The number of Tory MPs who oppose the deal stands at 71. Lamont, Freeman are the latest to say they won’t back it.

Plus a further 41 probable or possible opponents. But such calculations are an art, not a science – and the totals will change.

The Commons renders the proposed television debate on Brexit utterly superfluous

It is hard to see how the different Brexit alternatives can be presented anything like as well on TV as they will be in Parliament.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Dodds looks as if he wants to push the delete button on May

The Prime Minister clearly thinks she can talk her own backbenchers into supporting her deal, but could find no way of conciliating the DUP.

May’s Brexit deal helps to show that British politicians are more honourable and efficient than is claimed

There has been a tendency to suppose that because Britain’s power has declined in relative terms they must have become totally useless.

Polite discomfort (or “a load of arse-kissing”) on the Prime Minister’s conference call with senior Tory activists

“No-one had a pop at her”, I’m told – but equally her answers don’t seem to have won round the assembled Association officers.

WATCH: Badenoch says “yes and no” to whether the Conservatives have an “image problem”

The vice chair for candidates talks about the “many, many reasons” the party fails to gain a bigger proportion of ethnic minority voters.

We think we know Churchill, but are constantly surprised by him

Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.

Hamish McFall: CCHQ’s inquisitorial approach to council candidates risks deterring good people

Sitting councillors and aspirant candidates alike have been irritated and offended by the new process.

James Morris: Introducing Conservative Academy, our new training tool for members

From campaigning to recruitment to compliance, our new online toolkit will help new recruits and seasoned veterans alike do their bit for the Conservative cause.

Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Javid on how Enoch Powell lost a generation of ethnic minority voters

The Home Secretary also spoke of the vital need to fix the housing crisis.

Tim Bale: How the Conservatives can turn new members into activists

A national membership system is a good start, but it must be accompanied by pro-active engagement from local associations.

Sixteen Parliamentarians appointed to the Conservative Policy Commission taskforces

The chairs of the 1922 Policy Boards are joined by a range of MPs and peers, all of whom will aid Skidmore’s work.

Alistair Lexden: Commemorating Baldwin, the Prime Minister who pioneered ‘One Nation’

The Conservative Party’s official historian was speaking at the unveiling of a new statue to the former Party leader in his home town of Bewdley today.

Rebecca Lowe: The Conservatives and women. The Tory electoral challenge has more to do with age than gender.

Rather than wasting time with forays into positive discrimination, the Conservatives should weight the merits of various forms of increased flexibility at work.

Skidmore establishes five new policy task forces, from Global Britain to democratic reform

Seven MPs and three peers will oversee the work of policy innovation.