WATCH: Kwarteng insists the Government has “a good shot” at winning the vote

“The argument is a strong argument. I think the deal is a strong deal. I wouldn’t have taken up my post if I didn’t believe that the deal delivers the Brexit vote.”

WATCH: Kwarteng contradicts Prime Minister’s suggestion that Brexit might be cancelled

“On the 30th March one thing is certain, that we will have left the EU. But if the deal is voted down that would prolong uncertainty and chaos.”

Hammond, Penrose, and Kwarteng join the Government as May circles the wagons

The Prime Minister has eschewed the chance to bind waverers with patronage in favour of promoting able loyalists who won’t make trouble.

List of PPS’s

It doesn’t seem to be complete yet, but here are as many of the appointments as have been released to date.

Iain Dale: This reshuffle could have promoted and prioritised housing. But all we got was a name change.

Plus: The mystery of the missing Kwasi Kwarteng. The presence of the ebullient Brandon Lewis. The absence and recovery of Nick de Bois. Plus: Capita’s failures.

Interview: The double-hatted Suella Fernandes – both a member of the Government and a pro-Leave group leader

She points to the opportunities to imitate New Zealand agriculture, and to crack down on big businesses which evade tax.

Parliamentary Private Secretaries: full list

Seema Kennedy becomes the Prime Minister’s second PPS. Brexiteer Kwasi Kwarteng is PPS to Philip Hammond. And much, much more.

Flashback: “Wazzock…buffoon…bigot” – when Tory MPs debated banning Trump from the UK

Others applauded him for “straight-talking” and argued the proposal was about silencing concerns about immigration.

The full PPS list. One third Leavers. One third women. And ninety per cent May supporters.

There’s one undeniable trend among those promoted: they backed the winning candidate.

The majority of ethnic minority Conservative MPs are backing Leave

Meanwhile, Leave campaigners are pitching targeted messages to voters from a non-EU background.

Kwarteng’s full speech against banning Trump from Britain

The Spelthorne MP made the case that such a ban would be ‘a spectacular own goal’.

It’s time for the Centre-Right media to get serious about spending cuts

How the deficit is to be reduced matters far, far more than how it is calculated.

Andy Silvester: It’s time for more honesty from the parties about spending reductions

Miliband yesterday. Osborne. Clegg. Farage. If they trusted people a bit more, they might be pleasantly surprised by the result.

We need more Kwartengs in the Commons. We risk having fewer.

Should backbenchers really be on-message clones – or risk having their views reported when they stray off it?

What Tory parliamentarians want to see in the Budget

By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter With the Budget less than a couple of weeks away, I thought it would be… Read more »