Chris Whitehouse: A small, sleepy backwater? No, with a Conservative council the Isle of Wight is fizzing with enterprise and innovation

Improvements for tourism, the environment and road works … and we’re proposing to go big on beach huts.

Iain Dale: I’m not out to get Bercow, but I believe that his time is up

Plus: Willetts loses at least one of his brains. Labour frets about losing Lewisham East (which it shouldn’t do). And: Morgan and Clarke, not the Brexiteers, are the real obsessives.

WATCH: Rees-Mogg – “You’d have thought” Project Fear “would have come to an end by now”

In reference to Clark’s comments earlier, the leader of the ERG points to previous discreditations of the “scare-story” approach.

If Brexit really is ‘above party politics’, Greening can’t complain about the ERG

Either the EU is an issue over which one should put conscience before whip, or it’s not.

Our Next Tory Leader survey. Rees-Mogg leads Gove by two votes in over a thousand

The survey went out as Javid replaced Rudd, and he has bounced up to become the only other person polled who gets into double figures.

The Moggcast. “Completely idiotic” customs partnership idea “should be knocked on the head”

Rees-Mogg argues the ‘hostile environment’ immigration policy was a product of Home Office failure. And: why “the transition deal is a bad deal” and a mistake.

The risks to May if she backs off leaving the Customs Union

“I’m not saying that there would be an organised push, but the letters would just go in to Graham Brady,” one senior pro-Leave backbencher told this site yesterday.

Rees-Mogg tops our Next Tory Leader survey for the third month running

The changes in the ratings of the top three are almost unchanged, another tribute to the consistency of the poll.

Mark Ellse: Conservatives must become better at choosing their political language

Adopting the lexicon of the left muddles our thinking and undermines proper understanding of our positions.

Are Brexiteer MPs paper tigers?

At each turn to date, they have decided that the best shouldn’t be the enemy of the good. Which suggests that they won’t vote against any heads of agreement – however imperfect.

Ben Roback: British politics is sliding towards America’s new tribal norm

From the politicisation of committees and the near-deification of Corbyn to the absurd ‘fake news’ row over ‘Hatgate’, the parallels are troubling.

The Moggcast. “Russia is a rogue state”, and we should use “a Magnitsky-style law” to “target people close to the Kremlin”

Why he believes Brexit will make life harder for Putin. Plus: Can Hammond hold course in today’s Spring Statement? And how does faith fit into public life?

WATCH: Rees-Mogg – “I recognise all of us have to compromise to some extent”

The leader of the European Research Group explains why he is supporting the Prime Minister’s overall negotiating strategy.

Profile: Esther McVey, who scares and infuriates Labour by reaching the northerners it has neglected

The Work and Pensions Secretary has a genuine belief in social mobility and is magnificently unabashed under fire.

David Jones: Brexit. Why we must all now ready ourselves for no deal – and WTO terms

That means commissioning physical and digital infrastructure and recruiting necessary personnel. It also means offering tangible reassurance to business.