Two thirds. Five sevenths. The proportion of unidentified savings that the two main parties are planning.

A probe of a key question as the election approaches. How big are the spending reductions that each major party requires?

Lord Ashcroft: Eight things we learned from my polling in 2014

Among the lessons: that the two main parties are on the slide, and that Labour aren’t immune from UKIP.

Interview: Jacob Rees-Mogg – “I think the love-bombing of UKIP voters would be an intelligent strategy”

He contends that we have become “a classless society” – and will set out in his election address his demands for our EU renegotiation.

Cameron should stop pretending to be David Mellor in the back of a cab

By being so unrelentlingly contemptuous about the Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister is corrupting his own brand.

Today’s blue-on-blue attacks – what do they mean?

The Chancellor is the target, only a few days after his Autumn Statement.

Interview: Nicky Morgan – “As a Christian Secretary of State for Education, I will oppose secular, politically correct dogma”

Michael Gove’s successor upholds his reforms, opposes new grammar schools, dismisses Tristram Hunt as “vacuous”…and admires Henry VIII.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour’s lead narrows to two points in my latest National Poll

Also: our respondents consider the prospect of another coalition. Tory voters would be happier to see the Greens in government than UKIP.

UKIP has peaked, and is in the process of becoming a party like any other

The strain of cohabiting with Douglas Carswell is crushing Nigel Farage’s joie de vivre.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: white van man becomes the arbiter of politics

We got Shakespeare driving a white van, or at least commenting on one, but he was trumped by an MP who actually has white vans in his family.

Interview: Daniel Moylan – “Boris will never surrender his vision of building a great new airport east of London”

The airports adviser to the Mayor of London tells ConHome what “a Boris world” would look like.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Comrade Miliband resorts to class war

The Labour leader accuses Cameron of being on the side of the rich, and tries to suppress the awkward knowledge that Labour too is on the side of the bosses.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour and the Conservatives are still within a point of each other in this week’s poll

Ed Miliband is the only party leader who is less popular among swing voters than among the electorate as a whole.

Interview: McLoughlin – “If it wasn’t for the Conservative Party, nobody would know who Carswell and Reckless were”

Patrick McLoughlin, Transport Secretary and former miner, on UKIP, HS2, the Euston Arch, Heathrow and the desirability of getting ahead with one’s Christmas shopping.

What’s wrong with Hampstead? In defence of Miliband.

As it happens, I live only a few hundred yards from his house.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: two jackals fight over the carcass of British politics

If Cameron and Miliband remain stuck in this cycle of insults, the patience of the spectators will run out long before next May.