Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.

WATCH: “I’m not sure there is life left in Chequers,” Morgan concedes

The search for supporters of the Prime Minister’s plan continues.

Davidson says “I will not be a candidate.” Where does the Tory left look for a leadership contender?

One can conjure up the names of former Ministers, present Ministers and backbenchers. But only one of them presently sits at the Cabinet table.

Davis, Hinds, Brokenshire, Hancock, Clark, Wright – ConHome’s full Party Conference fringe programme is now live

Speakers include eight Secretaries of State, the Mayor of the West Midlands, and many more.

Javid, Johnson, Williamson, Morgan, Street – and more. ConHome’s Party Conference programme.

We will have the ConHome marquee as usual plus another venue. Full details coming soon.

The Treasury donkey

The irony is that Hammond is appallingly placed to persuade voters that No Deal really does carry risks.

WATCH: Morgan – May is a “realist” who no longer “thinks in terms of Leave and Remain”

The former education secretary says that “the fact that the rest of do just shows the total lack of a healing process”.

Stephen Hammond’s loss and Phillip Lee’s win. Full list of Conservatives who rebelled on Trade Bill amendments.

The presence of four Labour Leavers helped the UK to avoid a customs union – but their absence on a more minor amendment produced a Government defeat.

Iain Dale: It was Phillip Lee, but could have been me

Plus: Damian Collins and his useless Select Committee shot themselves in the foot this week. Let grandstanding committee chairmen be warned.

Alex Morton: The EU negotiation. First, let’s use the velvet glove. But if that doesn’t work, the iron fist.

We need to be tough – without a deal, they should get no money from us, reduced troop levels in Eastern Europe, less help on refugee issues in the Mediterranean.

Henry Newman: Navigating the EU Withdrawal Bill through unamended without a majority is nightmarish – but possible

Labour have sunk efforts to trap us in the Single Market. A compromise should kick the Customs Union can down the road. Which leaves the ‘meaningful’ vote.

Henry Hill: SNP blueprint for independence alienates left-wing supporters

Also: female Tories press the Prime Minister for action on Ulster abortion law; and Davies urges Party to unite over Brexit.

Britain and abortion. Women are more likely to support new restrictions.

It’s a counter-intuitive take – but it’s what the sum of opinion polling in recent years tends to suggest.

If May listened to the Gang of Three and stayed in the Customs Union she would not survive

David Miliband, Nicky Morgan and Nick Clegg are urging from the sidelines a breach of faith with the British people on Brexit.

WATCH: Morgan says she’s not ‘entirely surprised’ at Johnson keeping his job

“I think we’re all surprised though by quite how wide the bounds of collective responsibility are being stretched now.”