Our Cabinet League Table. Wallace top again, Patel up, Johnson down – and Sunak in the red

A pattern is beginning to form below the Defence Secretary, with Truss, Zahawi and Trevelyan coming in variously at second, third and fourth.

Our Cabinet League Table. Sunak plunges to third from bottom.

Meanwhile, Johnson is out of negative ratings for the first time in three months – and in comparative mid-table safety.

Our Cabinet League Table. Truss’s year-long reign is ended as Wallace goes top.

Johnson is still in negative ratings, though less so, and Sunak’s score is at its lowest since he became Chancellor.

Our Cabinet League Table: Johnson falls to his lowest ever negative rating.

And Ministers associated with support for Covid restrictions suffer noticeable falls in their scores.

Truss top, Wallace second, Sunak down, Gove up – and Johnson sixth from bottom in our post-shuffle Cabinet League Table

There is a willingness to give the new Cabinet a chance, but nervousness about the country’s economic prospects and the Party’s strategic direction.

Peter Oborne & Jan-Peter Westad: Conservative MPs with Muslim constituents are starting to speak up about Kashmir

This week marks a bleak anniversary for those from the former princely state. But there’s a new corrective to the Tory pro-India tilt.

Damian Green: Enough of this BBC-bashing. A weaker corporation would mean a weaker culture. And no Tory should want that.

If we are going to make a reality of Global Britain, we need to capitalise on the things about our country that the world likes and admires.

Johnson’s ministerial appointments

We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.

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.