Henry Newman: A Brexit deal isn’t certain, but it’s within reach – and it could still make it through Parliament

The process is hard and risky, but it still seems unlikely that the Labour Party would really torpedo an agreement in the last resort.

Henry Newman: A dozen reasons to unstop the backstop

It now the main issue blocking a negotiated agreement – thus risking a No Deal and potentially a harder Irish border. In short, it risks triggering the very thing it is supposed to avoid.

Daniel Hannan: Kavanaugh may be guilty. But justice demands that his confirmation should take place.

The presumption of innocence should not be some empty piety. A nasty aspect of politics is that this principle is reversed when the headlines are bad enough.

Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.

Greig Baker: Campaigning for the 2019 local election in Canterbury is well under way

Our candidates realise we have to start early. We have regular dates set well in advance to get out on the pavement.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: the Chief Whip crouches in front of the Prime Minister

Last-minute concessions appear to have saved the Government from defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill

Rudd quits. Who will replace her?

That’s four Cabinet Ministers gone in less than a year since the election – Michael Fallon, Priti Patel, Damian Green…and now the Home Secretary.

Ben Rochelle: Why May will still be Prime Minister in a year’s time

The Brexit negotiations and the lack of an obvious successor are likely to keep her in place at least until we leave the EU in March 2019.

May doesn’t need a First Secretary of State

The course consistent with this site’s recommendations is to appoint a more junior Cabinet Office Minister.

Our survey. Next Tory leader. As last month, Rees-Mogg leads and Gove is second.

Our take is that our panel is waiting to see what happens next, and suspending judgement as the political cycle and Brexit negotiations continue.

Watch Hunt – now up to second in our final Cabinet League Table of 2017. Gove keeps the top spot.

Davidson and Mordaunt also score highly, whilst the Chancellor and Chief Whip both languish with negative scores.

“The police got their man” – whatever you think of Green, the behaviour of these officers is a disgrace

Even had he been found completely guilty of all allegations, it still wouldn’t be acceptable for the police in misuse their powers in this way.

Green’s sacking leaves May lonelier this morning

Unlike Michael Fallon, whose presence in Cabinet the Prime Minister inherited, he was her own creation at the top, and one on which she relied.

“I regret that I’ve been asked to resign”: Green’s letter to the Prime Minister

She replies: “It is with deep regret, and enduring gratitude…that I asked you to resign and have accepted your resignation.”

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May is more confident, but just as dull

She is the respectable tenant of Downing Street, a public-sector property to which Jeremy Corbyn has yet to establish his claim.