Hunt has become the longest serving Health Secretary – we will miss him when he’s gone

He has been more robust than any if his predecessors in challenging NHS failings. Prime Ministers seem to have given up trying to sack him.

WATCH: Lansley says the Health Service needs an extra £5bn a year

“Towards the end of this Parliament, at the point at which our contributions to the European Union reduce, there is an expectation on the part of the public and the NHS that there should be an increase.”

May’s schools speech. She takes on a mass of vested interests. But can she beat them all at once?

Opponents of grammar schools, some supporters of them, a slice of the independent sector, secularists…all have reason not to be best pleased with her plans.

The Conservative Research Department always wins. A guide to Downing Street’s top team.

It’s predominately a tight-knit group of former staffers who’ve worked together before. No change there. But it has a more provincial and state school feel.

Rob Lyons: Public health puritanism cuts across party lines

There are liberal-minded left-wingers on the right side of the fight for freedom, and patrician Tories on the wrong.

Daniel Hannan MEP: Cameron lowers renegotiation expectations in the hope of selling a paltry change as a triumph

It won’t work – not least because Andrew Lansley accidentally leaked the plan over the summer.

New Conservative peers – full list

Plus links to the full dissolution peerages and honours details.

Barbara Harpham: Transparency is the right path for healthcare innovation

The Government has made great strides toward making the NHS truly accountable to patients, but can and must go further still.

Hugh Byrne: It’s time to tear down the cult of Bevan in the NHS

It was the wartime Minister for Health, the Conservative Party’s Sir Henry Willink, who actually published the 1944 White Paper in response titled ‘A National Health Service’.

Interview: Jeremy Hunt – “I’m the first Health Secretary to speak out about poor care in the NHS”

“Polly Toynbee hasn’t written about me for six months…Mind you, if you write that, there will be a stinker of an article.”

Now Mark Hoban is to leave the Commons. Which other able former Minister will be next?

People of ability are quitting and the pool of experience is shrinking.

The Commons can’t afford to lose people like Hugh Robertson

Parliament and people are paying a price for the shift to professional politics.

Thomas Cawston: A reform that will help the NHS and patients which comes into effect today

In some cases, patients will gain more choice over the GP they use – which is why this change should be only a start.

Profile: Jeremy Hunt, the restorer of calm at Health. But will it last the winter?

He has dropped from view because he seems to have achieved the improbable feat, for a Conservative, of promoting change without picking a fight with NHS staff.

NHS reform. The problem wasn’t the plan. It was the bill.

The story of the fight over Andrew Lansley’s measure – in which this site had a hand.