Ayesha Azad and Mark Pengelly: In Woking, we are determined that council tenants must have the chance of home ownership

Our innovative Earn Your Deposit Scheme would give the young a real chance to get on the housing ladder.

Hard lessons for May from leadership contests of the past

Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”

WATCH: Heseltine – “the case for sacking Boris is very strong”

Except, the former Deputy Prime Minister adds, that “the danger of doing it” is “perhaps a bigger risk”.

Iain Dale: As May speaks in Florence, I’m here in Berlin – watching Merkel preparing her own return to office

Plus: Osborne’s regrets, vintage Heseltine – and, after Germany, to Brighton, for what is claimed to be the biggest conference Labour has ever held.

David Jeffery: How divisions among Leave-backing MPs helped May to win the last leadership election

Those who voted against same-sex marriage were more likely to support Leadsom than those who voted for the legislation, whilst the opposite was true for Gove.

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

WATCH: Heseltine blames Brexit

He calls it a “cancer at the heart of the Conservative Party”.

Peter Lilley: That £350 million figure. The EU’s negotiating position shows it to be less of an exaggeration than has been claimed.

It makes spending commitments which exceed the amounts it budgets to spend. Those escalating commitments…will approach E250 billion by the time we leave.

Andrew Green: The Lords amendment designed to derail Brexit that MPs should reject today

It is intended to create a means by which peers and MPs can seek to hold up leaving the EU.

Thatcher didn’t dare sack Heseltine. But now May has done so.

His position as an adviser was more than decorative and he will be a loss. But as someone or other once put it, there is no alternative.

WATCH: Heseltine’s response to his sacking

“I had to make that speech today…and if the Prime Minister can’t live with that, I have to respect her right to sack me.”

Profile: Ben Gummer – the most important Minister whose role you’ve never heard of

Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.

Interview: Andy Street believes he can put a knife through Labour’s heart in the West Midlands

He says that while Birmingham itself and Solihull are particularly buoyant, large parts of the region feel that they have missed out on growth.

Iain Dale: John Howard, Australia’s great centre-right election winner, backs Leave

Plus: John Rees-Evans’s bizarrre views. May’s flourishing line in jokes. Trump’s chances of winning. And: let Article 50 be put to a vote in Parliament and let’s get on with it.

Thatcher confesses to strangling Heseltine

“I was devoted to Michael, his coat was so long and glossy.”