Radical: Self-ID for transgendered people has been stopped for now. But the struggle for truth and sense continues.

Equivalent reform is being pursued in Scotland; in combination with its hate speech bill, this would be dangerously authoritarian.

Javid is Chancellor. Tugendhat, Foreign Secretary. May, Home Secretary. Introducing the Alternative Cabinet.

The real one is widely and correctly dismissed as weak.  So we’ve had a go at assembling a stronger team.  Here is the result.

Rob Sutton: Introducing the top 50 Conservative MPs on Twitter

Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.

Johnson, Starmer – and their strategies in firing people

After the Labour leader sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey, others expect Johnson to be tougher on his adviser and Minister.

Javid delivers the Budget he never got a chance to – via the Centre for Policy Studies. He wants to go for growth.

It’s a good thing for former senior Ministers to keep thinking, going and contributing, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see a comeback to government.

Our survey. Is the Cabinet, which must wrestle with the Coronavirus, fit for purpose?

Four in five of our party member respondents say yes. Hunt is top choice to come in from outside – but there’s no strong support for any non-member.

Iain Dale: My knickers are for the many not the few

Plus: Will Javid come back? Will Boris Island fly? Hazzer, formerly the Duke of Sussex. And: an ice bath in a Scandi forest.

Reshuffle 1) The lesson of this PJ Masks shakeup. For Johnson and Cummings, it is truly Do or Die.

We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.

Iain Dale: My reshuffle predictions. The Prime Minister believes he has delivered for his supporters – and now owes them nothing.

Plus: A sofa, two dogs, no cup of tea – and my Brexit evening. And: the pre-eminence of Policy Exchange.

Our survey. Gove is Minister of the Year.

He is one of the few elements of continuity in what has been a turbulent year at the Government’s top table.

“Get out of London.” Now watch Johnson and Cummings turn the country upside down. Or try to.

Don’t expect Downing Street to bother too much about what MPs or the media think as it prepares to shake up government and Whitehall.

Iain Dale: What now in the reshuffle?

Plus: Leaders who will have to go and reflections on my eleventh general election. How things have changed.

Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Could Tory MPs be whipped to vote that they don’t have confidence…in their own Government?

And: Gigabit broadband will soon be “sprouting like vermicelli”, says Johnson. Plus: Mordaunt’s warnings and Hoey’s heroine’s welcome.

Daniel Hannan: Cameron maligns Brexiteers because he misunderstands them

The idea that self-government might matter to Johnson or Gove more than, say, party loyalty leaves him genuinely nonplussed.

Judy Terry: Greater civility in local politics would help attract more women councillors

Some of the abuse is nothing short of bullying. This is a threat to freedom of speech. We should value debating different views.