Iain Duncan Smith: Family breakdown is too big a problem to ignore any longer
Children lose out, and there’s a knock-on elder care, too.
Andrew Green: Why there will be no Brexit cliff edge for EU employees in Britain
Employers will have to adjust pay and conditions, but they will have time to do so.
There should be no room for Putin apologism on the right
The fantasy that the Kremlin is more sinned against than sinning was once the preserve of Corbyn’s hard left. We should stop the rot.
Nicky Morgan: Just what does the way in which we’re dealing with refugee children say about our values as a Party?
As a party known for strong economic management, we must work doubly hard to avoid appearing to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Chris Whitehouse: Pharmacy workers – and a new threat to religious freedom from equality laws meant to protect it
Careers in the profession could be closed to people of faith if the General Pharmaceutical Council gets it way.
“Labour will win in Stoke, LibDems could come second.” File this prediction away for use on the night.
Whatever happens, the Conservative consensus is that the Party is pushing less hard in the city than in Copeland.
Jake Berry: Let’s extend the hand of friendship to our Commonwealth friends at our border
Starting with creating a designated channel for them, and continuing by heavily promoting the Registered Travellers Service.
Robert Goodwill: We do not want to incentivise perilous journeys to Europe, and play into the hands of the traffickers.
I’m tired of being lectured by Labour politicians. When they were in government, around 800 refugees were resettled each year. We are doing five times that.
Councils are to blame for the failure to take more refugees
Those directing their moral outrage at Amber Rudd have the wrong target.
James Croft: Is May’s Government junking consumer choice in education?
We are increasingly seeing evidence of re-nationalisation coming back.
Hodge’s finger tip control
Council leaders will draw a moral from those mis-sent text messages: that if Ministers are put under enough pressure, they will cough up the loot.
Iain Dale: What I saw and heard at the Conservatives’ Black and White Ball, sorry, Party
Plus: Sarah Palin to Canada, the Brexit Bill to the Lords, and Clive Lewis to the backbenches. And: when sorry isn’t the hardest word.
Matthew Barrett: Don’t be so eager to scrap the Lords, Conservative MPs. We may need it one day to check Labour tyranny.
What a farce it would be if, in attempting to secure Brexit, we booted out one of the institutions that makes us exceptional.
Ten reasons why the whips were able to crush the rebels
Most of the latter are used to trying to stop rebellions, not start them.
The Brexit Bill passes the Commons unamended by 494 votes to 122. Clive Lewis quits the Shadow Cabinet.
The largest Conservative rebellion totalled just three MPs. Meanwhile, 52 Labour MPs defied Corbyn.