Vox Pub in Sidcup: “I think that Boris will get in and Labour will have to have a rethink”.

Voters at this week’s by-election in Old Bexley and Sidcup are angry with the Prime Minister, but do not appear to have settled on anyone better.

Emily Carver: Kate Bingham is right – the machinery of government is in trouble. It’s time Johnson proved he has a vision.

Unfortunately, ever-increasing public spending and green policies inspire little confidence in the Prime Minister.

Ten questions for Johnson’s reshuffle

Among them are: what does he do about economic policy? Who runs Downing Street? And: what about the Home and Foreign Offices?

Profile of an ex-Prime Minister. Theresa May becomes the voice of Conservative conscience.

While Blair, Brown and Cameron scuttled off indecorously after leaving Number 10, she remains in the Commons and tries to hold Johnson to account.

In defence of Theresa May

If more former Ministers stayed in the Commons, it would be a more effective chamber.

Iain Dale: Cummings. Why bother giving seven hours of testimony – but not then provide supporting evidence?

Plus: I am seriously considering stepping back from Twitter. And: the play you must see.

Will First Past The Post be used for the ’22 Chairman election? If so, does that suit the incumbent – Brady?

A decision is expected when the Executive committee meets this week, and the poll itself is due to take place after June 21.

Poots and Faulkner

Unlike the former Ulster Unionist leader, the new DUP one is set to stick with his voter and party base. But you never know.

How disgusting Cameron’s critics are. He is a decent man – as were Baldwin and Blair.

All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.

How to advise Lord North, or Heath, or Thatcher, or Johnson

A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.

Profile: Tony Blair. Zealous, unrepentant and driven – the leader who took us to war in Iraq is reborn as our saviour from the pandemic.

It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?

This is the most socially liberal Conservative government in history

We give you divorce reform, abortion law in Northern Ireland, citizenship rights for three million Hong Kongers, and the rainbow flag.

There’s no good reason why Frost shouldn’t serve as National Security Adviser

Perhaps we should all take a step backwards from comparing CVs, and simply ask ourselves who has a record of delivering for Britain.

“Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

The big picture is that Johnson is dashing for growth. We devoutly hope it works but the precedents aren’t promising.

Patrick Nicholls: Fishing. My part in the movement to take control of it back from the EU.

No guilt attaches to Boris Johnson, unless by betraying the industry a second time he chooses to endorse and embrace that earlier guilt.