MPs ETC

Is the Conservative Party’s membership growing? If so, how fast?

Lewis has adopted a wise policy of transparency. That offers a chance to ditch guesstimates.

Exclusive: Conservative candidate selections open for first tranche of target seats

Applications are now open for Stroud, Warwick & Leamington, Oxford West & Abingdon, and Crewe & Nantwich.

Andrew RT Davies forced out as Welsh Tory leader. A struggle begins to ensure his successor is elected by Party members.

The flashpoint appears to have been the Brexit supporter’s comments about Airbus. His replacement must be chosen by a full democratic ballot.

The self-styled Disruptor-in-Chief speaks out. Truss says higher taxes would be “a complete contradiction” of the Brexit vote. Her speech.

Jokes at Gove’s expense apart, it’s a call for liberty, spending control, lower taxes, less waste and free trade.

The eight Conservative MPs who voted against Heathrow expansion

Six were from west or north London constituencies, plus Windsor’s Adam Afriyie and Sir David Amess of Southend West.

“Living standards rose more quickly in the five years from 2011 than in the five years from 2002”. Discuss.

Some counter-intuitive, or at least counter-conventional, findings from a recent IFS report.

Hollingbery replaces Hands. Ultimate safe choice.

He was Theresa May’s PPS when she was Home Secretary, and has also been her PPS since she became Prime Minister.

Hands resigns from the Government over Heathrow – could he be teeing up a mayoral bid?

The former Trade Minister has not just put Boris Johnson in a tight spot, but might have just made a high-profile entry into the race for his old job.

Six Tory MPs backed the Grieve amendment, and four Labour MPs supported the Government

Does the narrowness of the win signal further problems to come, or has the Government headed off the revolt?

Davis’s written ministerial statement on what a motion in neutral terms means

This form of words citing the Speaker is the gambit by which ministers and whips hope to avert a Grieve-led rebellion today.

“This must be a plan that ensures every penny is well spent.” May’s NHS speech – full text

“It is a problem that a typical NHS Clinical Commissioning Group negotiates over 200 different legal contracts with other, different, parts of the NHS. It is too bureaucratic.”