Brexiteer MPs no longer have a champion in Fleet Street

Today’s Daily Mail confirms that, under Geordie Grieg, its editorial policy has shifted. Clean Brexit supporters are short of a committed backer that counts.

Dear Conservative Party member, you are now an important person

The Prime Minister is set to lobby you about her new Brexit plan. Will she and Johnson be undertaking rival tours?

Iain Dale: Gammon if you think you’re hard enough. The patronising Remainers who’ve lost but can’t move on.

Plus: Boles was right (first time round) on Gaza. The Dambusters raid anniversary. A Tory poll lead. Plus: a man and a woman will marry in Windsor on Saturday.

The Budget morning-after. The papers could be a lot worse for the Chancellor.

The FT has the balanced “Grim outlook overshadows housing drive” while the Times goes for “Hammond eases off austerity”. The i has “Hammond’s hard-hat budget”.

Businesses should stop panicking in the face of left-wing twitterstorms

It’s understandable why Paperchase chickened out over their Daily Mail advert – but it was still a mistake.

We asked for Grown-Up Government. Now we’ve got it.

May’s manifesto is real politics – that’s to say, a serious attempt to prepare Britain for the post-Brexit challenges of the future.

Lewis Baston: We can learn from how papers covered the rise of Hitler

Reading back, it highlights how supposedly level-headed ‘realists’ were so slow to recognise the true nature of the National Socialist regime.

The leadership election, Party members and the Tory press. How much difference will the pro-Johnson Telegraph make?

Endorsements don’t matter all that much. But the tone and flavour of coverage does – what stories are selected; how they are written; how they are projected.

Lewis Baston: The 1975 Europe referendum revisited – and why it wasn’t about a free trade area

In a Daily Telegraph piece on the eve of poll, Margaret Thatcher argued for Europe, putting co-operation ahead of trade.

Lewis Baston: How a centrist Tory leader won a landslide victory over left-wing Labour – 80 years ago tomorrow

Nearly every observer expected the same result – a Conservative win with a reduced majority. This as found to be in error when the votes were counted.

The centre right press delivers a withering verdict on Cameron’s EU renegotiation demands

‘Is that it?’…’Cameron aimed low and missed’…’a waste of time and effort’…’fundamental change is not even being requested.’

Labour’s foxes: not so much shot as incinerated. Fleet Street’s take on the budget.

As the election looms, the papers are shifting back to their political comfort zones. But the consensus is that Osborne has drawn some of the sting from Miliband’s attack.

The right-wing press sets to work on Miliband

Today’s papers demonstrate how the Conservative press pack has shifted into campaign mode and marked their target: Labour.