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.

Three tests that the Conservative Party’s inquiry into the Clarke allegations must pass

It will clearly be unsatisfactory if Lord Feldman and others are not interviewed at all, and that he himself will submit evidence to people who report to him.

Elliott Johnson’s father must now have the independent inquiry he wants

The Party Board should ensure that the issues at stake are addressed with a credibility that is presently absent.

EVEL has slipped off the radar, but the Government hasn’t solved it

The Procedure Committee’s interim report suggests that the Government will have a fight on its hands to defend its vision for English Votes.

Blunt’s victory is an emphatic win for the pro-Palestinian cause

Jesse Norman wins Culture, Julian Lewis Defence…and Meg Hillier is the new Chairman of the Public Accounts Committtee.

The Diana-fication of the Commons

The Chamber’s culture change is for the worse – and it serves voters ill at a time when the country’s future is threatened.

WATCH: Charles Walker accuses Hague and Gove of dishonesty in the Bercow debate

“I have been played as a fool. But I would much rather be an honourable fool, in this and any other matter, than a clever man.”