WATCH: Theresa May is “hard as nails”, says former Home Office Minister Norman Baker

In an interview to gladden the Home Secretary’s heart, he says she tried to run her department as a Conservative ministry not a Coalition one.

Battlegrounds Revisited 10) The South East

The last of our profiles looks at a region that witnessed another Liberal Democrat extinction event and the undoing of the People’s Army.

Vince Cable is our readers’ Yellow B**tard of the Year

The Business Secretary consolidates his lead in the most-disliked stakes.

Iain Dale: The best and worst Conservative leaders. Who do you nominate?

Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.

Iain Dale: My Queen’s Speech. The Liberal Democrats (Abolition of) Bill. The 40p tax threshold up. The Joanna Lumley (Listed status) Bill…

And: Plastic bags. Britain’s arch-nemesis. Norman Tebbit, my hero. Norman Baker, not my hero. Plus: Lutfur Rahman isn’t brave enough to come on my programme.