The radical, anti-establishment, change-focused election launch speech drafted for May – but which she never delivered. Full text.

It was junked for a Crosby-approved alternative. Here it is in full for the first time.

Davidson, the best hope of the Stop Johnson campaign

A new biography fails to convey the Scottish Conservative Leader’s gusto, but does show how traditional she is.

James Frayne: As the Guardian pushes for the Left, will the Mail do the same for the Right?

The former’s readership has risen. The latter’s leadership is changing. What will this and other changes mean for our political culture?

Robert Halfon: There’s a sense in the air that party splits are coming. But here’s a surprise – they won’t be over Europe

Plus: ditching Corbyn – it’s not that easy for Britain’s Jews. And: thanks to Tracey Crouch and Danny Kruger, the Big Society is back.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May looked white, tense and hunched, but she won

Grieve behaved with the prudence of the Grand Old Duke of York, but suggested everyone has gone mad.

Good Grieve

Long-standing Leavers, who stood out for personal conviction against the Party leadership, should understand Remainers who are now in the same position.

“Who will speak for England” after Dacre departs?

For 26 years, the Daily Mail’s editor ensured his newspaper was a loudhailer for a quiet majority – and he inspired love and loathing along the way.

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.

Iain Dale: Did the whips leak the rebels’ names to the Telegraph?

That’s what Sarah Wollaston suggested on my show this week. Plus: my prison visit, sticking by your friends…and sticking with spending control in the Budget.

The Telegraph’s backfiring attack on “mutineer” MPs points to a strategic problem for Conservatives

Giants of Fleet Street are making political errors which harm, not help, their cause.

Pro-Remain Cabinet Minister “wants Gove as Chancellor”

Though if May moves Philip Hammond, or seeks to, she is also likely to move Boris Johnson, or try to.

Will Corbyn and his colleagues ever apologise for backing the Venezuelan regime?

There is a Labour tradition of defending brutal dictatorships.

Garvan Walshe: Could Poland’s populist assault on the judiciary happen here?

The modern state is intended to restrain those who seek a monopoly on power. Such people naturally resent it when that system works.

Kieron O’Hara: Seven ways to reach younger voters. Including, as May is doing today, reaching out to other parties.

If the Conservatives spoke a progressive alliance, and meant it, they might be able to make some progress – and break down virulent anti-Toryism.