What a pro-consumer Conservative housing strategy might look like

The Government has to balance the need to get lots more houses built with its duty to protect buyers from unscrupulous builders.

Henry Newman: Even if the Government concedes on an EU customs union, membership of it looks unsustainable. Here’s why.

Can we really imagine ministers rejecting Justin Trudeau’s trade deal offer, or one from the American administration, or from Australia and New Zealand?

Berger on anti-semitism: “People have accused me of having two masters…that I am Tel Aviv’s servant…a paid-up Israeli operative.”

We reproduce the Labour MP’s full speech from yesterday’s Commons debate on the issue, in which she called on her party to expel Livingstone.

Chris Grayling: The argument for capitalism over socialism cannot be won with a history lesson

We need to illustrate how the wonders of today’s world would never have been created by an all-powerful state.

WATCH: Javid on antisemitism – “We cannot ignore the particular concern with elements within the Labour Party”

“Nor can we ignore the fact that this increasing concern has correlated with the current Leader of the Opposition, and the activists that have come with him.”

WATCH: John Mann tells the Commons that his wife has been threatened with rape by a leftist anti-semite

“I didn’t expect my daughter to be rung by Special Branch to check her movements in this country.”

WATCH: Thornberry – “It cannot be Donald Trump and a couple of allies deciding unilaterally” on Syria

“We have been here before, when we have not had clear evidence about weapons of mass destruction.”

WATCH: “I want to see incontrovertible evidence” – Corbyn still won’t say Russia was responsible for the Salisbury attack

“Do you agree with John McDonnell, who said this was…state-sponsored?” “If we’re going to make an…assertion like that we’ve got to have the absolute evidence…”

Richard Salt: If Conservatives want to win the next election, we must Think North

As so many elections have shown in the past, both the main parties only win elections when they move into the centre.

May’s gambit. To blame Assad not for one attack, but for “a persistent pattern of behaviour”.

She cited the attack in Salisbury: “We cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalised….in Syria, on the streets of the UK…

If there is a Commons vote on Syria, the willingness of Labour rebels to support action could make all the difference

In 2013, Conservative rebels joined with Labour to sink Cameron’s plan. Might the reverse happen five years later?

Syria. May’s calculation and the dangers of a May miscalculation – to others and to her

She will be feeling a hand of history on her shoulder, and wondering if the other holds a knife at her back.

Daniel Hannan: Corbyn’s first instinct in a national crisis is to treat it as a way to attack the Tories – much to Putin’s satisfaction

Ask one question: In what conflict has Jeremy Corbyn ever been on Britain’s side? He always finds a way of blaming the world’s problems on the West.

Let’s suppose missile strikes target the Assad regime. But afterwards chemical weapons are used again in Syria. What then?

Reports this morning suggest conflict within the Government and hesitation in America. And no wonder.

The nine most Barry Gardiner things that Barry Gardiner has ever done

If Barry Gardiner lasts for a thousand years, men will still say: “These were his finest hours”.