How many Covid deaths do Ministers believe are acceptable?

The decision on lifting the remainder of lockdown will be based on many factors. But that’s the question at the heart of it.

The proposed foreign aid cut. Many Tories are against it. But Sunak has limited options as he tries to salvage the economy.

Reports suggest the Government is planning to reduce spending from 0.7 per cent of gross national income to 0.5 per cent.

Interview. Mel Stride – a damaged economy provides less for health and social care, “and that has a cost in lives”

The Chair of the Treasury Select Committee on its efforts to get information from the Government on the costs of restrictions to lives and livelihoods.

The most powerful player in Parliament on Coronavirus isn’t Brady, or even Johnson – but Starmer

Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.

A Conservative leader can afford to take on his left or his right – but not the 1922 Committee’s Executive

The Brady amendment is part of the developing story of a clash between leaders and backbenchers over Party management, culture and MPs’ status.

Both Johnson and the rebels want a compromise on the UK Internal Market Bill – so it looks as though we’ll get one

It looks as though we are in the territory supported by this site on Monday – Government support for something not unlike the Neill amendment.

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

Duncan Smith and Neill knighted

This is a carefully-calibrated balancing exercise that honours two rebels who have recently come home.

The 30 Conservative MPs who rebelled to vote for Letwin’s amendment

The list includes the three who resigned from the Government this evening – and Green, one of the Prime Minister’s oldest allies.

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

The 17 Conservative MPs who voted for the Grieve’s amendment today

The Speaker defied all precedent to allow an amendment which forces the Prime Minister to present the Commons with a ‘Plan B’ much sooner than planned.

The 20 Conservative MPs who voted for Cooper’s anti-No Deal Finance Bill amendment

The Government is suggesting that it will make little difference in practical terms – but opposed it for symbolic and political reasons.

The 22 Conservative MPs who have signed Spelman’s letter opposing No Deal

We also reproduce the full text of the letter itself.

The 25 Conservatives who voted with Grieve to block a No Deal Brexit – or try to

Some favour a Second Referendum; others, EEA membership. But they have combined to deal the Prime Minister a second bloody blow in a single day.

Terror of No Deal is driving May to risk splitting her Party and fall back on Labour MPs instead

That’s the single fact that stands out from the “low tragedy, high farce” of resignations, splits, divisions, principles and ambitions consuming British and Brexit politics.