Iain Dale: The Williamson I got to know

I found an incredibly likeable person – but although he knuckled down and scored some successes, he was better placed as Chief Whip than Defence Secretary.

Andrew Goodfellow: I know all about attack dossiers. Here’s why Tory leadership candidates shouldn’t deploy them on their rivals.

The only person who would gain is Corbyn. Instead, let sunshine win the day – make a positive case for yourself and your vision for the nation.

Nabil Najjar and Luke Springthorpe: How Conservative Progress aims to revive the Tory grassroots

Our conferences give members the chance to speak and put questions to senior Party figures, and our training equips activists to take on the Left.

Dan Boucher: Is it time for a Leadsom Convention?

Our system needs a means of ensuring that a Remain Parliament honours a Leave referendum – and that this principle is applied more broadly.

WATCH: Leadsom assures Marr that a “no deal” would “not be nearly as bad as many like to think it would be”

“We would survive and thrive there is no doubt about that….the civil service have done an amazing job of ensuring we minimise the problems.”

Iain Dale: Something has changed this week. Since May announced talks with Corbyn. I can smell it.

Plus: What would it take to get the Cabinet leavers to resign? Clarke’s Maastricht Treaty Customs Union moment. And: in defence of Robbie Gibb.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Leadsom is unbelievably rude to Clarke while Letwin leads a conservative revolution

The Leader of the House is as cloth-eared as Jeremy Corbyn when it comes to dealing with her own backbenchers.

Chris White: A guide to today’s indicative votes – and their significance, as the legislature seizes power from the executive

This week has seen Parliament grab control, and this has serious implications for the practices of responsible government.

Coronation (headless) chicken

May should go in mid-April. But attempts to appoint a successor uncontested will only stir further chaos in the hen coop.

Iain Dale: Zombie May and her Zombie Cabinet

Leadsom seems to be the only one with lead in her pencil. All she needs now is to grow big fat hairy balls.

WATCH: Bercow implores MPs to “raise the level” of debate… then orders Leadsom to sit down

The Speaker offers a distillation of his signature style.

WATCH: Leadsom confirms plans for the third Meaningful Vote

“The precise nature and timing of this debate will to some extent depend on the outcomes of this week’s European Council.”

The 187 Tory MPs, including six Cabinet Ministers, who voted against the Prime Minister’s motion to extend Article 50

Almost two thirds of the parliamentary Conservative Party opposed it, alongside the DUP and a handful of others.

The five Secretaries of State who supported the Green Amendment

As a free vote, this may give us the clearest picture of the divisions at the very top of the Party over how to approach Brexit.

Iain Dale: Whatever happens with Brexit this month, May must go. And quickly.

Plus: What anti-Muslim prejudice? I know of a Tory branch that moved their meeting from a pub in an attempt to make a Muslim member feel more comfortable.