Grieve is right. The logic of a Government defeat today leads to a change of leadership – and a general election

Neither Tory MPs nor voters want a poll, but a paralysed Government and Parliament would make one all but unavoidable long before 2022.

John Bald: Higher education should be free to everyone who gets the grades

Grammar school expansion should be focused on extending their sixth forms and opening them up to qualified entrants from other local schools to widen opportunity.

Dominic Cummings, NHS hero

The Vote Leave director is the onlie begetter of this cashfest. But we’ve said it before and say it again: Britain can’t tax its way to prosperity – or a better health service.

Sam Richards: Gove is doing good work for our planet and our Party, but it’s just the beginning

The third piece in our mini-series assessing his performance at DEFRA argues that he is a worthy heir to Tory environmentalism.

The water gets hotter. The frog sinks lower.

Grieve may have backed off yesterday, but the Government backed down. May now risks losing control of her Brexit policy altogether.

Rebecca Newsom: Are Gove’s green words taking root?

This second piece in our mini-series assessing his performance at DEFRA argues that he has taken a few strong first steps – but that real results are needed.

Julian Jessop: Gove’s report card – A for diligence, A for engagement, B for attainment. So far.

In the first of a mini-series assessing his performance at DEFRA, Gove’s willingness to challenge mighty vested interests is put to the test.

Peter Franklin: Physician, heal thyself; think tanks, re-think thyselves

Onward seems set to propound the liberal and Freer the libertarian versions of the globalist agenda. Where does that leave the anti-globalist voters who now back the Tories?

Dean Godson: Our mission to help build a new national consensus

At Policy Exchange, we see prosperity, people, place, and patriotism as the four pillars of a politics which seeks to unite the four nations, town and country, and north and south.

“Capitalism… is not delivering.” Gove’s critique of the system at Policy Exchange. Full text.

“Over recent years innovation has declined, and growth has stalled, because capital has not been allocated to productive investment.”

Our Survey. Next Tory leader. Rees-Mogg leads Gove by less than ten votes in over a thousand. Javid is third.

If, that is, you don’t count “Other”, which comes ahead of the Home Secretary but behind the two front-runners.

The prosecco warms up

The combination of crucial Brexit votes, crumbling ministerial discipline, growing grassroots discontent and a rail crisis serves to intensify pressure on Downing Street.

Javid gives Gove a run for first place in our Cabinet League Table. May is back in negative territory.

And Davis’ rating slides – as the Government’s Brexit difficulties contaminate the approval ratings of others at the top table.

That Gove-Davidson dream ticket

Readers will see that it is all plain sailing for the plan reportedly being cooked up by “Tory grandees”.

Tony Sewell: Brexit, Windrush, and the rebirth of liberal Britain

Even the liberal commentators are having to acknowledge that post-Brexit the country has become more welcoming to migration, not less.