Trick or treat? The Halloween extension.
At first glance, it looks like just about the worst timetable for achieving Brexit – which must now be seriously in doubt.
Screwing Scruton
His sacking is more evidence, were it needed, of the tensions that tear at the Tory coalition – and threaten to render it unsustainable.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: If the Prime Minister is so lifeless in the House, how can she carry conviction in Brussels?
May claimed the Government “will make a success of whatever the situation is in relation to Brexit”.
The ERG. Will it escape Tory gravity, and soar to another planet? Or sink back into Celestial Body Conservative?
It has grown from a group small enough to meet for breakfasts to one large enough to have its own whipping. That last feature is unsustainable.
The Cabinet must tell May to go
No way forward is without risk at this stage. But the least hazardous course is for the Party to step out soon with a new leader.
Be cautious when a watchdog bites its rivals
Fleet Street, normally a justified sceptic of men from the ministry controlling what people publish, is an enthusiast of regulating social media giants.
Does the Conservative Party have enough money to fight a European election campaign?
The Party’s Chief Executive has briefed the Cabinet that there are insufficient funds to fight a snap General Election. How bare is the cupboard?
Inviting Labour into Downing Street has proved costly, and benefited only Corbyn
Was it really worth handing the Opposition leader a boost to his legitimacy in this way?
Has May just delivered the coup de grâce to any imminent hope of reviving Stormont?
If she insists on a functioning Assembly before a no-deal Brexit, why on earth would Sinn Fein oblige her?
Newport West’s by-election. Where is the voter uprising against establishment elites?
This isn’t even that event of journalistic legend – small earthquake, not many dead. It is a tremor that barely registers on the seismograph.
Andrew Gimson’s Lords sketch: Peers warn that the Cooper Bill threatens the constitution
Lord Owen said the country sees a London elite trying to stop Brexit.
Our survey. Almost eight in ten Party members are against the Prime Minister’s new Brexit appoach
If our survey is anything to go by, Party members are marginally even more hostile to it than to her talks with the Labour leader.
Just under three-quarters of respondents to our survey oppose May’s talks with Corbyn
That’s roughly the same proportion as the record total that believes she should announce her resignation as Party leader.
Our snap survey. A record total of seven out of ten Party members say that May should announce now that she will resign.
This finding comes from members of the same panel that backed her deal by 60 per cent to 36 per cent less than a week ago.
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Tory MPs decide this is not the right evening to defenestrate the PM
But there was also a sense, outside the meeting of the 1922 Committee, that the revolution has only been postponed.