How not to destroy Trump and Johnson

In both cases their opponents resort to character assassination and are left with no one against whom they can argue.

James Arnell: The conventional wisdom about a trade deal with America is wrong. Trump will want a fair one. Here’s why.

The primary motivation to strike a fair agreement with the UK will be to apply pressure to the EU.

A UK-US trade deal. Never mind the economics (at least for a moment). Feel the politics.

As with the NHS, policing, immigration and stop & search, so with trade. The Prime Minister will want a quick win – or at least progress towards one.

Dominic Walsh: What would No Deal mean for trade beyond the EU?

While trade deals have taken on an important political and symbolic value, their benefits are typically smaller and slower to materialise than many realise.

Lord Ashcroft: Will voters still give Johnson the benefit of the doubt? We’re about to find out.

Lessons endure from my polling study of our new Prime Minister, carried out six years ago when he was London’s Mayor.

Congratulations – and welcome to hell

The new Prime Minister will inherit the worst political legacy in living memory – with the very barest of working majorities.

From Reggie to Dessie: The colleagues are desperate to impress Johnson, B. But he doesn’t know who most of them are.

So I took myself off to Lords with Crispin Blunt, Lord Haselhurst, and Tracey Crouch for some serious cricket.

What Johnson will be like as Prime Minister

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

Ben Roback: The racism row. Trump has set a trap for the Democrats – but risks also falling into it himself.

The White House attack on “the squad” risks turning out Democratic voters as a natural by-product of seeking to turn out Republicans.

Time is running out for Corbyn as well as May

Here is a Leader of the Opposition who cannot see an open goal without tapping the ball gently in the wrong direction.

Johnson’s August 1) He must spend time in Scotland

The first in a ConservativeHome series of what the new Prime Minister must do in the month before Parliament returns in September.

Is the Official Secrets Act fit for purpose?

That newspapers may technically be open to proceedings over the Darroch cables highlights weaknesses in our legislation.

John Jenkins: Too many excuses are made for Iran – especially by the EU. We must get real, stand with America, and take decisive action.

I’m glad to see we’ve now had the guts to stop a tanker we believe is smuggling Iranian oil in defiance of sanctions on Syria.

Daniel Hannan: For Brexit to work, power must be stripped from the quangocrats – and returned to people we elect

Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.

The civil service isn’t neutral. It shouldn’t be, it can’t be.

It must necessarily have a worldview. The question is whether or not this has caught up with the Brexit vote.