Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.

Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.

Andrew Haldenby: Cameron was right to bury Labour’s targets regime. Johnson shouldn’t now seek to resurrect it.

If Ministers don’t trust the police to use the extra officers, why did they decide to recruit them in the first place?

Marc Jones: Sobriety tags on offenders who commit crimes while under the influence of alcohol can makes us safer

There is no doubt that innovation is needed to tackle a problem which is a blight on communities across the UK.

Javid is Chancellor. Tugendhat, Foreign Secretary. May, Home Secretary. Introducing the Alternative Cabinet.

The real one is widely and correctly dismissed as weak.  So we’ve had a go at assembling a stronger team.  Here is the result.

Latest ministerial appointments: Badenoch, Ford, Malthouse, and Whittingdale amongst those taking up new posts

The Prime Minister has also chosen not to tinker with the whips, in contrast to the habit of both his predecessors.

Iain Dale: My reshuffle predictions. The Prime Minister believes he has delivered for his supporters – and now owes them nothing.

Plus: A sofa, two dogs, no cup of tea – and my Brexit evening. And: the pre-eminence of Policy Exchange.

Nicholas Boys Smith: New homes and places can and should be beautiful

Yesterday’s announcement of Government’s design guidance is a very welcome step in the right direction.

WATCH: “We need to get the numbers back up”, says Malthouse

“It will be the biggest expansion of policing – probably – ever,” according the Policing Minister.

Johnson’s ministerial appointments

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

ConHome’s Ministerial recommendations: how did we do and what did we learn?

The key to promotion in this shuffle wasn’t primarily having backed Leave – it was supporting Johnson.

Johnson is set to face an early general election. His Cabinet must be ruthlessly shaped to fight it – on a No Deal platform.

Its members must be signed up to leaving on October 31. Here’s a rough draft of what the top team might look like.

This week’s winner in the Tory leadership election is…Johnson

The vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.

Scandal of the council-owned empty garages continues

Our survey identified 15,875 of them. Many of these could be redeveloped to provide new homes.

Now Malthouse withdraws from the leadership election. “There is an appetite for this contest to be over quickly.”

He leaves the field as the 1922 Committee agrees and announces rules for the conduct of the election.

Message to the ’22: please speed up the ballots

We see no reason why the bottom three, say, shouldn’t fall out each time – rather than just the one, as previously.