Johnson’s ministerial appointments

We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.

Appointments 5) Quince rejoins the Government at Work & Pensions

He resigned in December over Brexit, but has now been promoted from PPS to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.

Appointments 1) Tomlinson now Minister of State at Work & Pensions

The Prime Minister has started filling some of the extraordinary number of vacancies in her ministry we identified this morning.

Iain Dale: My by-election bond with Fallon, who’s as human as the rest of us

Plus: What it was like being gay and a Tory – and being sexually assaulted in the “Brief Encounter” – during the vanished world of the 1990s.

Ros Altmann should be sacked

Numbers 10 and 11 say that she attacked Duncan Smith without their approval. They can prove it by removing her as Pensions Minister.

Interview: “The power of such laws is that they change attitudes.” Hague on the 20th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.

Opposed by Clarke and Heseltine, supported by Lilley and Portillo and backed by John Major as Prime Minister, it was the former Tory leader’s “proudest achievement”.

Hague’s great achievement. The 20th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act takes place next week.

It deserves to be honoured as part of the great tradition of Conservative social reforming legislation.

Iain Dale: The best and worst Conservative leaders. Who do you nominate?

Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.

Greg Clark MP: Rod Bluh, David Renard, and the success of Conservative Swindon

Ed Miliband said last month that the council leader is doing a very good job. He was absolutely right. But he was not aware that the leader in question is a Tory.

Justin Tomlinson MP and Robin Walker MP: How to protect vulnerable people who turn to payday lenders

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Justin Tomlinson MP: How to revamp our libraries

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