Also: the ERG fire a shot across the Government’s bows following press speculation that ministers could fold on ECJ oversight in Northern Ireland.
Cutting the 45p rate puts fresh pressure on the SNP’s revenue-hostile policies; spending cuts will squeeze their budgets again.
First Minister says she will “do her best to build a constructive working relationship” with Truss if she is elected as Tory leader and PM.
Separatists from different wings of the movement are increasingly united in scepticism towards Nicola Sturgeon’s new strategy.
The First Minister hides behind the Supreme Court to avoid an unofficial referendum, but then plans to use an election as a ‘proxy’.
If the policy was having its desired effect, you’d expect to see a drop in alcohol-related harms. Instead, you see no such thing.
Also: Sturgeon likened to Trump after she bans print journalists from SNP launch event.
The Party Chairman responsible for fund-raising is playing for higher stakes than he may appreciate.
The Government plans to scrap the legal requirement for people to self-isolate if they have the virus; a move that has huge implications.
Also: devolved administrations cling tight to Covid powers; Lewis raises prospect of prosecuting terrorists; SNP retreat from pension lie.
The Unionists from Northern Ireland have more MPs, but nobody seems to be canvassing their views on Johnson’s future.
Any solution to the divide between authority to order lockdowns and responsibility for paying for it must mean more accountability, not less.
Also: Johnson has handed Truss a poisoned chalice by giving her charge of the negotiations on the Protocol.
Also: Government demands changes to Protocol to ease restrictions on Westminster providing support to Ulster businesses.
The fourth of a series of five articles on ConservativeHome this week about the main challenges that await the new Prime Minister.