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.

A comic novel which defends tabloid journalism!

Stephen Glover tells the story of a reporter who sets out to destroy a corrupt MP.

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.

Garvan Walshe: Macron’s victory means that May’s Brexit strategy must change fast

By seeing off Le Pen and electing the most ideologically pro-EU president since Giscard d’Estaing, France has changed the game.

ConHome is told that Foges, Fox and Seely are the three finalists for the Isle of Wight

CCHQ has been taken to task elsewhere for imposing lists of candidates on seats with no connection to it. It certainly hasn’t done so in this case.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May walks all over Corbyn on her way to the election

It was not an edifying spectacle, but it was convincing in its way.

The supporters of grammar schools could well be Greening’s biggest problem

Today’s papers show she already has a tough time pleasing everyone.

Profile: Elizabeth Truss, who does not quite know how to talk to the judges, and vice-versa

The Lord Chancellor has enraged the judiciary by not speaking up for it in what it saw as an hour of need.

The Daily Mail has a higher proportion of women readers than any other paper

Discuss.

May needs Hammond – so she must not abandon him as he retreats on NICs

Near the heart of a decision that both approved was a distrust of the style of politics pursued by the Chancellor’s predecessor.

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.

May. Morgan. Hill. Leather trousers. We propose the £4.99 ebay solution.

This site is prepared to kit out both MPs if necessary. And the Prime Minister’s co-Chief of Staff too.