Hancock must explain in person why he should stay. Not vanish behind a statement made on paper.

A brief apology doesn’t justify him remaining in post.  It’s now up to him to do so live. This is one for Andrew Neil, assuming he’s available.

Questioning Hancock. How far will Clark and Hunt go?

Cummings has said he will hand over material to the inquiry. Will the committee ask the Government to do likewise?

Cummings Reborn – as the champion of Parliament. He has given MPs more power, so leaving the inquiry with less.

Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 2) The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill

Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.

Looking back at the Budget a week on, its plan for growth is not convincing

The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.

Thirteen Conservative MPs pressed for a faster easing of restrictions during Johnson’s statement yesterday – and 35 did not

Yesterday’s backbench reaction to his Commons statement suggests that most Tory MPs will back his proposals.

The Conservative MPs who misread Johnson, were willing to end his career over Brexit – and ended their own instead

This is not the first time that the Prime Minister has been misread by opponents who deluded themselves into believing he was set on No Deal.

Jenrick, King of Liverpool?

Max Caller, the inspector who brought change to Tower Hamlets, has been sent in to the city. The Government could take control.

Johnson is pressed in the Commons by Tory MPs about an end to shutdown by Christmas

Fox floated a new Parliamentary committee to “determine that decisions across all parts of Government have been taken on the best available evidence”.

“Project fear” and a “national trauma” – criticisms from Tory backbenchers in the Commons yesterday

From calling the measures “dystopian”, to criticising Whitty and Vallance’s latest graph, there were some scathing speeches.

Opposition to new national lockdowns is growing on the Conservative backbenches

Over a third of those who asked a question during a Hancock statement yesterday were to some degree resistant to such shutdowns.

Javid is Chancellor. Tugendhat, Foreign Secretary. May, Home Secretary. Introducing the Alternative Cabinet.

The real one is widely and correctly dismissed as weak.  So we’ve had a go at assembling a stronger team.  Here is the result.

Iain Dale: How many Cabinet members would make your fantasy Cabinet? I count five. And it gets worse…

Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.

July 4: The businesses that are resuming, the rationale for reopening them and the rules that they face

While pubs and restaurants are happy with the Government’s latest move, there has been backlash from the sports industry.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Prime Minister did not stoop and could not conquer

He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.