Our Cabinet League Table. Wallace top again, Patel up, Johnson down – and Sunak in the red

A pattern is beginning to form below the Defence Secretary, with Truss, Zahawi and Trevelyan coming in variously at second, third and fourth.

Prepare for attacks on Johnson’s authority to pronounce on law and order

The Home Secretary’s reticence in publicly backing the Prime Minister reflects concern from those enforcing the law about defending those seen to break it.

WATCH: Malthouse defends Sunak and his wife over tax

Murty recognises that her tax arrangements “offended” a “sense of fair play”, he says.

WATCH: Sunak’s political career not at risk – Malthouse

Chancellor “has been a remarkable force for good”, according to policing minister.

Our Cabinet League Table. Sunak plunges to third from bottom.

Meanwhile, Johnson is out of negative ratings for the first time in three months – and in comparative mid-table safety.

Kit Malthouse: How the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill protects women and girls

It will deliver the necessary tools to defend the public from a broad range of harms and deliver justice for victims.

Our Cabinet League Table. Truss’s year-long reign is ended as Wallace goes top.

Johnson is still in negative ratings, though less so, and Sunak’s score is at its lowest since he became Chancellor.

Our Cabinet League Table: Johnson falls to his lowest ever negative rating.

And Ministers associated with support for Covid restrictions suffer noticeable falls in their scores.

Tony Devenish: Khan’s focus has switched from London to his Labour leadership ambitions

House price growth is driving many Londoners to move out. The Mayor is failing to respond to this – or to the other challenges we face.

Truss top, Wallace second, Sunak down, Gove up – and Johnson sixth from bottom in our post-shuffle Cabinet League Table

There is a willingness to give the new Cabinet a chance, but nervousness about the country’s economic prospects and the Party’s strategic direction.

Ten questions for Johnson’s reshuffle

Among them are: what does he do about economic policy? Who runs Downing Street? And: what about the Home and Foreign Offices?

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.