Jonathan Clark: Is it time to sweep away our political parties – and clear the decks for Leave v Remain?

The electorate are less and less convinced by such arguments about party identity and destiny. Far underground, the tectonic plates are moving.

Clegg’s career choice reflects how the House of Lords has become diminished

Parliament is struggling to retain senior figures. New peers should be chosen on their ability to raise the calibre of debate.

Bob Seely: Yes, Brexit and leadership are important. But so’s everything else. Here are some ideas for the future.

Scrap HS2. Integrate social care. Abolish NI. Reverse police cuts. Consider a new Bill of Rights. And much, much more.

Rebecca Lowe: The Conservatives and women. The Tory electoral challenge has more to do with age than gender.

Rather than wasting time with forays into positive discrimination, the Conservatives should weight the merits of various forms of increased flexibility at work.

PPS mini-shuffle: nine changes in the line-up

Hall becomes PPS to the Party Chairman; Cartlidge follows Hunt to the Foreign Office; Chalk appointed PPS to the Health Secretary.

Ed Hall: Yes, a No Deal Armageddon will deliver chaos – to French farmers, German car makers, Italian designers and Spanish property owners

Extreme Remainers have inadvertently invented the Chaos Bonkers Brexit Gambit.

Brexit. What May should do next. Replace Robbins with Davis – and prepare for No Deal.

Since she might not get an acceptable agreement, or indeed any at all, the Government must strain to get Ready for Day One, not Ready for Day 730.

WATCH: Viscount Hailsham – “I don’t believe in Brexit. I think it’s a national calamity.”

Asked about his “sabotage” amendment, the peer formerly known as Douglas Hogg admits negotiating with the Labour front bench on the topic.

WATCH: Lord True – “People outside this House are getting a little bit tired of Parliamentary games”

“They want to know when they are going to get Brexit, when it will be delivered, and when it will be done”.

WATCH: Buckland – “Where we stand, we support the government’s amendment as tabled”

But, he adds, “I’m not going to gainsay what the Lords will produce”, and “the Lords are just as important an element in this as the Commons”.

WATCH: Grieve says “I had a really sensible outcome and I was very pleased with it”…

…but that now, “We might as well have not done the whole negotiation”.

Davis fights back

The Brexit Secretary has taken control of the Government’s dealings with Grieve – for the moment, anyway. Watch for further twists and turns.

Sheila Lawlor: The Lords’ amendments are legally unnecessary and economically counter-productive

They assume that no deal would be a disaster, but in fact the £40 billion we’re set to pay the EU could be a real boost to the British economy.

The water gets hotter. The frog sinks lower.

Grieve may have backed off yesterday, but the Government backed down. May now risks losing control of her Brexit policy altogether.

Guide to the key Commons votes on the EU Withdrawal Bill

Some divisions on House of Lords amendments are expected to be closer than others. MPs will have further deliberations tomorrow…