Partygate and Beergate. Is Starmer’s surest way of gaining Johnson’s resignation to quit himself?

Hypocrisy tops the list of dangers for a politician – and Labour’s leader is dangerously exposed.

Badenoch, Visibly Conservative

The Government gains from her making a Tory case on disparities, which too few of her colleagues are willing to do.

Robert Buckland: This focus on shrinking the state is out of date. Voters have moved on from the 1980s. So should our party.

Voters want toughness on crime and illegal immigration, plus greater investment into public services and local communities.

Richard Brabner: How Disraeli’s One Nation vision can bolster the university sector

Unlocking potential and expanding opportunity is a cornerstone to a just society.

Daniel Hannan: Through their intimidating fervour, woke hardliners are pushing our Enlightenment values to the brink

The inquisitors of Tate Britain have deemed Hogarth problematic. Is no one safe from their dangerous ideology?

David Willetts: New businesses, faster connections, better data, tighter security. There are so many reasons to commit to Space.

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Prime Minister’s boldest move to get us ahead in the new space race – the One Web deal.

Adrian Lee: Why Russell Kirk, the Tory bohemian, deserves to be read and treasured by all Conservatives

He believed Conservatism is not a political system, but “a way of looking at civic social order.”

Interview with Kwasi Kwarteng: “My job is to make us not lose sight of the fact that we are Conservatives”

He says that road haulage interests are trying to revive the pre-Brexit economy – but that the Government will stand firm for higher wages.

Johnson now has the serious task of restoring pride to the working class, failed by Labour

David Skelton catalogues the snobbish abuse heaped by progressive intellectuals on workers in neglected towns.

Alistair Lexden: At the top of the greasy pole – Disraeli 140 years on

His first premiership was accidental and cut extremely short by Gladstone – but ‘Dizzy’ did manage to make the Queen a Tory.

From Walpole to Johnson, the rude, original vigour of the Prime Minister and the Commons have survived

A new study by Anthony Seldon of the office of Prime Minister gives too little credit to the many among its 55 holders whom he dismisses as failures.

Oborne condemns Johnson as a liar – and cannot understand why many voters believe the Prime Minister is telling the truth

This book exemplifies the addiction to indignant moralising which blinds so many political commentators to the true nature of their own country.

Alistair Lexden: The Conservatives and the Carlton Club – in partnership for nearly 200 years

From Wellington to Johnson, this institution has managed to keep itself at the heart of Tory politics.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson beams like a schoolboy who has got his hands on an enormous cake

Like his most witty and nimble predecessor, Disraeli, Johnson finds that a majority is always better than the best repartee.

What Thatcher’s response to the AIDS crisis teaches us about tackling the present pandemic

The proposals published today to make England the first country to end new cases of HIV fit within a Tory tradition of pragmatic health policy.