The next Welsh Secretary if the Conservatives win

The two most likely candidates are both Welsh-speaking Brexiteers – but hail from different parts of the principality and differ on devolution.

Which MP is backing which candidate. Our named estimates. Johnson 131, Hunt 48, Gove 36, Javid 22

Here’s our best stab at who is voting for whom, and this list will be updated each morning, as the contest continues.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May’s enraged backbenchers ask how she can cosy up to Corbyn

The Leader of the Opposition took the chance to do a bit of electioneering by praising Tony Blair’s achievements.

The verdict of Cash’s ‘Star Chamber’ on the UK-EU Political Agreement: full text.

The panel, comprising legally-trained Conservative and DUP MPs as well as outside experts, set out their full legal reasoning for rejecting the deal.

The 75 Conservative MPs who opposed the Prime Minister’s deal

Mostly ERG-aligned Leavers – but roughly ten former Remainers, a core of whom now back a second referendum.

The Brexiteer group of eight: lawyers or politicians first?

The latter, we believe. And we caution against presuming that they are predisposed to support a revised deal.

How MPs say they will vote in today’s confidence ballot

We currently have it at 189 declared for May, versus the 31 publicly opposed, and 93 undeclared.

Richard Tice: This negotiation was our Isandlwana. Now let’s have a Rorke’s Drift.

Get Heywood and Robbins out; get Rees-Mogg and Duncan Smith in. There is still a chance to reverse last week’s defeat.

Rosalind Beck: Ministers are not just adopting, but even extending, parts of the Left’s agenda on housing

The Government needs to see the private rented sector as part of the solution rather than the problem.

Henry Hill: Jones criticises ‘regrettable’ change of tone on Brexit from Dublin

Also: Green MSP hits out at nationalist hardliners; cracks appear in DUP’s gay marriage position; and Northern Irish Labour officers resign over infiltration.

DExEU alert klaxon

There are only five days to go until the start of the Brexit negotiations. May cannot afford to make a reshuffle mess of a department from which she has now lost two Ministers.

Nicky Morgan: If Britain reaches no deal with the EU, Parliament must still be able to vote

Whatever the outcome, MPs and peers must be able to have their say in the lobbies.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Sir Keir wins a Brexit concession for the Dinner Party

Parliamentary sovereignty has become fashionable among Europhiles who used to consider it barbaric.

Why is Hammond never available to take difficult Commons statements on Europe?

There were 26 critical questions from Conservative backbenchers on the Government’s EU referendum leaflet yesterday and 5 supportive ones.

Conservative Party events should give a platform to Leave, not just Remain

Using official Party events to make the case for Remain without a balancing voice is a breach of neutrality.