The risks to May if she backs off leaving the Customs Union

“I’m not saying that there would be an organised push, but the letters would just go in to Graham Brady,” one senior pro-Leave backbencher told this site yesterday.

David Jones: Brexit. Why we must all now ready ourselves for no deal – and WTO terms

That means commissioning physical and digital infrastructure and recruiting necessary personnel. It also means offering tangible reassurance to business.

WATCH: Morgan – “Mutual recognition of regulations is the way to go”

The Treasury Select Committee chair says that “we will continue to look for any drift back to some kind of ideological hard Brexit.”

Peter Thompson: The inconsistencies, contortions and self-contradictions of the case for votes at 16

On what basis would they then be prevented from appearing in pornography? Should they then not be tried as adults and sent to adult prisons? And so on.

Votes at 16. Handle with care.

We feel a commission, a working group, an inquiry coming in – to look these inconsistencies, accidents of history and quirks, to see if some tidying-up is required.

After his success on reading, Gibb gets his way on times tables

The Schools Minister has been a near-constant presence at the forefront of educational reform. It’s good that Hinds is listening to him.

Higher taxes. Social insurance. New Commissions. Reforming NI. Debate on health and social care gathers pace.

But the collapse of the Tory manifesto social care plan, plus the Government’s lack of a workable Commons majority, all but rule out radical change to the system.

The eleven Tory rebels who helped to defeat the Government

Some would-be rebels switched sides at the last minute, while at least three others abstained.

Our survey’s write-in Cabinet promotion choices. Rees-Mogg, Cleverly and Mercer top the list.

Then come Redwood and Tugendhat to make up the top five. Four of the top ten have been in the Commons for less than three years.

WATCH: May responds to the O’Mara scandal

“All of us in this House should have due care and attention to the way in which we refer to other people.”

WATCH: Morgan – “The majority of MPs… do not what Philip Hammond to be sacked”

The former education secretary claims a “very senior Cabinet minister” has told her how appalled ‘she’ is at the infighting.

And now for 15 items of good news

May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.

Green, Fox, Brady, Morgan. And live-streaming Rees-Mogg. ConHome’s Party Conference programme.

We pick out five items from it which may be of special interest to our readers and others who will attend.

WATCH: Morgan – “I disagree that no deal is better than a bad deal”

“Those who say that there wouldn’t be a problem aren’t listening to exporters and employers.”

Morgan’s new book. Character must once again be taught in schools.

She makes this case in her first publication, but is far too anxious never to cause anyone in the educational establishment any offence.