Profile: Ben Gummer – the most important Minister whose role you’ve never heard of
Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.
Profile: Sajid Javid, whose quest to build more homes is also a fight for his political future
Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.
Interview: Philip Davies on standing up for his views – “The place where bullying happens most is in the House of Commons”
The Shipley MP says his views on women and equality are reasonable, and that Labour is shaping a culture that seeks to silence dissent.
Profile: the alt-right – Trump’s allies in his victory over Clinton
Together they turned the liberal establishment’s own weapons against it
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.
Profile: Keir Starmer, leading for Labour on Brexit. A first-class lawyer – but can he be a first-class politician?
The former Director of Public Prosecutions did not serve under either Blair or Brown, and is hard to place in the strife which rends the Labour Party.
Profile: The Corbynites who are killing the Labour Party
Their hatred of Blairite careerists leads them to see all Corbyn’s limitations as virtues.
Profile: Guy Verhofstadt – not the devil, but an imp (and a European federalist)
The true believer whose appointment to represent the European Parliament in the Brexit negotiations is “an act of war”.
Profile: Gavin Williamson, the “baby-faced assassin” who is now Chief Whip
He has seamlessly made the transition from Cameron to May.
Profile: Rasputin – the drunken, illiterate, dissolute mystic to whom the Prime Minister’s co-Chief of Staff is now compared
He had a magnetic hold over a powerful woman, and was murdered by a member of the Bullingdon Club. We trust that no precedent has been set.
Profile: Philip Hammond, the Goth with “lovely long silky hair” who became Chancellor
He supports single market membership and is unlikely to enthuse about an industrial strategy. Meet the man who could make or mar May’s premiership.
Profile: Nick Timothy, May’s thinker-in-chief and co-Chief of Staff
He represents a proudly provincial conservatism, in which the condition of the striving classes, and of the industries on which they depend, matter a hundred times more than the City of London.
Profile: Driverless cars, so tempting to politicians who want to look modern
These futuristic gadgets can help fill a Queen’s Speech, but in real life, drivers will want to stay in control – at least for the time being.
Profile: Neil Hamilton, UKIP’s genial but shamelessly selfish new leader in Cardiff Bay
He used to be a Conservative MP, was destroyed by the cash-for-questions affair, but has risen, quite unexpectedly, from the political grave.
Profile: Anna Soubry, the street fighter emerging as a leader of the Tory Left
Some on the Right hate and despise her. But her admirers outnumber her detractors. Even if they do not agree with her opinions, they like the way she fights her corner.