WATCH: Sunak defends Conservative spending plans as “sensible fiscal management”

Marr criticises the Conservatives for “spending money like water” in a way they formerly criticised Labour for doing.

Cabinet League Table: Johnson takes the gold – with Javid in second place

Not a good month for the Foreign Secretary, who slips from third place to eighth. But this is probably just due to the rising popularity of others.

Izzi Seccombe: Our councillors have reason to feel upbeat again after this week in Manchester

There was a really good vibe at Party Conference – especially at lots of outstanding fringe events discussing how to give local communities greater powers.

Javid keeps the gold but Johnson and Rees-Mogg fail to medal in our Cabinet League Table

Brexiteers retain their stranglehold on the top of the chart, but there is a general downward drift. Is it a foretaste of what might happen if we fail to leave the EU next month?

Javid, Johnson, and Rees-Mogg hold their podium slots in our Cabinet League Table

The data for this was collected before the Government’s string of Commons defeats – next month’s may look rather different.

Javid pips Johnson and Rees-Mogg to the top of the podium in our first Cabinet League Table of the new Government

Meanwhile Ruth Davidson, so often one of the highest-scoring politicians, is at the bottom of the chart after her row with Johnson and strong line against No Deal.

Full list of Cabinet appointments

A rolling list of all the senior members of the new Government. As we write, we have the Cabinet list plus those entitled to attend.

WATCH: Sunak insists the Conservatives are not planning for an election

“Turbo-charging those no-deal preparations: that’s the focus from everyone around the Cabinet table.”

Johnson’s shuffle. If one asks for decisiveness – for an end to drift – don’t complain when it’s delivered.

We have the Government that we should have had then, ready to counter the charge that Vote Leave scurried away from Brexit, rather than manning up to deliver it.

Johnson’s reshuffle. Live Blog. Seven of his leadership rivals get jobs. Rees-Mogg in as Leader of the House.

We can now see the new Government taking shape, after a dramatic bout of sackings and new appointments at the top.

Ben Houchen: Which candidate will show leadership on free ports?

From South Carolina to Singapore, and from Dubai to Dalian, growth is supercharged by creating areas inside a country, which fall outside of its customs border.

WATCH: Burka comments were “very liberal”. Sunak defends Johnson from allegations of racism.

He adds that the former Foreign Secretary “does have a particular way of communicating, which does seem to work.”

Who is the real Gove?

A run-off between him and Johnson would risk being seen as a continuation of the “psychodrama” between the two men.

Greater safeguards for Council Tax debt collection promised

In St Albans and North Warwickshire a less draconian approach has proved effective. The Government wants others to follow suit.

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?