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.

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.

Our last pre-election Cabinet League Table. It’s a near-tie at the top: Javid, Gove, Johnson, in that order.

Whilst individual ministers rise and fall, overall the Government goes to the polls with a lot of goodwill from grassroots Conservatives.

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.

The rebels – 21 Tory and two Labour – on the Letwin SO24 motion

Mark Spencer has reportedly rung round to inform them that they have lost the Whip.

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 reshuffle. Live Blog. Seven of his leadership rivals get jobs. Rees-Mogg in as Leader of the House.

We can now see the new Government taking shape, after a dramatic bout of sackings and new appointments at the top.

Chris White: What will the new Prime Minister’s Parliamentary options be on Brexit?

If Boris Johnson wants to pursue a No Deal exit, then he will have a fight on his hands with MPs.

Congratulations – and welcome to hell

The new Prime Minister will inherit the worst political legacy in living memory – with the very barest of working majorities.

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?

Profile: David Lidington – the Tory loyalist diverging from his leader over Brexit. And now tipped as her successor.

At the heart of May’s operation, this staunch Conservative is now mulling potential ways to a second referendum with Labour MPs.