One, two, three – and now Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the fourth time

And Williamson’s negative rating halves in the wake of his intervention in the Batley Mohammed cartoons row.

Jonathan Werran: Why Oxford should be a focal point for post-pandemic and post-Brexit growth

It contributes a tidy £6.75 billion in GVA to the national economy each year as a net contributor to Treasury coffers.

Greg Clark: Why we formed our industrial strategy. What it achieved. And how my successor can build on it.

It’s hard to think that the right future is to be a less research-intensive country than the rest of the world, and so I hope our commitment will endure.

Sanjoy Sen: The Government and Stellantis. Picking winners is rarely a popular concept among Tories but it’s often a reality.

Kwarteng needs to be confident that the company’s electric plan for Ellesmere Port looks credible before committing taxpayer money.

John Macdonald: Are the Tories becoming the party of high taxes and picking industrial winners?

The second piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.

Our Cabinet League Table. Truss is still top, Johnson is up again – and Kwarteng comes straight in at fourth.

The Brexit deal bounce in our final survey of last year has left little room for a vaccine bounce in the first survey of this one.

Profile. Kwarteng Unchained. The rise, wobble and rise of the big, bold, bright new Business Secretary

As soon as the emphasis shifts from surviving the pandemic to reviving the economy, he will become a key figure.

The short sharp shuffle. Sharma takes on COP26 full-time. Kwarteng steps up a rung to become Business Secretary.

This minimalist manoeuvre, carried out in graveyard news time, suggests that a bigger reshuffle has been postponed until the other side of the year.

Dean Godson: The new ethnic minority voices who are challenging left-wing orthodoxy on race and culture

The membership of a new Government commission represents a significant evolution in the story of these issues in Britain – and within the Conservatives.

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?