Cummings made a reasonable case yesterday, and his critics should accept it – and move on

Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.

WATCH: After May, Johnson? And No Deal?

Paul Goodman of ConHome and Stephen Bush of the New Statesman in conversation with Gary Gibbon of Channel 4 for his podcast.

“When each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground”

May’s appeal next week at Chequers will be founded in grinding detail, not Churchillian rhetoric. Key to agreement will be taking Ministers with her and springing no untoward surprises.

Profile: Arlene Foster, standing firm for Britain in Belfast

The DUP leader has not yet shown she knows how to make the strange machinery set up in Stormont work.

Iain Dale: How Bob Stewart mulled resigning his seat live on air this week

Plus: PMQs verdicts. Craig Oliver should look in a mirror. Our Why Vote? results. Let them eat mangos. And: Gus O’Donnell – a bit of a dick.