Willetts revives our question. What should Tories tax?

Wanted: a grand bargain with voters, whereby some rises at the top end are traded off for others nearer the bottom.

Raab and Stewart. Our survey’s top Ministerial choices for Cabinet promotion.

Jo Johnson is third. Then Greg Hands and Matt Hancock. But those who lead the results may be no less likely to go up than those who trail them.

The Conservative MPs most likely next to make the Cabinet are those you may not have heard of

The Mercers, Tugendhats and Cleverlys get a lot of media coverage. However, most promotions come from the ranks of the toiling Ministers of State.

Benedict Rogers: The plight of Burma’s Muslims is stoking Islamist extremism here – one of many reasons why Britain must act

Britain should call in the Burmese ambassador, suspend its training programme with the Burma Army, and continue to press at the UN.

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower calamity – and regardless of it – asserting property rights is not enough

A Conservative MP has led the way in proposing how London could be rebalanced away from the super-rich and back towards the mass of its citizens.

Iain Dale: Did the Chief Whip knife Jones – and other pro-Leave Ministers – in this reshuffle?

Plus: Let’s have no sympathy for Farron. He didn’t give straight answers to straight questions, and is thus the cause of his own downfall.

Norman to Transport. Rolling reshuffle list of junior appointments.

A summary of the news from the junior ranks to date. Announcements of appointments yet to conclude.

How the Conservatives are rebuilding their links with the Republicans – and will work with America’s President-elect

After a long chill, relations between the sister parties are thawing.

McLoughlin announces new top CCHQ team – including a Vice-Chairman for Training

Namely, Anthea McIntyre – an experienced political hand who, like the Party Chairman, cut her political teeth in the Young Conservatives.

Mark Field: Yes, we need more grammars – but also more technical and vocational schools

Far from a throwback to the past, the public needs urgently to see that this welcome debate is about equipping us for a post-Brexit future.

Mark Field: Denmark and Sweden are key allies as we negotiate a new future outside the EU

Our Nordic partners favour free trade, reject federalism and want to protect non-Eurozone members.

We ask our panel: What did you think of the Autumn Statement and Spending Review?

Including contributions from Andrew Boff, Natalie Elphicke, Mark Field MP, Alan Mak MP, Sean Worth and Zehra Zaidi.

No surveillance on the scale proposed. But politicians should lead on terror warrants. The Investigatory Powers Bill.

We agonise about how much oversight the state should have over us. But government is only going where others can also go, and often do.

The Government’s real problem is not the Lords, but the Commons

Tory MPs would have forced changes to Osborne’s tax credit plan in any event. Are they really up for the tough decisions that deficit reduction requires?

Turmoil in China – and in the markets. In praise of Mark Field, who last year saw trouble coming

Cronyism, pollution, mounting debt, poorly allocated capital spending and the social consequences of rapid change have all been hanging over the Dragon economy.