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.