Peel increased the burden of taxation on the rich – perhaps Sunak and Johnson will too

Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Chancellor brings a mysterious poetry to his numbers

He sought to unite the nation in a moral mission, “a common endeavour”, and to leave Labour with nothing to say.

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.

Profile: Singapore, the city state mistakenly held out by Eurosceptics as an example for Britain to follow

Conservatives ought to know without being told that one cannot just take a glance round the world, see which culture one likes the look of, and graft it onto one’s own.

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.

Profile: The Prime Minister, as revealed in the twelve qualities shared by successful holders of that office

The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.

Peter Marshall: We must all now focus on finding a way to build a positive future relationship

We need to rekindle l’esprit communautaire, on both sides of the channel. In Walpole’s famous phrase, “this dance can no longer go”.