Joe Egerton: Why we need a transition period of up to seven years

EURATOM, WTO quotas, open skies agreements, banks’ ability to lend – all these involve change which it may not be possible to effect by April 2019.

Sunder Katwala: Will the Conservatives have more ethnic minority MPs than Labour after this election?

The Tories are making gradual rather than spectacular progress on ethnic diversity – as the party’s class of 2017 looks set to prove.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Bercow allows MPs almost an hour for saying goodbye

Corbyn could not shake May, but Robertson for a moment disconcerted her.

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary. The pluses, minuses and paradox of an interim deal.

The Chancellor suggested that thoughtful politicians incline to one. But the more thoughtful one is about it, the more problematic it looks.

Iain Dale: He was five foot four, and I’m six foot two, but I’m wanted none the less to play Mussolini

Plus: Salmond’s revisionist view of Thatcher. My weekly Brexit briefing begins. And: the glory of Tim Shipman’s “All Out War”.

Iain Dale: The UKIP leadership election. Is there a secret Nuttall-Evans pact?

Plus: Osborne – terrible at predictions but brilliant at quizzes. The Brexiteers sweep the Select Committee board. And: all the very best to Nick Boles.

Iain Dale: This week’s media assault on Leadsom is astonishing – and she has done well to survive it

Plus: the downfall of Boles. This Eagle won’t fly. What to do with Gove? Cameron should become Foreign Secretary. And: Out there in the country, Blair is still popular.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Chilcot instils a sombre and respectful tone

Corbyn refrained from mentioning Blair, but instead praised Cook for putting the case against the Iraq War.

Howard Flight: The City can flourish after Brexit – and the EEA option is the safest means of ensuring this happens

Continental Europe needs the financial services of London just as much, if not more, than London needs its financial exports to Continental Europe.

Howard Flight: The economic case for Brexit

We would be better off out, in terms of jobs, wages and growth – and the cost of leaving would be smaller than its benefits.

Queen’s Speech rebels highlight the perils of small majorities

And Labour is torn between between exploiting those perils and being seen to cooperate with the Government on the EU.

Brexiteers should stop hoping they will be saved by Boris

The Mayor of London will not admit it, but he is likely to vote to remain in the European Union.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Cameron dominates his backbenchers

As the Prime Minister took questions on his EU deal, only Jacob Rees-Mogg managed to disturb his equanimity.

Interview: “The power of such laws is that they change attitudes.” Hague on the 20th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.

Opposed by Clarke and Heseltine, supported by Lilley and Portillo and backed by John Major as Prime Minister, it was the former Tory leader’s “proudest achievement”.

Geoffrey Howe is dead. The man who helped to bring Thatcher down, but who helped to make Thatcherism possible

The fervent believer in the European project was also an early advocate of market economics. We send our commiserations to his widow and family.