Raab, Davis’s former Chief of Staff, becomes the new Brexit Secretary

No clearer signal could be sent that the Haltemprice and Howden MP is out on his own. But the promotion will lose Raab some friends even as it delivers a new gain in status.

Our Survey. Next Tory Leader. Javid tops the poll for the first time.

Gove is second, “Other” third. It is an astonishing turnaround for a man who three months ago was languishing on a mere two per cent.

Iain Dale: It was Phillip Lee, but could have been me

Plus: Damian Collins and his useless Select Committee shot themselves in the foot this week. Let grandstanding committee chairmen be warned.

Rory Geoghegan: Short-term prison sentences do nothing for prolific offenders. We must get serious about tackling the causes of crime.

Our latest Centre for Social Justice report – Desperate for a Fix – focuses on prolific drug-addicted people and proposes a new Second Chance Programme.

Our Survey. Next Tory leader. Rees-Mogg leads Gove by less than ten votes in over a thousand. Javid is third.

If, that is, you don’t count “Other”, which comes ahead of the Home Secretary but behind the two front-runners.

WATCH: “Reoffending rates are far too high for short sentences…they aren’t long enough to turn lives around” – Stewart on prisons

The Prisons Minister says reducing the numbers incarcerated for under a year “would be good for public safety, good for the individuals and good for the prison system”.

Our Next Tory Leader survey. Rees-Mogg leads Gove by two votes in over a thousand

The survey went out as Javid replaced Rudd, and he has bounced up to become the only other person polled who gets into double figures.

Rees-Mogg tops our Next Tory Leader survey for the third month running

The changes in the ratings of the top three are almost unchanged, another tribute to the consistency of the poll.

Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists

Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.

No change in our Next Tory Leader survey result. Rees-Mogg is top – then Gove, then Johnson.

Meanwhile, 51 per cent of respondents believe that Theresa May should resign as Party leader before the next election.

Iain Dale: Don’t knock Mancock, er, Hancock

The Conservatives ought to learn from him. Plus: Vote, vote, vote for Widdecombe. Fire and Fury is damp and limp. My teeth, oh, my teeth. And: My quest to enter Phillip Lee’s brain.

Our survey – Next Tory leader. Three Brexiteers lead, as last month: Rees-Mogg, Gove and Johnson.

Respondents are much where they were a few weeks ago, for all the turmoil that has taken place since the reshuffle.

Reshuffle Day. And Raab, Stewart, Rees-Mogg and Cleverly are our panel’s top choices for Cabinet promotion.

Cabinet Ministers were told yesterday that the shuffle will be “significant”, but that word covers a multitude of possibilities.

Our survey. Next Tory leader. As last month, Rees-Mogg leads and Gove is second.

Our take is that our panel is waiting to see what happens next, and suspending judgement as the political cycle and Brexit negotiations continue.

Needed early in the New Year. A reshuffle to help Britain better prepare for leaving the EU.

Futhermore, the Government needs to sharpen up its sense of mission. And there is a heap of talent on the Tory backbenches.