Race and justice – not just a black and white issue

As a rule, the Conservatives are unclear about the politics of equality and identity. But there’s at least one Minister who isn’t.

The calm before the reshuffle? Our first Cabinet League Table of 2020

The month-on-month stability in our rankings highlights against just how much an overall majority has calmed British politics.

Triumphator Johnson – our final Cabinet League Table of 2019

The Prime Minister heads a Cabinet whose stock has risen markedly in the wake of this month’s decisive election victory.

WATCH: Kwarteng – Now is the time for Farage to step aside

“It’s obvious to many people now that the only we’re going to be able to get Brexit done is under a Conservative Government.”

Cabinet League Table: Johnson takes the gold – with Javid in second place

Not a good month for the Foreign Secretary, who slips from third place to eighth. But this is probably just due to the rising popularity of others.

Javid keeps the gold but Johnson and Rees-Mogg fail to medal in our Cabinet League Table

Brexiteers retain their stranglehold on the top of the chart, but there is a general downward drift. Is it a foretaste of what might happen if we fail to leave the EU next month?

Javid, Johnson, and Rees-Mogg hold their podium slots in our Cabinet League Table

The data for this was collected before the Government’s string of Commons defeats – next month’s may look rather different.

WATCH: UK will leave on 31 October “with or without” a deal – Kwarteng

On reports of food, fuel and drug shortages, he says there’s been “scaremongering”.

Javid pips Johnson and Rees-Mogg to the top of the podium in our first Cabinet League Table of the new Government

Meanwhile Ruth Davidson, so often one of the highest-scoring politicians, is at the bottom of the chart after her row with Johnson and strong line against No Deal.

Full list of Cabinet appointments

A rolling list of all the senior members of the new Government. As we write, we have the Cabinet list plus those entitled to attend.

Johnson’s shuffle. If one asks for decisiveness – for an end to drift – don’t complain when it’s delivered.

We have the Government that we should have had then, ready to counter the charge that Vote Leave scurried away from Brexit, rather than manning up to deliver it.

Neva Sadikoglu-Novaky and Jonathan Werran: Brexit gives the chance to have full fiscal devolution. Let’s take it.

Through tax competition, we could truly have a real Northern Powerhouse and give cities in the north a fairer chance against London and the south east.

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?

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.”