Highlights

Plus: Making polite chat with Ted Heath. Musing on Boris Johnson’s future. Alan Clark on crack. And: My mucker Chuka.

…he would be back in the Cabinet. His decision to do so set the scene for a personal tragedy.

An unwise measure, exacerbated by economic growth and doomed by our membership of the EU combine to harm Theresa May’s ambitions.

Plus, should Nigel Farage be standing in Doncaster North rather than Thanet South?

The Smith Commission’s proposals suggest that Scotland’s referendum hasn’t settled the independence debate for a generation – as unionists hoped.

Canvassing in Hackney, where I used to live, I hungered for houses flying flags.

The third piece in our mini-series about the Chancellor explores how he has balanced austerity with social policy innovation.

It’s not just the ‘peripheral’ members of the Eurozone who are suffering.

The Chancellor’s new pitfall for Ed Balls is a good idea, but he could go much further.

The Home Secretary signalled intent, and her every move is thus pored over. Meanwhile, the Culture Secretary is quietly getting on with his job.

The second part of our pre-Autumn Statement mini-series on the Chancellor looks at his growing political focus on ordinary working people.

The airports adviser to the Mayor of London tells ConHome what “a Boris world” would look like.

Of course our efforts at Rochester weren’t helped by the glitches in the new CCHQ computer “Darth Vader”.

The former Prime Minister may stand down from Parliament next year. Here’s our attempt at a friendly send-off.

Owen Paterson’s speech was a thoroughly thought through plan for leaving the EU – and is thus inconsistent with Cameron’s referendum commitment.