Hunt is partly judging his own legacy. But the Government can still expect him to provide rigorous challenge.

MPs should be allowed to decide if former Ministers are capable of offering independent scrutiny to their successors.

Jess Phillips, Masked Singer?

Her future is 1) Toil away on Labour’s front bench, or 2) Develop a manifesto from the backbenches. Or 3)…

WATCH: Phillips – “I’m definitely open to different models around decriminalisation.”

She says that she’s open to the conversation because the full-on prohibition of illegal drugs isn’t working.

Labour leadership contenders are lurching to the Left to placate Corbynistas

The dismay the electorate showed for them last is being ignored. That makes it much harder for whoever becomes the Leader of the Opposition to establish any credibility.

WATCH: Bit late now 3) Phillips says that “Offering people free broadband was just not believable”

“We have got to be able to connect with people and take on Boris Johnson on the things he’s failing on.”

All the Labour leadership contenders have a credibility gap in their condemnations of anti-semitism

They knew that British Jews were frightened of the prospect of a Corbyn Government. They knew those fears were valid. Yet Phillips and Nandy carried on campaigning.

Will Starmer prove to be the new Kinnock?

After the 1983 defeat, Labour’s electoral progress was slow. This time around the Party will face further decline without a bold change in direction.

Unfit for office. But worse even than Corbyn are Labour’s moderates – who are willing to put his anti-Jewish racism into power.

Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.

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.