Iain Dale: Cummings. Why bother giving seven hours of testimony – but not then provide supporting evidence?

Plus: I am seriously considering stepping back from Twitter. And: the play you must see.

Polling snapshot. Coming out of lockdown, Starmer’s election and disillusion with the Government are returning us to politics as normal.

There is no evidence from the poll of polls that the Dominic Cummings affair speeded up what has been a steady Tory decline since mid-April.

Iain Dale: Boulton is wrong. I criticise as well as praise the Government – without fear or favour. And here’s evidence.

Plus: Shapps’ presentational success and Hancock’s stuck tests. And: whatever Johnson says on Sunday, he’ll be damned either way.

Meanwhile, the Conservative poll rating is at under a quarter of the vote

The evidence suggests that what would most improve this terminal score is delivering Brexit – not a new leader.

Alan Mak: Conservatism 4.0 – Adapting our Party for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is our greatest challenge

The battlegrounds of the next election, as well as the wider economy, are being shaped by new technology.

The Independent Group. A problem for the Conservatives but a danger for Labour.

Tory difficulties are bound up with Brexit. Labour’s stretch wider, and are part of wider ones for social democratic and democratic socialist parties.

Iain Dale: Self-indulgent Remain Ministers, self-deluded ERG MPs

Plus: My exclusive insight into that May Corbyn summit. Why does the BBC indulge Brok? And: Cooper trooper – not so super.

Alex King: The Remainers’ notion that Brexit is founded on dreams of empire is a tired fantasy

Ironically, a major reason the UK joined the EEC – a club of former colonial powers – was the hope of preserving imperial clout.

Iain Dale: Don’t believe claims of fewer EU nationals and doctors since the Brexit vote

Plus: We need a Housing Minister who will do for new homes what Michael Heseltine did with development corporations in the 1980s.