Shapps has spotted a once-in-a-lifetime chance to give Britain world-class railways

The Transport Secretary has set up a reform committee which is getting ready to use the pandemic to rout the Luddites in the rail unions.

This hatchet man in a hurry casts no new light on Johnson, except to show him as a vulnerable child

An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.

Tony Devenish: The Greater London Authority is undermining localism

If the Mayor is incapable of doing his job, the Government will have to call in the inspectors to take charge.

Profile: Munira Mirza, the Muslim from Oldham who leads Johnson’s Policy Unit

The Prime Minister is being urged to employ more women, but here is one who already makes it difficult for him to get away with sloppy thinking.

Alex Crowley: Why is a Conservative Government excluding two million microbusiness owners from financial support?

The Small Business Grant scheme should cover these businesses – and the furloughing plan allow sole company directors to work.

“If you go ‘transgender rights are our big thing’, you are going to lose that culture war”

How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.

Johnson’s critics are confronted by the dreadful possibility that he will make a success of Brexit

It is dawning on them that they may have underestimated him. Hence the newly hysterical note in their denunciations.

Fifteen years after I started writing about Johnson, one might almost think his time has come

Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Johnson has a successful launch, but the feral beasts are not happy

He is doing well because managerialism and bureaucratic language are not enough.

Kevin Davis: Each London borough should have its own directly elected mayor

This change would mean streamlined decision making. It would also allow greater devolution in areas such as policing and NHS primary care.

McDonnell’s new spinner wants voters to learn all about the time Livingstone sacked him for messing up London’s finances

He might need to read up on his new boss’s record a little more closely.

WATCH: Maybe Livingstone should just, like, y’know, stop saying Hitler?

As he does it again, we run Mark Wallace’s tribute to the former London Mayor’s greatest hit(ler)s.

WATCH: Khan – “On the evidence I’ve seen,” Livingstone should be expelled from Labour

“There can be no place in our party for anyone with racist views…I don’t see why it takes so long.”

Berger on anti-semitism: “People have accused me of having two masters…that I am Tel Aviv’s servant…a paid-up Israeli operative.”

We reproduce the Labour MP’s full speech from yesterday’s Commons debate on the issue, in which she called on her party to expel Livingstone.

Sketch: Corbyn spurns Labour’s Jewish members, who demonstrate their sense of utter betrayal

The failure to confront anti-semitism within the Labour Party has led to a total breakdown of trust.