Garvan Walshe: The cost of Johnson’s Brexit will be paid by his new Red Wall voters

The election delivered Conservative MPs located precisely in the industrial areas that are vulnerable to the government’s own policy of divergence.

Iain Dale: Why shouldn’t the Conservatives welcome back the Kippers?

Plus: Farage and my evenings. Edinburgh and my show. Notre Dame, fire, Macron – and recovery? And: Javid’s emotional intelligence.

Iain Duncan Smith: My personal journey to Brexit

Maastricht made it clear that the EU was leaving the UK, preferring to become a superstate. We could never agree to such a project.

A French lesson for Miliband as Hollande embraces austerity

The Labour leader praised France’s President for showing “different way forward”. But it didn’t work – and is now being abandoned.