Profile: Carrie Symonds, experienced Tory adviser turned Prime Ministerial consort – loyal to her friends, detested by her enemies

She may appear to present a softer target than he does, but she has never been afraid of fighting her corner.

The Moggcast: Cummings has a “willingness to shake things up and sometimes things get too shaken”

Our interviewee on the “disgraceful” treatment of Symonds and Johnson’s longstanding Euroscepticism.

David Skelton: It was working class voters who delivered this majority – and Johnson must not abandon them now

The second of a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

Amy Selman: How to be a campaigner and a governor – lessons from Johnson’s time as London’s mayor

Here’s both what his team did and how it communicated – deploying the discipline of the second to boost the first.

Damian Green: Why a forced choice between a Brexity North and a Globalist South would be a false one – and damage our Party

The first of a ConHome series this week on Boris Johnson’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

Brave New World

We fear the worst after Cummings’ departure, but Johnson must now make the best of it. That means a Cabinet shuffle.

The fullest account yet written of Sunak the rising star

Tories will read the story of his ascent to high office with enormous pleasure – for it amounts to a vindication of the United Kingdom.

The media coverage of Symonds reeks of sexism

Newspapers have called her the “Duchess of Downing Street” and suggested she formed a “crew” with other women to see off Lee Cain.

Gary Powell: How the Met went after Grimes – but turned a blind eye to incitement to murder the Prime Minister

The Government is turning a blind eye to self-evident politicisation – a miserable milestone in the Conservative Party’s masochistic colonisation by woke ideology.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson the heavyweight champion parades his new boxing gloves

Starmer could not lay a glove on an opponent who felt emboldened by the discovery of fresh ways to fight the pandemic.

WATCH: Labour press the Government over the Vaccine Taskforce’s huge PR bill at PMQs

The Prime Minister says that the money was spent combating anti-vaxxers and encouraging the public to take the vaccine.

Caino-ho-ho

Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.

The vaccine. The biggest breakthrough so far in the Covid-19 battle. But a logistical challenge unlike anything else.

Yesterday’s news marked an incredible achievement. Even so, there are many hurdles to vault.

WATCH: Johnson strives to soothe vaccine frenzy

“We’ve cleared one significant hurdle but there are several more to go before we know it can be used.”

WATCH: Build Back…Greener. The Prime Minister makes the best of America’s election news

“I’m sure that Biden and Harris will be able to get the United States to turn and focus on the issue of Net Zero by 2050.”