Next Tory leader poll. The tax credits row hits Osborne. His vote slumps as Boris’s soars.
The Chancellor’s share is down by nine per cent and the Mayor’s up by seven per cent.
Interview: “The power of such laws is that they change attitudes.” Hague on the 20th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.
Opposed by Clarke and Heseltine, supported by Lilley and Portillo and backed by John Major as Prime Minister, it was the former Tory leader’s “proudest achievement”.
Jeremy Hunt MP: Protected pay. Reduced maximum hours. It’s time to put the record straight on our offer to junior doctors
At hospitals like the Salford Royal and Northumbria, where they have already introduced seven-day services, it’s staff who are the greatest advocates for change.
Rebecca Coulson: Why we have to find a way to intervene
Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but sometimes, it’s simply wrong for the people of one country – or many – to sit by and watch those of another suffer.
Henry Hill: Grayling and Duncan Smith exchange fire with SNP
Also: Crabb warns constitutional fixation risks paralysing Welsh politics; Scottish Labour splits party on Trident; Scottish education policy under attack; and more.
Hague’s great achievement. The 20th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act takes place next week.
It deserves to be honoured as part of the great tradition of Conservative social reforming legislation.
Nick Timothy: Dividing lines and binary choices: how the tax credit changes went wrong
The Government finds itself boxed in by its own decisions.
Mark Field MP: Judicial consent for surveillance should satisfy all but the most privacy-obsessed libertarians
A row over who should authorise investigatory powers hangs over the draft legislation the Government is set to publish.
Our poll. Over two thirds of Party members ready to vote to leave the EU
The number of those who declare themselves likely to vote for Remain falls to a quarter.
Nadhim Zahawi MP: Why this One Nation Government is right to take new measures to tackle discrimination
In his speech, the Prime Minister cited instances of black people changing their names just to find work by ‘whitening their CVs’.
Paul Abbott: Starvation. Cannibalism. Millions dead. The horror of the communism which Corbyn’s spin master praised
Meanwhile, the country endured not only Stalingrad and Stalino, but also Stalinabad, Stalinsk, Stalinogorsk, Stalinskoye, Stalinski, Staliniri & Mount Stalin.
Howard Flight: How to strengthen the incentive to save
These proposals recommend a single, national rate of Government pension matching contribution for money purchase schemes.
Lord Ashcroft: The Unexpected Mandate. My review of the 2015 election and the unusual Parliament that preceded it
The central insight of Smell The Coffee was the critical importance of a party’s brand, the overall way voters see it. This has remained a central theme of my work.
To deliver 517 manifesto pledges, Cameron needs to share power. Here are three ways of doing so.
Pledges on this scale cannot be delivered in this Commons without Conservative consensus. They can only be charmed – not bullied – onto the statute book.
Tobias Ellwood MP: Welcome, President Nazarbayev. Why this Government wants Kazakhstan to be Britain’s partner of choice
It will take forward further reforms in governance, rule of law and human rights – all areas in which we are already providing support.