Fox tops our next leader poll – but with the joint lowest frontrunner share on record
The survey is in flux and is set to continue so.
Ideas for Party Reform 4) Reforming candidate selection
The processs in the safer seats is becoming like speed dating for a marriage that may last 20 years or more.
Lord Ashcroft: “If Britain leaves, we’ll be left behind with all these losers” – what the Dutch make of Brexit
For some, a Leave vote in Britain would raise questions about their own country’s position: “If they go, we should leave too”.
Garvan Walshe: Aleppo’s peril shows how we misread the failure in Iraq
The lesson is not that military intervention never works – it is that it will fail strategically without proper reconstruction.
Osborne is performing a high-wire act, and it’s getting breezy
Clouds are gathering on the EU referendum and the global economy.
Brexiteers should stop hoping they will be saved by Boris
The Mayor of London will not admit it, but he is likely to vote to remain in the European Union.
Ideas for Party Reform 3) Party Conference: lower costs, more debate
We have lessons to learn from our sister parties in Europe.
Andrew Haldenby: Why now is the time to rally round Jeremy Hunt
Downing Street and Conservative MPs should not abandon this reforming Health Secretary under pressure from the BMA and the unions.
Henry Hill: Now Sturgeon accuses Tories of sabotaging talks
Also: Senior Plaid AM refuses to rule out Conservative pact; Villiers pressed for historical investigations cash; Labour try to pressure SNP with tax pledge; Welsh UKIP in turmoil; and more.
How prison isn’t working
A stress on character is at the heart of the reforms which Cameron described yesterday and which Gove is implementing.
Ideas for Party Reform 2) Ring-fence spending for the longer-term
That’s to say, everything except election-fighting: increasing membership. Candidate selection. Targeting development seats. Growing support among ethnic minority voters.
Nick Timothy: We are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions about child abuse allegations
We should deal with police incompetence, not make it harder to secure the prosecution of real criminals.
Chris Grayling: Labour have demonstrated their inability to take power seriously
The new leadership’s ideas look like the first sketches of a manifesto that’s more Socialist Worker than New Labour.
Matthew Goodwin: Mapping the Leave-voting heartlands
England’s east and southern coasts; parts of Yorkshire, the Midlands and Cumbria; bits of Wales – in all these, support for Brexit is especially strong.
Tory rebels are bought off – as Clark announces more money for local councils
Osborne finds £416 million to ease the pain. ConHome coverage quoted in the Commons.