Three tests that the Conservative Party’s inquiry into the Clarke allegations must pass

It will clearly be unsatisfactory if Lord Feldman and others are not interviewed at all, and that he himself will submit evidence to people who report to him.

Cameron must rediscover the will to wage war

The Prime Minister’s insistence on Parliamentary consent – which he does not need – for operational decisions is crippling Britain’s capacity to act decisively.

20 Conservative MPs revolt over tax credits. Five of them are 2015 intake members.

The number of rebels has risen; it is concentrated among post-2005 intake Tories, and in seats that are either marginal or were until recently.

From Reggie to Dessie: How the Speaker returned a favour to Mrs Balls

Plus: Soames’s “serious environmental work” (i.e: shooting). Brothers Cash and Jenkin lose the plot. The agony of Kevan Jones. And: I am shaken by a Psychedelic Orgasm.

Blunt’s victory is an emphatic win for the pro-Palestinian cause

Jesse Norman wins Culture, Julian Lewis Defence…and Meg Hillier is the new Chairman of the Public Accounts Committtee.

The Party should apologise to Timothy and Parkinson – and put them both back on the Candidates’ List

The Public Administration Committee concludes that a key Party instruction to the two SpAds was in breach of the Code of Conduct that binds them.

Reggie to Dessie: Does your NOTBUM look big in this?

Including the latest from the rolling future leadership hustings at the Pale, Male and stale Dining Club.

After the Wharton Bill on Europe, a Wharton Vote on England?

Downing Street is mulling a means of putting Labour on the spot. How inspiring it would be to see evidence that it’s more than a tactical wheeze.

Scotland 1) Cameron mustn’t let up on Devo Max if its people vote No

The Party’s plan must be pressed on Labour & the LibDems. If Scotland votes No and the Prime Minister backs off it, the SNP will be back for a second push.

Profile: John Bercow, one of the best Speakers of modern times, but also by far the rudest

The case for Bercow as a great reformer tends to be obscured by his astonishingly bad manners.

Nigel Evans elected to the 1922 Committee executive

All the posts were elected unopposed – another sign of Tory MPs’ growing discipline.

Cameron tries to avoid being dragged into Blair’s war

His assurances about the publication of the Chilcot Report are designed to calm those calling for answers.

Iain Dale: Vince Cable – the worst Business Secretary since Stephen Byers

Plus: Two funerals and me. My life as an Agony Uncle. Why Grayling is wrong about prison books. Sympathy for Mark Menzies. And finally: My mother’s pride.

How Cameron and the rebels can kiss and make up

Downing Street must play its own part in making peace with the Euro-sceptics.

Redwood: 2010 intake Tory MPs in marginals are Euro-rebels too

The senior backbencher writes that those who support such initiatives as Bernard Jenkin’s recent letter aren’t “the old and grumpy”.