Andrew Wood: We can’t keep running down the Navy by stealth, and pretending that nothing has changed
The most dramatic option is to cut whole areas of capability in order to focus on the remaining core ones.
The Autumn Statement – and why forecasting a cost of Brexit is bunk
The OBR’s assessment is “consistent with a range of possible outcomes that we can keep under review in future forecasts”. In other words, it’s sorry – but it hasn’t a clue.
The Autumn Statement. Giveaways from Hammond this morning. The takeaways will come will this afternoon.
The Chancellor’s big task today is to give business a sense of the Government’s plan for Britain post-Brexit.
Profile: Damian Green – for whom today’s Universal Credit announcement is an early win
The Work and Pensions Secretary, sacked by Cameron, is back under May – and helping to reverse Osborne’s clampdown on welfare for working people.
Rebecca Coulson: Does voting Trump mean that you must be racist and sexist?
Perhaps the 60 million Americans who backed him simply thought other factors were more important. But is that judgement bigoted in itself?
Lord Ashcroft: Now the Left blames the voters for America’s result – an arrogance that helps to show why it lost
Like the Conservatives after 1997, Corbyn’s Labour and some Remainers, America’s Democrats are failing to learn from their mistakes.
Henry Hill: Brokenshire revives dispute with Dublin over contested fishing waters
Also: Demands for probe into expenses of SNP MPs as costs soar; economist says Wales no longer ‘significantly underfunded’; and more.
Trump has it the wrong way round. Farage should be America’s Ambassador to Britain.
We propose a compromise.
Iain Duncan Smith: Continuity Remain are fighting a desperate rearguard action to undermine the Leave vote
They must not be allowed to succeed.
Steve Hughes: It’s time to take the Conservative approach to welfare beyond simply sounding tough
A lot has changed since 2010. The Autumn Statement should reflect the new financial and political reality.
Hammond’s debut. His big task is to persuade business that an Open Britain lies ahead after we leave the EU
Circumstances dictate a suck-it-and-see Autumn Statement – but also one that can transcend its own caution by pointing to a visionary landscape ahead.
Clare Marx: How to make the best of Brexit for the NHS
We’re heard much about potential problems, but rather less about the significant opportunities that leaving the EU brings for improving a number of areas of healthcare safety.
Andrew Kennedy: Who were the best Conservative Party Chairmen in modern times?
Lord Woolton (pictured right) was the greatest-ever, rebuilding the Conservatives after the war. But here are my favourite five.
May must act now to prevent a war of attrition sabotaging Brexit
Die-hard Remainers have a clear strategy. The Prime Minister must move swiftly and decisively to defeat it.
John Penrose: Enough of doubt and division on leaving the EU. Let’s work together and get it done well.
As MPs, we have to react positively, optimistically and maturely as we try to make sense of the mandate given to us by the British people.