The forty-two Conservative MPs who voted against the Government on the 10pm curfew

That’s the biggest Tory revolt so far on a virus-related division, and enough potentially to defeat the Government in future.

“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.

Election Battlegrounds 4) East of England

Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.

The ten candidates who will contest the Conservative Party’s leadership election

So no more dropouts after Sam Gyimah’s departure earlier this afternoon. The first ballot will be held on Thursday.

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

Mordaunt: Let’s champion “the invisible women who keep…our nation going.” Her women’s suffrage centenary speech: full text

“There’s a lot of focus on women in boardrooms…But this is not the place where business is being re-imagined.”

The shuffle. May’s women gap.

It is hard to appoint more women to Cabinet when there are few senior women to promote. We count only four at Minister of State level.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: We must not neglect the mental health of autistic people

Within the autism community, almost eight in ten will experience a mental health problem at some point in their life. The NHS must provide better support.

Iain Dale: Did the Chief Whip knife Jones – and other pro-Leave Ministers – in this reshuffle?

Plus: Let’s have no sympathy for Farron. He didn’t give straight answers to straight questions, and is thus the cause of his own downfall.

Battleground Seats 11) East of England

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

From Reggie to Dessie: The toils of Sarah Newton. Pigswill for Rory Stewart. And is Kris Hopkins the Caring Whip?

Plus: The SNP take over a bar, a rumpus at Women to Win, no booze at Steve Hilton’s book launch…and from Russia with Love to Soames.

This victory was predicted: Conservative candidates knew they were doing better than the polls said

It was perfectly possible to foresee where undecided voters were likely to go when at last they got round to making up their minds.

Election sketch: Jackie Doyle-Price – not drowning but waving in Thurrock

In this marginal seat on the Thames estuary, Team Jackie take to an open-top bus in an attempt to foil UKIP and Labour, and Farage gains a Hitler moustache.

The Election Battleground 4) East of England

The fourth in our series investigates the East of England, where the minor parties are making their presence felt in a traditional Tory-Labour front.

Graeme Archer: Populism will eat ourselves: let’s not return to the Forbidden Planet

As Conservatives it’s our job to acknowledge our gut instinct but also mediate it with morality and pragmatism.