Emily Carver: The Government’s plan to make exams easier will be devastating for this country’s education system

The Department of Education wants to address school disruption by “reducing pressure” on students.

The threat of Scottish independence. Is it business as usual? First, pre-election panic. Then the vote. And finally…back to complacency.

Some of the measures announced so far are popular, but there is frustration at the slow pace and lack of coherence.

Henry Hill: If Wales is last to unlock, will Welsh business pay the price for our disjointed approach to Covid-19?

When the rules are set in Cardiff Bay and the tab is picked up in London, there are lots of cracks to fall through.

Bim Afolami: The Government’s Net Gain initiative will be transformative – but its implementation must be sped up

By all indications, we are about to voluntarily delay this policy, which risks the destruction of 19,288 ha of habitat.

Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 3) The dissolution and calling of Parliament Bill

Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.

Yes, the row over the Protocol really is about the British sausage

It’s also about much more, of course. But the wrangle over a legal principle is also over the consequences of enforcing it.

In defence of Theresa May

If more former Ministers stayed in the Commons, it would be a more effective chamber.

Hollywood’s erasure of Cruella de Vil’s smoking habit is pointless and dull. Companies, and the state, must stop telling people what to do.

This ‘nudge’ instinct is all too common in corporations, which view themselves as guiding forces on health, morality, politics, and actually most things.

Cummings Reborn – as the champion of Parliament. He has given MPs more power, so leaving the inquiry with less.

Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.

Profile: Penny Mordaunt. Ambitious, socially liberal, sacked, then rehabilitated, restive, military-flavoured – and on manoeuvres.

In place of deviations from the Number Ten line have come the squashing of Rayner and even a comparison of the PM to Churchill.

Brady v Goodwill. The 1922 Chairman election isn’t just about the contenders. At its heart will be Tory MPs’ view of Johnson.

Should he be handcuffed under public restraint, like a suspect watched by Priti Patel? Or freed to run wild through Alpine meadows, like Julie Andrews?

WATCH: Sturgeon criticises “lack of respect for Scottish democracy that this UK government has demonstrated over quite some time”

She says it would be “absurd and completely outrageous” if it challenged the Scottish parliament in court over legislation on another referendum.

WATCH: Scotland is allowed to leave the union through a legal referendum, says Gove

“Of course it [can leave]”, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster tells Marr.

WATCH: “We’re not going to go there” – Gove on whether legislation could pass for a second Scottish independence referendum

But he adds that he is “determined” to work with Sturgeon “in dealing with the immediate problems we face.”

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.