Which MP is backing which candidate. Our named estimates. Johnson 131, Hunt 48, Gove 36, Javid 22

Here’s our best stab at who is voting for whom, and this list will be updated each morning, as the contest continues.

Appointments 6) Foster mans the barricades at Wales, the Cabinet Office, and the Whips Office

He fills the roles vacated by Nigel Adams, and rounds out Theresa May’s latest bid to fill out at least the higher ranks of her Government.

Recap 1) Nineteen posts vacant as May struggles to staff her Government

It is a telling sign that several PPS positions – usually the first step on the ladder for ambitious MPs – have gone unfilled since November.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May’s enraged backbenchers ask how she can cosy up to Corbyn

The Leader of the Opposition took the chance to do a bit of electioneering by praising Tony Blair’s achievements.

Adams resigns: “You have decided a deal cooked up with a Marxist…is better than No Deal”

‘I profoundly disagree with this approach and I have therefore decided that I must reluctantly tender my resignation.’

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?

Operation Gobble. May promotes Leavers within the Government…with an eye on a coming Brexit vote.

Meanwhile, the Government has quietly been appointing more trade emissaries during the last few months.

Over-shuffling the whips’ office has undermined its effectiveness

All but one of the current team has been appointed since May became Prime Minister. What institutional memory are they supposed to draw on?

Steve Davies: Banning touts would not fix the ticket market

Moves to curb or ban resale would replace it with lotteries and black marketeers without even solving the fundamental problems in the market.

How the Conservatives are rebuilding their links with the Republicans – and will work with America’s President-elect

After a long chill, relations between the sister parties are thawing.

Gove’s dagger, the fall of Johnson – and a deep pit of Tory hell

A tale of fatal misunderstandings, tensions and deep differences – and of a potential cycle of grievance which all the leadership candidates must stop before it starts.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron suggest his opponents are a bunch of reckless adventurers

While on the Labour front bench, Watson smiles the smile of a man who knows he will one day have to get rid of Corbyn.

Why is Hammond never available to take difficult Commons statements on Europe?

There were 26 critical questions from Conservative backbenchers on the Government’s EU referendum leaflet yesterday and 5 supportive ones.

Nigel Adams MP: Give small businesses the chance to grow faster

Allowing deferred payment of Corporation Tax and wider access to high speed broadband are among the proposals from a new report.

Results of the first tranche of Select Committee elections

Some backbenchers are unhappy that people who already have a job as a PPS have been allowed to stand.