WATCH: Lee – “Ultimately, I had to put my country before [my] friendship” with the Prime Minister

When asked if resigning was worth it, he says, “I think I moved the government on its position”.

Argar replaces Lee at Justice

The Prime Minister has appointed a reliable loyalist, but does this indicate confidence, or caution?

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: the Chief Whip crouches in front of the Prime Minister

Last-minute concessions appear to have saved the Government from defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill

Iain Dale: The Conservative Party is acting like North Korea over its London Mayoral candidate selection

Plus: Zac Goldsmith tells me that he won’t stand in a by-election if the Heathrow decision fails to go his way.

Sajid Javid leaps to second place and Osborne to third in our next Tory leader survey

Boris’s score falls by six points and May drops to fourth place.

The Andy Warhol leadership election. Coming soon to a Conservative Party near you. (Or maybe not.)

If it happens, there are too many potential candidates for some of them not to be household names for only 15 minutes.

Iain Dale: Ed Balls, for once, was right

Also in Iain’s Friday Diary: The Tonbridge and Malling Open Primary. Gordon Brown, “ex-politician”. Tony Benn’s Diaries. And what I did during the Great Storm