Iain Dale: Why shouldn’t the Conservatives welcome back the Kippers?

Plus: Farage and my evenings. Edinburgh and my show. Notre Dame, fire, Macron – and recovery? And: Javid’s emotional intelligence.

Naked flesh does not stop the Brexit debate

The protesters were at length evicted from the Public Gallery, but no one really seemed to be in charge.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May provokes derisive laughter and has exhausted the House’s patience

The Prime Minister looked like a straight actor who is appearing in a Christmas pantomime, in order to become the butt of everyone else’s jokes.

Bercow, the anti-Lenthall. “I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, but as Labour MPs are pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.”

Even the mice in the Commons tea room know that he was put in by one party and is kept there by one party.

Battleground Seats 7) West Midlands

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

Andrew Mitchell: Lippy, serious, funny – and right about women. Meet my Labour neighbour, Jess Phillips.

Her book is full of laugh-out-loud moments. And it has important points to make about violence, trolling and discrimination.

WATCH: Rees-Mogg on Trump and Brexit

He and Jess Phillips review the highlights of the news for Sophie Ridge’s Sky News programme.

What happens if Labour splits?

Any MPs who leave Corbyn’s party would be best protected by a pact with the Lib Dems. But would Farron want to grant one?

Female Labour MPs, not Blairites, could end up bringing down Corbyn

There is a growing sense that he is a “low-level misogynist”. And that many of his allies are even worse.