’s side of the story. Sedwill “was out to get him”.
His friends say that the two clashed from the beginning of the Defence Secretary’s appointment – and suggest a vendetta.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: The unbearable spectacle of a tormented Prime Minister pretending things are fine
May’s bogus jollity has become intolerable.
In Dudley, I watch local Tories trying to run on their record, not the Prime Minister’s
Labour is nowhere much to be seen – but the national picture makes the task of winning this council back from it far harder.
Don’t be spun before Thursday’s results
They will doubtless be very bad for the Conservatives – but perhaps not as dire as some of the worst forecasts for the Party would have it.
The loss of May’s fracking tsar illustrates a decaying will to govern
The Government’s combination of pro-shale rhetoric and highly restrictive regulation could almost be calculated to please nobody.
For a long time, the polls were scarcely worth watching. Not any more.
Conservative MPs should not sit idly by as their party’s ratings sink to the mid-30s and below. There’s reason to think the change isn’t temporary.
May wants devolved government restored in Northern Ireland. But her No Deal policy creates an obstacle.
Sinn Fein knows that she wants it to help administer No Deal (in the unlikely prospect of that happening). Which is another incentive for it to stay out of office.
How far should Sedwill go over the Huawei leak?
He is perfectly entitled to crack down on leaks. But it’s worth bearing in mind that this one was scarcely unprecedented.
Vote Conservative in next week’s local elections
There is no good reason to punish local Tory candidates for Parliamentary manoeuverings and national Government failures.
Scruton – and the gulf between Conservatives in Parliament and conservatives outside it
The row over his sacking is a sign of a Party pulled in different directions by the way politics works – and by culture wars. Now a new competitor is knocking at the door.