The plan to force a second referendum, and the prospect of party realignment

When Letwin and Watson are on the same page, we should all study the book very carefully.

As the ‘meaningful vote’ approaches, apply buckets of salt to all Government news

Scepticism is always a healthy attitude – but the spin being pumped out this weekend merits even more than normal.

How May’s Conservatives could morph into SDP Two – realigning British politics from the top down

The sequence of events: bow to a second referendum, lose the ERG, gain Blairites, contest a general election – and rebrand the Party.

Iain Dale: Maybe it’s because he’s a Londoner that we love Javid so

Plus: Leadsom stonewalls, Cox charms, Brexit stalls. And: my almost-but-not-quite shoulderpads fetish.

What the London Mayoral selection short-list tells us. And what the successful candidate should do.

No celebrity candidates. No non-Tories. Bailey, Boff and Morrissey have all spent years campaigning, knocking on doors, handing out leaflets in the sun and in the rain.

Iain Dale: How I broke the news to Davis that Johnson had resigned

Plus: Why hasn’t May done a single interview about her Brexit plan since last Friday? And: Take a bow, Gareth Southgate and company.

Iain Dale: Why Philip May is the Prime Minister’s Willie

Plus: That customs Cabinet committee meeting – and luck & chance in politics. How Zephaniah has fallen. Javid v Khan. And: my local elections overnight marathon.

Iain Dale: Wotcha, Peston. WTF are you on?

My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.

Iain Dale: As May speaks in Florence, I’m here in Berlin – watching Merkel preparing her own return to office

Plus: Osborne’s regrets, vintage Heseltine – and, after Germany, to Brighton, for what is claimed to be the biggest conference Labour has ever held.

Kieron O’Hara: An unloved Prime Minister. An inadequate Foreign Secretary. And a hamstrung Trade Secretary. What a Brexit mess.

This is not a pro-Remain article. Rather, my point is that a referendum is a horrible way of making political decisions, and we are where we are as a direct result.

Christopher Howarth: Osborne, Umunna and the CBI are offering a bridge to nowhere, not a bridging agreement

Having attacked EEA membership as a bad deal during the referendum, they now pretend it is a good idea in the hope of preventing Brexit.

Kieron O’Hara: Seven ways to reach younger voters. Including, as May is doing today, reaching out to other parties.

If the Conservatives spoke a progressive alliance, and meant it, they might be able to make some progress – and break down virulent anti-Toryism.

Henry Newman: If the EU can strike a free trade, customs-friendly deal with Japan, why not with Britain too?

The Union has already signed up to an FTA) with Canada. Surely we should be able to agree a similar deal for the UK – if not one substantially deeper.

Iain Dale: How I did not become May’s new Director of Communications

Guido Fawkes, Tom Newton-Dunn and the Evening Standard diary banded together to suggest that I was about to do a far, far better thing than I have ever done…

Wanted: a revived campaign for Brexit of all parties and none. Without it, Remain may snatch victories from defeat.

The news is not all bad for supporters of Leave. But a weakened Government needs third party support to deliver not so much a Soft or Hard Brexit as a clean one.