How many Covid deaths do Ministers believe are acceptable?

The decision on lifting the remainder of lockdown will be based on many factors. But that’s the question at the heart of it.

Will First Past The Post be used for the ’22 Chairman election? If so, does that suit the incumbent – Brady?

A decision is expected when the Executive committee meets this week, and the poll itself is due to take place after June 21.

Brady v Goodwill. The 1922 Chairman election isn’t just about the contenders. At its heart will be Tory MPs’ view of Johnson.

Should he be handcuffed under public restraint, like a suspect watched by Priti Patel? Or freed to run wild through Alpine meadows, like Julie Andrews?

“With one exception, those promoted in our intake have been women, ethnic minority members, or gay”

The troubled story of Conservative MPs, identity politics, fairness, looking like modern Britain – and a headache for Party managers.

Ryan Bourne: Why is Sunak so taken with tax hikes – when the tax burden is forecast to be its heaviest for 70 years?

Conservative messaging implies an implicit belief that there are no major state functions ripe for reform in any fiscal repair.

The Budget should be a big reset moment for post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. It risks being lost amidst a rush to tax rises.

It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.

Conservative MPs on when lockdown should end. “We should start on March 8.”

But as ever, trying to make out a consensus position is like trying to pick out a tune when a drunk pianist is playing a broken piano.

How Johnson thinks. One can’t “let in daylight upon magic”.

The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?

David Gauke: The Covid paradox for Johnson: the nearer to normality we get, the more difficulties he’ll have

The Government should begin to dash unrealistic expectations now, rather than be forced to do so later.

Johnson’s position is stronger than it looks

The sense that he hates the whole business is helping to carry him through it – for all the mistakes that have been made.

Johnson to fly to Brussels. Triumph, sellout, last-ditch gamble – or simply showing willing before talks collapse?

The commonsense presumption must be that he wouldn’t be going at all were a deal not at least possible.

David Gauke: How the Conservatives are morphing from a party of power to a party of protest

We have seen it in the context of Europe; we are seeing it in the context of Covid restrictions. We may more of it in tackling the public finances.

The 53 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government’s tiers plan

The tellers for the Noes were Steve Baker and Robert Syms. 15 Labour MPs, 8 DUP ones and two independents also opposed the motion.

Neil O’Brien: Tomorrow’s Covid vote. We must stick to the plan – and stick together.

Every MP wants to make sure restrictions in their area are as limited as possible. But we’re close to the end now. Let’s not fall near the finish line.

Mak is co-Chair of the new Conservative Party Policy Board

O’Brien has arrived to find the MP for Havant already in place, who though not a former think tank head is no policy slouch.