Grey suits wait for Gray, Sue

Conservative MPs have chosen to await her report, plus perhaps Geidt, Stone, the police, potential resignations – and an unhappy Chancellor.

Our Cabinet League Table: Johnson falls to his lowest ever negative rating.

And Ministers associated with support for Covid restrictions suffer noticeable falls in their scores.

Caine’s appointment reinstalls the Northern Ireland Office’s institutional political memory

His expertise and long experience will be useful if the Government does go ahead with triggering Article 16.

Henry Hill: The SNP’s new politics of ‘are you dead yet?’ shows time is not really on their side

Also: Court rules that Lewis has failed in his responsibility to provide abortion services in Ulster; Sturgeon accused of Covid cover-up.

The Northern Irish Protocol. Will Macron turn off Britain’s French nuclear supplies?

Triggering it would not be an assault on international law, but nor would it be a panacea. Frost wants to re-open the treaty.

Truss top, Wallace second, Sunak down, Gove up – and Johnson sixth from bottom in our post-shuffle Cabinet League Table

There is a willingness to give the new Cabinet a chance, but nervousness about the country’s economic prospects and the Party’s strategic direction.

Ten questions for Johnson’s reshuffle

Among them are: what does he do about economic policy? Who runs Downing Street? And: what about the Home and Foreign Offices?

Our Cabinet League Table. Raab plummets from third from top in July to fourth from bottom last month.

And Wallace is up from ninth to fourth. The Prime Minister and Home Secretary are both in the bottom ten.

Henry Hill: SNP faces police investigation over ‘missing’ independence campaign cash

Also: Ministers give opponents of Troubles amnesty six weeks to propose alternatives and square off to the devocrats over freeports.

Two by-elections and one Health Secretary – losses see Johnson fall by 16 points in our Cabinet League Table

Javid comes straight in at fifth place; Williamson’s score is in freefall; and the podium positions are unchanged.

Stephen Booth: The Northern Ireland Protocol. A crisis is averted. But for how long?

That Switzerland and New Zealand each have their own arrangements suggests that a bespoke arrangement ought to be possible.

WATCH: Hancock “should be proud” of what he has done with the health service, says Lewis

“Credit to Matt that his focus is not just on his family but on the wider country and the best interests of the UK.”

WATCH: Lewis – My tweet about there being no Irish Sea Border “has not aged well”

The Northern Ireland Secretary refuses to say if there’s a border, although admits that there is “big disruption”.

Henry Hill: Frost secures a stay of execution for British trade with Northern Ireland, but no sign of a pardon yet

An agreement to extend grace periods would avoid the Government having to do so unilaterally, as it did previously.

Why Poots has departed and what it means

Successive Secretaries of State have preferred to bribe the local parties back to the table than to govern. This must change.