Andrew Gimson’s Lords sketch: Peers warn that the Cooper Bill threatens the constitution

Lord Owen said the country sees a London elite trying to stop Brexit.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May is now well enough to be angry

The Prime Minister is also astute enough to get Gove to make the case for Meaningful Vote Three.

This hatchet job on Corbyn fails to explain why so many people voted for him

Bower writes him off as a loser, which is perhaps what he will end up being. But he did much better at the last general election than the commentariat expected.

Robert Halfon: Now is the time for Common Market 2.0, and an EFTA-type plan for Brexit

Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes

Never have the Prime Minister’s colleagues looked more despondent, but her backbenchers refrained from trying to defenestrate her.

Phillip Lee: Dear Sophie – don’t quit the Conservative Party, stay and fight against Brextremism

The former Justice Minister writes an open letter to a young activist, urging her to reconsider her defection to the Liberal Democrats.

The Tory Left: not always Out, not necessarily Loud, but definitely Proud – and a growing force

A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.

Profile: Matt Hancock, the Osborne acolyte who managed to survive and prosper

This ambitious 39-year-old is grappling valiantly with the Leveson problem, and no one does a better digital transformation.

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

Dan Pitt: Green politics can be deeply Tory – in its sense of conservation, piety, and obligation to those living and dead

Part of settling down and marking time, as Roger Scruton would say, is protecting our environment. Doing so is an unchosen obligation upon us.

Profile: The Jews in Britain

By inflicting such pain, Corbyn has compelled a discussion. But the Jewish contribution to Britain should not be reduced to mere political calculation.

Rahima Khan: Why I’m Running for Mayor of Newham

Conservatives have a proud record of social reform. I want to break down the barriers to people escaping poverty.

Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic

Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.

What is a Conservative? Answers to Soubry on a postcard, please.

P.S: Only one Tory Prime Minister in recent years was “taken down” by Tory MPs. Clue: it was neither Major nor Cameron.

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.