Iain Dale: How many Cabinet members would make your fantasy Cabinet? I count five. And it gets worse…

Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.

This curious contest for the Chairmanship of the 1922 Committee

Conservative backbenchers must choose today between two candidates who at first glance at least have much in common.

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.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: A tremendously enjoyable election for backbenchers

But no fun at all for May and Hammond.

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.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May will perhaps be able to enjoy Christmas after all

The wind has changed in the Prime Minister’s favour.

Honours for Tory MPs but not Tory donors

Sir Graham Brady, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Dame Cheryl Gillan, and Sir Chris Chope gain well deserved recognition.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: We must not neglect the mental health of autistic people

Within the autism community, almost eight in ten will experience a mental health problem at some point in their life. The NHS must provide better support.

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.

Why is Hammond never available to take difficult Commons statements on Europe?

There were 26 critical questions from Conservative backbenchers on the Government’s EU referendum leaflet yesterday and 5 supportive ones.

Cameron’s revenge on purdah rebels – he sacks them from the Council of Europe

Cheryl Gillan, Sir Edward Leigh and Chris Chope will all be removed from the Parliamentary delegation today.

The good, the bad and the ugly in the Recall debate

Some wanted to give the people a say – but one MP even argued that doing so would be “an intrinsic corruption of our democracy”.

The Prime Minister unites his party on Europe, but is he winning – or is the Tory Right?

By challenging the German system of consensus politics, Cameron made himself a hero for a day.