Welsh secretary resigns in row over aide’s role in rape trial

The Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, has today resigned after claims he knew about his former aide’s alleged role in “sabotaging” a rape trial.

Andy Street: Let business beat politics – and let’s build the nation’s first Gigafactory in the West Midlands

We can avoid the mistakes of the past by locating a new factory for electric car batteries in the regional home of vehicle manufacturing.

Richard Ekins: Why the Supreme Court should overturn last week’s ruling on prorogation

Courts should not interefere in Parliamentary processes, it is not their role, and the Supreme Court has no power to quash the prorogation.

The curse of Cameron

He cannot quite bring himself to say that he regrets the referendum that brought him down.

David Skelton: From Gateshead to ‘Ghosthead’, how our towns have declined

The Conservative Party could become the natural home for the urban working class if it revived these towns, David Skelton argues in his new book.

Vote Leave takes back control: the advisers and officers of Johnson’s new regime

Whilst his ministerial reshuffle has been making the headlines, the Prime Minister’s back-office appointments may be just as important to the fate of his government.

WATCH: Johnson’s first speech as Prime Minister – “We are going to restore trust in our democracy”

“The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters – they are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts.”

Nick Herbert: A ten point plan for the new government

A manifesto from Govern Up on how the Johnson administration can best get to grips with Whitehall – and deliver effectively.

Once May has been dragged out of Downing Street, perhaps it will be seen that she was pursuing a noble Anglican compromise

Condescending men have always underestimated the Prime Minister’s faith, tenacity and sense of duty.

Three cheers for the Commons for the way it is conducting the necessary argument on Europe

Progressive commentators and saloon-bar orators are wrong to condemn MPs for finding the national issue hard to settle.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: How the news of the Prime Minister’s departure reached the waiting press

Where Thatcher’s leadership once hung in the balance, May promised to go.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May’s thin red lines grow thinner, yet she refuses to surrender

And her enemies are divided: can the No Dealers and the People’s Voters combine to defeat her?

May’s Brexit deal helps to show that British politicians are more honourable and efficient than is claimed

There has been a tendency to suppose that because Britain’s power has declined in relative terms they must have become totally useless.

May is miscast as Prime Minister because she takes far too little trouble to find the right words

A new study of the 2017 general election shows May failing to insist on a message and a manifesto which supported each other.

We think we know Churchill, but are constantly surprised by him

Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.