Iain Dale: Carrie Symonds is well placed to take a view on Tory communications. But she won’t want to become the story.
If ministers won’t appear on shows such mine to explain policy, who do they think is going to do it for them?
Simon Clarke: Electric heat – the oven-ready renewable that’s right under our noses
Action on decarbonising heat so far is not nearly sufficient to meet our 2050 net zero target. But a potential solution is right under our noses.
Will Cummings quit? It’s Carrie Symonds v Vote Leave – as tensions over the Government’s future explode
Johnson can’t seem to manage with Vote Leave. But he may not be able to manage without them.
Stephen Booth: Brexit-related concerns about a Biden presidency are overblown. The reality is more nuanced.
From wanting to tackle climate change, to striving for greater security cooperation, the PM and US president share many of the same goals.
Gary Powell: How the Met went after Grimes – but turned a blind eye to incitement to murder the Prime Minister
The Government is turning a blind eye to self-evident politicisation – a miserable milestone in the Conservative Party’s masochistic colonisation by woke ideology.
Caino-ho-ho
Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.
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Liam Fox: How MPs can better hold Ministers to account over their handling of the Coronavirus
We need more information, transparency and scrutiny. A committee on the model of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards is required.
Daniel Hannan: It’s time to explode the myth of Trump and his unique appeal
The fundamental premise of Trumpism, namely that globalisation is bad for ordinary people, is false.
Ryan Bourne: A British overspill from America’s result. Why the debate on the right over economics will now intensify.
Stateside narratives have a tendency to be imported into UK politics – one of the knock-on effects of this messy Presidential election outcome.
Biden is a conservative – succeeding not because he is old, but because he is old-fashioned
In his speech, he quoted from the Bible, in its best and most traditional version: yet more evidence of his own conservatism.
Radical: It’s time the Women and Equalities Committee was replaced
It has shown itself incapable of advocating for the one group specifically named in its title – women – and is too emblematic of identity politics.
Liz Truss: The naysayers doubted the speed of the UK’s deal with Japan. But it’s here – and takes us closer to more.
This agreement paves the way for what could be the most exciting step yet for Global Britain’s independent trading story.
There is more to America’s elections than Biden, and the Grand Old Party is in fine electoral form
The Conservatives grew apart from the Republicans post-Major, but now is the time to start quietly re-engaging.
Bernard Jenkin: How the power of local teamwork and public support can make test and trace work
The key lesson from the Cambridge scheme is the importance of public support. Eighty per cent of students volunteered to take part.