Fifteen years after I started writing about Johnson, one might almost think his time has come

Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Stewart is the star of the show

He reproached the advocates of no deal for telling a fairy tale.

Greg Hands: The Party Leader must be far more accountable to Conservative MPs

Three meetings with the ’22 each year, with no questions allowed, are simply not sufficient. Even Corbyn engages more than this.

Brexit: The Uncivil War. Graham gives us Cummings Agonistes – and a Tory work of art.

The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.

Who does the Conservative Party belong to?

The task of choosing the final two runners must remain with MPs, who know them better than the members do.

The Rudd debacle highlights a problem. Many of the Government’s special advisers are no good.

Ministers like Amber Rudd have great difficulty finding able SpAds because the Conservative Research Department, which used to train them, has been destroyed.

Alex Morton: Without capitalism in capital markets, Corbyn wins

Lower interest rates and monetary manipulation have been presented as the solution to our economic woes. But increasingly they create them.

LISTEN: Wallace and McGregor on the importance and pitfalls of data-driven political campaigning

ConservativeHome’s Executive Editor and Barack Obama’s former digital guru discuss the ethics and practicalities of targeted campaigning, on the Week in Westminster.

Profile: Esther McVey, who scares and infuriates Labour by reaching the northerners it has neglected

The Work and Pensions Secretary has a genuine belief in social mobility and is magnificently unabashed under fire.

Peter Franklin: Ruling political tribes 2) The Conservatives. Gove is now in a position to emerge as kingmaker – or, just maybe, as King.

But unless his fully-developed vision of the future can capture heart-and-minds, I’d expect control of the party to stay with the mainstream.

Profile: Gavin Williamson – “He makes Francis Urquhart look like Eddie the Eagle.”

Now that he has made the leap from Chief Whip to Defence Secretary, we republish our Profile from shortly after he transitioned from Team Cameron to Team May.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Labour MPs tempted by a perilous delusion

May encourages Corbyn to take up primeministerial posturing.

Siobhan Baillie: Cohabiting couples deserve a change in the law

The modern family is changing, and the law should change with it. In any event, the traditional view of marriage has already been overhauled by the Conservatives.

Rees-Mogg should be offered a Ministerial post

No, we don’t believe that he should be the next Tory leader. But he would make a better Minister than some of those now in place.

42 per cent and no majority 5) Five steps towards a post-Brexit immigration policy

It is unlikely that the mass of such voters in those crucial northern and midlands marginals would welcome a permissive approach.