Nicky Morgan: Not appointing the first woman Chief Whip last week was a missed opportunity to demonstrate change
This means not bullying people into voting for the Government, and not making grown men and women cry.
Ideas for the Budget 1) Peter Franklin: Wanted. A Marshall Plan for housing’s excluded generation.
To reduce investment in infrastructure or R&D is to take away from the future – just as surely as running up unsustainable debt does.
Hammond plumbs a record depth in our Cabinet League Table
It’s personal low in the run-up to the Budget. Meanwhile, Gove gets within a single point of beating Davidson for the top spot.
The new Conservative code of conduct. May should beware the revenge of men.
Most Tory MPs are male. Some don’t want a new complaints procedure – let alone two. Many feel vulnerable. This initiative brings new perils for the Prime Minister.
Our survey. It’s a thumbs-down from Party members to all the main candidates to succeed May
“None of the above” has the best part of a quarter of the vote. In the surveys since the election, it has successively come first, first, second, second – and now first again.
How did American conservatives end up with Trump?
A new book laments how the Right allowed this bully, fabulist and serial abuser of women to get to the White House.
Jeremy Hunt: Leadership is crucial. That’s the moral in the story of how Colchester NHS Trust was turned round.
Introducing a program of Ofsted-Style ratings and special measures into the NHS was controversial at the time. But the move has paid off.
Ashley Fox: I believe that there will be a Brexit deal. But Hammond must none the less use his Budget to prepare for the worst.
If the measures involved prove unnecessary, any money lost will be a fraction of the financial gains from having secured a mutually acceptable deal.
Should a man be forced to resign because he makes a woman “feel uncomfortable”?
If the standard is as it now appears to be, May will have difficulty finding enough male Ministers to replace all those she will be required to sack.
Iain Dale: My by-election bond with Fallon, who’s as human as the rest of us
Plus: What it was like being gay and a Tory – and being sexually assaulted in the “Brief Encounter” – during the vanished world of the 1990s.
James Arnell: Ready on Day One for Brexit 5) Reactions, refinements – and further work
I have said previously that I believe the Government has been pursuing a sensible negotiating approach to date. I maintain that view.
“The baby-faced assassin” is Defence Secretary. Has he already launched a coup?
Gavin Williamson is gifted, well-connected, successful – and not devoid of ambition. His former deputy is now Chief Whip. This is a controversial appointment.
If Fallon’s account of why he quit is right, his exit is a mistake – and May has set a precedent she may come to regret
If a Minister is guilty of bullying, harrassment or abuse, he should go. But behaviour that falls short of these should not require resignation.
Garvan Walshe: One hundred years on, the Balfour Declaration casts a shadow on Catalonia
Self-determination always involves conflict. In some cases that is justified, a conflict of necessity. In others it is not.
James Arnell: Ready on Day One for Brexit 4) Ensuring a competitive, outward-looking UK
After leaving the EU, we must ensure we are well-positioned in terms of regulation, taxation, immigration and – crucially – foreign languages.