Corbyn will win if today’s Commons motion is passed. And Tory leadership candidates know it.

Gove, Stewart and perhaps others too could see their standing and prospects damaged this afternoon.

Henry Newman: Most Conservatives don’t like it – but talks with Corbyn offer a way of breaking the Brexit stalemate

It may be unpalatable, but there’s no point arguing about retaining customs union membership if we can’t get out of the EU in the first place.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May like Cromwell is losing patience with Parliament

The Prime Minister seemed to imply that if MPs will not bend to her will, she is off.

The 16 Tory MPs who broke the whip to back Powell’s cut-off amendment

Halfon and Stevenson join the Europhile ultras in a very near miss for the Government.

Next week’s Brexit votes could yet result in the general election nobody wants

May is so weak that even her command of the payroll vote is slipping. If her Government loses control of European policy, can it really remain in office?

Interview. Sharma – “Every foreign investor I met thought leaving the EU would present significantly more opportunities for bilateral trade.”

The Employment Minister embodies two reasons why the Government is still afloat – its jobs creation record and under-reported Ministerial loyalty.

Letwin’s wildcat executive would reduce ministers to marionettes

The whole plan involves maintaining a public-facing theatre of constitutional normalcy which will only further impede scrutiny and accountability.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May cannot sell her compromise and centrist MPs are preparing to take over

Power seems to be seeping away from the ancien regime.

WATCH: Pincer move on May 2) The Norwegians. Letwin backs the amendment to “avoid us leaving without a deal”

“I personally believe that [if no agreement is reached] a sort of Norwegian arrangement is probably the next best step.”

The 25 Conservatives who voted with Grieve to block a No Deal Brexit – or try to

Some favour a Second Referendum; others, EEA membership. But they have combined to deal the Prime Minister a second bloody blow in a single day.

Letwin’s land banking review identifies the real obstacle to housing growth – the Government.

His recommendations look likely to be accepted. Greater diversity of type and design is to be encouraged – rather than the imposition of uniformity.

State land banking: Network Rail owns 128,000 acres

Only a thousand acres are being released for housing, despite far more being surplus to requirements.

Tony Devenish: The Local Government Association is wrong to demand tax increases

Demands for billions of pounds for extra adult social care spending lack credibility given the continued profligate spending in our town halls.

Daniel Hannan: Higher taxes, spending bungs, pay caps, gender quotas. Is this really the brave new Brexit Britain we want?

What changed? When did we lose the global vocation that infused the Cabinet, Leavers and Remainers alike, two years ago?

No pothead is an island

Any eventual review of drugs policy as a whole must focus on collective consequences rather than individual rights.