Profile: Raab, the hard-driving deputy who must suddenly shoulder the burden of leading Britain

His colleagues express their confidence in their temporary chairman, and in his ability to revive Cabinet government.

Can Starmer surprise us?

He will have to be more than a kind of North London John Smith if he wants to do more than just profit from the Government’s misfortunes. 

Iain Dale: Which Starmer will we get as Labour’s new leader this weekend? Radical Starmer? Or Safety First Starmer?

For his Shadow Cabinet, I would choose media friendly spokespeople, and back them up with deputies more on the policy wonkish side of things.

Theresa Villiers: Some close to government would accept the total liberalisation of trade in agriculture. Here’s why they’re wrong.

We should make tariff reductions conditional on meeting standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection which are as good as our own.

The Moggcast. “The EU as a structure looks rather irrelevant during this crisis”.

Plus: Why China’s relationship with the rest of the world could change “for the better or worse after this”.

WATCH: “There’s nothing we can’t do as an independent nation that being part of that scheme would have allowed us to do”, says Gove

“I’ve talked to senior members of the NHS and they’ve reassured me…some of those ventilators from abroad are coming from EU countries.”

Philip Lynch: We may not have seen the last of Conservative infighting on Europe

The new parliamentary party is more Eurosceptic, and a majority government better-positioned to absorb rebellions. And yet…

Patrick Nicholls: Fishing. My part in the movement to take control of it back from the EU.

No guilt attaches to Boris Johnson, unless by betraying the industry a second time he chooses to endorse and embrace that earlier guilt.

WATCH: Corbyn – Johnson said “he’d get Brexit done”, but “hasn’t got a trade deal with the USA”

“I’m proud of the economic agenda we put forward”.

The rights and wrongs of the Government’s treatment of the self-employed

The Chancellor should make further provision for them. But the vast though necessary expansion of state spending will need emergency powers-type checks.

Stephen Booth: A decision on extending Brexit transition will be made sooner rather than later

The bigger challenge is likely to be implementing whatever results from this year’s talks, be it a “Canada-style” deal or “Australia-style” no deal.

John Longworth: Introducing the Foundation for Independence, a new voice for pro-Brexit business

For too long, the only organisations in this space have been big-business lobbies with a relentlessly negative attitude towards leaving the European Union.

Budget 2) John Glen: The challenges we face of the virus and of weak productivity can’t be met by the repetition of small state mantras

The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.

WATCH: The Chancellor downplays suggestions the coronavirus will postpone Brexit

“Delay doesn’t lead to any good outcomes, it’s not helpful, and actually having a fixed timetable and delivering on it is the important thing here.”

Elliot Keck: Johnson’s approach to the EU negotiation is straight out of The Office

Scott’s gamble is that it is in Wallace’s interest to wrap things up quickly – due to fears for his position. The Prime Minister is making a strikingly similar gamble.