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.

Henry Newman: Hammond should stick to the Conservative position on the Customs Union – and stop freelancing

We would remain bound by the EU’s protectionist tariff structure, and have our trade agreements determined by institutions on which we were not represented.

Profile: George Osborne, who could have stayed in Westminster, and returned to the Cabinet. But who left, and is trying to destroy May.

The former Chancellor has taken to the role of newspaper editor, but some will see his attacks on the Prime Minister as unhelpful.

It’s time for Conservatives to get over Thatcher, get on with May – and look forward, not back

The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.

If I know Osborne, he will be thinking ahead – and mulling his chances of editing the Times

It is doubtless bad manners to ask, on day two of his new job, what he will do next. But posing the question and trying to answer it is irresistible.

WATCH: Osborne – “My job as Editor of the Evening Standard is to speak for London: speak for my readers, speak for this country”

The former Chancellor begins his transition from the Commons as an MP to a newspaper as an editor.

Resist the pressure for full-time politicians

If an MP neglects his constituents then they can throw him out.

Osborne triumphantly demonstrates a journalistic essential. A sense of mischief.

In the short-term, this editorship unleashes a clowder of cats in the Conservative dovecot. In the longer, the move looks like a step nearer Westminster’s exit door.

Iain Dale: A foreign nurse tells me that Brits don’t want his NHS job. He has a point.

Plus: Two policemen’s child abuse claims. Lamb for LibDem leader. Osborne for the Foreign Office. And: why won’t Waterstones stock more copies of Farage’s book?