Hugh Byrne and Lucy Mowatt: The case against a tax on sugar

The Conservative priority must instead be to ensure health policy is guided by experts in the field of nutrition, not enthusiastic amateurs spouting sound bites instead of science.

Battlegrounds Revisited 5) London

Both parties hammered the Lib Dems as a clutch of very slender victories gave Labour their point of light on election night.

The Election Battleground 5) London

Our fifth battleground summary explores the capital, where Labour and the Conservatives square off whilst trying to squeeze out the Liberal Democrats.

John Baron MP: NHS transparency on cancer survival rates will be transformational

We could save an additional 5,000 lives a year if we matched European survival rate averages

Brian Monteith: How Ministers got tangled up over tobacco packaging

The Government’s plan is unpopular – and there’s no evidence that it will work.

Would-be Conservative Ministers cut off by F.O.G

The shuffle sends out a clear message to Conservative MPs: stay on the right side of the Chancellor. Theresa May and Boris Johnson should note it too

The reshuffle: evening summary

All in all, a good day for the Centre-Left of the Tory Party, lots of change at the Whips Office…and what the lobbies are bound to see as the demotion of housing.

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove sign up to new Tory-led campaign for same-sex marriage

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter As reported widely in today's written and broadcast media a new Tory-led group has… Read more »

Conservative Select Committee appointments announced

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Guido Fawkes has a list of new Conservative members of Select Committees, from Graham… Read more »

Peter Bone and Philip Hollobone can be proud of their work on the BackBench Business Committee — but it may never be as powerful/ awkward for the govt again if the new members get their way…

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Like Graham Brady I wasn't keen on the nature of some of the electioneering but… Read more »

Tomorrow’s 1922 Committee Elections – nominations in full

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter 8.45pm Update by Matthew Barrett: I have now learned which candidates are being backed by… Read more »

An absence of backbench grovelling to “liberal, practical Conservative” Cameron over Libya

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Grovelling? Yes, let's face it: it happens.  But not yesterday when the Prime Minister… Read more »

Conservative MP for Battersea, Jane Ellison: ‘March your children to the police station’

Conservative MPs give their takes on the Big Society in the first parliamentary debate on the matter

By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday saw MPs debating the merits of the Big Society on a backbench motion moved by Dover's… Read more »

The voice of the anti-EU Tory Right will be heard on the influential new Backbench Business Committee

One of the innovations in this new Parliament is the creation of a BackBench Business Committee which is gaining the… Read more »