Our Cabinet League Table feels the Brexit Trade Deal Bounce

Johnson is up to ninth from fifth from bottom, Gove jumps up to near the top quarter, Hancock is clearer from the relegation zone – and Truss stays top.

It is hard to see how a recalled Parliament would now have time to consider a Brexit Trade Bill properly

MPs should be summoned to vote on the new tiering arrangements. Whether they’d have time to consider a trade bill is a different matter.

Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the first time

Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report – and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.

Our Cabinet League Table: Sunak is still top, and Johnson is back in positive territory – just

All in all, it’s much of a muchness – with Douglas Ross down by about 25 points, now that his Party Conference coverage has faded.

Johnson plummets into the bottom third of our Cabinet League table

Last month, he was sixth from top. Now, he is eighth from bottom. Only six Ministers have a satisfaction rating of more than half.

Iain Dale: My end of term report on the Cabinet. Part Two.

By the way, it is a travesty that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Leader of the House aren’t full members.

Our Cabinet League Table: Sunak top, Johnson down again, Patel up – and Williamson and Jenrick in negative territory

That’s the Prime Minister’s lowest score since he entered Downing Street for the first time last summer.

Our survey. Is the Cabinet, which must wrestle with the Coronavirus, fit for purpose?

Four in five of our party member respondents say yes. Hunt is top choice to come in from outside – but there’s no strong support for any non-member.

Andrew Gimson’s Budget sketch: Sunak the model schoolboy dominates the House

The Government has a new star.

Grassroots members stand by Patel in our latest Cabinet League Table

The overall numbers are down slightly after the allegations against the Home Secretary and the Government’s defeat over Heathrow.

Reshuffle 3) Chris White: It isn’t just Ministers who get fired. A third of SpAds are set to lose their jobs.

There will be some bruised personalities on the backbenches who will need careful managing over the next few months, and I hear that Spencer is already on the job.

Iain Dale: My reshuffle predictions. The Prime Minister believes he has delivered for his supporters – and now owes them nothing.

Plus: A sofa, two dogs, no cup of tea – and my Brexit evening. And: the pre-eminence of Policy Exchange.

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.

Profile: Mark Spencer – the power behind the reshuffle and the man who disciplined the Brexit rebels

The Chief Whip is a farmer who recognises that “a lame ewe needs to be put down”.

How to help hold those new Red Wall seats. Introducing the Midlands and Middlesbrough masterclass.

The Whips and CCHQ should utilise the experience of Bretherton, Bradley, Clarke, Hughes and Rowley – all of whom won Labour seats in 2017.