Iain Dale: UKIP suspends Evans – and finally flips

Plus: Schengen should be suspended. The doctors’ strike is a disgrace. A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark. And: Gove could develop into a fine Conservative leader.

Rebecca Coulson: Let’s raise a glass of wine to drink as Osborne hunts for sugar to tax

When more than 30 million of us regularly drink wine, why does the pub – not the wine bar – continue to represent political expediency?

Judy Terry: Towards the Suffolk powerhouse

Freight arrives in the ports of East Anglia – but the economy is held back because of an inferior road and rail network.

The Crabb and the Octopus

If yesterday’s accommodation had been reached last week, Duncan Smith wouldn’t have felt the need to resign in the first place.

Interview: Nicholas Soames compares Brexiteers to an Alsatian that must be kicked “really hard in the balls”

He regrets the resignation of IDS, condemns Liam Fox, and says the press has grotesquely exaggerated the Government’s difficulties.

Nick Timothy: What does the Conservative Party offer a working-class kid from Brixton, Birmingham, Bolton or Bradford?

Forget IDS’ Easterhouse modernisation and Osborne’s Soho modernisation. It’s time for Erdington modernisation.

George Freeman: Devolution is the defining agenda of modern Conservatism

Rediscovering the strong, municipal politics of the Nineteenth Century is the key to making Britain thrive in the Twenty First.

We should face up to the end of ‘retirement’

The notion of long years of post-career idleness is an artefact of a clumsy system. We are living and active for longer, and provision for our dotage must adapt.

David Davis: Cameron must give Crabb the freedom denied to Duncan Smith

More power and control must be devolved to Cabinet members if we are to see the improvement in the quality of government that is now plainly necessary.

Iain Dale: Duncan Smith’s Friday night call to Priti

Even his close Leave ally had no advance warning. It wasn’t planned – he’d simply had enough of the Chancellor’s all-pervading control of Whitehall.

The IDS aftermath

Live fire is exchanged in both directions. Gove plays peacemaker. And might Osborne decide to pull out of the leadership race?

Duncan Smith’s resignation. The quiet man roars.

This zinger of a departure is about social justice as well as EU membership – and his farewell letter is a missile aimed at Osborne’s character and conduct.

Joe Cawley: The Budget’s academies expansion. More centralised control – or more freedom and better results?

The academies plan could mark the start of a more effective, cheaper, de-centralised, responsive and accountable way of running the nation’s services.

Cameron’s reply to the Work and Pension Secretary’s resignation letter: full text

“I am puzzled and disappointed that you have chosen to resign.”

Duncan Smith’s resignation letter: full text

I am unable to watch passively…fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.”