Exclusive: Walker resigns from the Party Board, amid rising tensions over centralised candidate selection

The Vice-Chairman of the ’22 served on the Board for nine years, and recently oversaw the leadership contest, so his departure is a surprise.

The next Speaker. Will MPs be guided by party or by prejudice?

If they want a more old-fashioned product, they may go for Lindsay Hoyle. If someone more like the present incumbent, for Harriet Harman.

Mark Wallace’s leadership sketch: Johnson keeps it brief, and leaves his fans wanting more

The result was as expected, and the winner kept his comments tight and spare. But there’s a job at the Brit Awards awaiting Cheryl Gillan.

The timetable for the Parliamentary stage of the Conservative leadership election

Nominations close, 17.00, Monday June 10th. First ballot on Thursday 13th June, from 10am to 12pm.

Hunt declares, Brady stands down as Chairman of the 1922 Committee

The Farnham Herald reports that the Foreign Secretary “announced his candidature to a packed audience at his ‘political update’ talk at the festival at 11am

Brady will not be supervising the leadership contest – which suggests he will be a candidate himself

Brandon Lewis has ruled himself out. The new Prime Minister should be chosen by the end of July.

Robert Halfon: My constituents are against us shelling out £39 billion for nothing. Anyway, are we really obliged to pay?

If all this is correct, the EEA route seems to me a sensible way forward if Parliament can’t agree on a deal.

Chris White: Why it’s time radically to reform the Private Members’ Bill system

In the wake of the row over an anti-upskirting bill and Chris Chope’s objection, we re-run the author’s 2016 piece calling on the Government to act.

Our panel’s Conservative Parliamentarian of the year is… can you guess?

There was only ever going to be one winner – and Rees Mogg duly powers in with over 70 per cent of the vote.

Clifton-Brown, Jenrick and Walker elected to the Conservative Party Board

Two incumbents were re-elected by Tory MPs, and Jenrick joins the Board for the first time.

Brady returned unopposed as 1922 Executive Committee Chairman

The Parliamentary Party has just been through two divisive experiences, and there was evidently no appetite for a third.

Chris White: Why it’s time radically to reform the Private Members’ Bill system

The current procedures are unsustainable, unbalanced and undemocratic.

The Chancellor scores some points on the Tory backbenches

While many MPs are aggrieved at the Government’s EU campaign, Osborne offered them some relief from unpopular financial scrutiny.

Cameron, Osborne, Ministers, MPs, tax returns – and the fourth money laundering directive

The Prime Minister’s decision to publish his tax return has big knock-on implications for his colleagues, and perhaps for himself too.

Cameron delivered ConHome readers’ Speech of the Year

The Prime Minister’s victory oration in Manchester beat two celebrated maiden speeches and a cussed defence of the Speaker.