Don’t expect Merkel to save Britain’s Brexit bacon

But Germany faces conundrums of its own: how to save the euro, and how to lead in Europe without frightening everyone.

WATCH: “A third runway is undeliverable” – the Foreign Secretary criticises the Government’s Heathrow decision

Johnson warns that London is at risk of becoming “the city of planes”.

Profile: Keir Starmer, leading for Labour on Brexit. A first-class lawyer – but can he be a first-class politician?

The former Director of Public Prosecutions did not serve under either Blair or Brown, and is hard to place in the strife which rends the Labour Party.

Chris Stevens: Working alongside Conservatives in the referendum campaign convinced me I should join them

Now I have switched from UKIP to the Conservative Group on the excellent Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

Andrew Green: The EU and migration. Work permits are the way forward.

The introduction of a work permit scheme that confines EU migration to skilled employment would by our calcuation reduce it net by approximately 100,000 a year.

Hammond climbs, Rudd falls in our Cabinet League Table

The Chancellor’s position recovers despite his advocacy of the Single Market, whilst the Home Secretary falls from 11th to 23rd.

Iain Dale: UKIP is in danger of becoming a laughing-stock

I quiz David Davis. I speak for freedom. And: I will not back down over our book about Hillsborough by Norman Bettison.

Ten snapshots of the Conservative conference

To turn Lord Denning on his head, Brexit is like “an incoming tide flowing up the estuaries of England”.

Gareth Bacon: Khan needs to get serious about rail devolution

The Mayor of London is still in campaign mode – he should switch to governing mode.

Britain the soft-power superpower of global liberalism. Johnson’s Conference speech: full text

“And up the creeks and inlets of every continent on earth there go the gentle kindly gunboats of British soft power.”

Britain after Brexit. A vision of a Global Britain. May’s Conference speech: full text

“It is not going to be a “Norway model”…It is going to be an agreement between an independent United Kingdom and the European Union.”

The moral core of the case for overseas aid

The instinct of our readers is that the justification of development spending is not that it will have benefits for Britain, but that it is good in itself.

WATCH: Johnson visits Syrian refugee camp near Gaziantep, Turkey

“I see here a huge chain of actions and support by the UK to try to remedy the Syrian crisis.”

WATCH: The Article 50 debate should not be allowed to drag on, Johnson tells Marr

“We’re not going to do it before Christmas,” the Foreign Secretary says.

A day to stand back from the fray, and marvel at the stupendous fact of Brexit

You sometimes stand so close to something that you can’t really see it. So it is with the staggering implictations of what Britain did on June 23rd.