Aitken on the meaning of Easter: “We can all have second chances, little resurrections in our lives.”

The former Cabinet minister, who went to prison for perjury, explains why, as a prison chaplain, he is happier than he has ever been.

Rory Stewart: Corbyn is wrong about almost everything – but we can find common ground with him on Brexit

There are benefits to a cross-party deal. It will give businesses faith that the resulting deal will last through changes of government in the coming decades.

Next Tory Leader. It’s Johnson first, Raab second and Gove third in our first survey since May’s pledge to quit.

Next time round, we will try run-offs between some of the main candidates, which are a bit ovedue.

They’re off! (Well, perhaps.) Twelve questions for leadership candidates.

Such as: do you see Brexit as a help or a hindrance – and what’s your vision for our post-Leave country?

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.

WATCH: Stewart says that Parliament should not be whipped in any indicative votes

The prisons minister decides to “be bold” and says that, if it comes to it, MPs should be free to express their genuine preferences on what’s next for Brexit.

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

Our survey. Next Tory leader – Johnson is top again. Here’s why he’s in pole position with minimum effort.

It is striking how little the former Foreign Secretary is doing to maintain his lead. Then again, he scarcely needs to stir – for the moment.

WATCH: Extension is a worse option that May’s deal, says Stewart

“It would be ridiculous to reject this opportunity for these uncertain and worse futures.”

Shabnam Nasimi: Introducing the long-overdue Conservative Friends of Afghanistan

Our goal is to build links between our Party and the Afghan diaspora, as well as stronger international connections.

Our survey. Next Tory leader. Stasis as Johnson carries on leading amidst little expectation of change.

Although the Prime Minister’s position is fragile, there is no sense of a contest in the offing any time soon.

Steven Edginton: The BBC’s Question Time last week. Abbott was the victim of her own rudeness – not of racism. As I saw at first-hand.

The only explanation I can find is that she mistakenly assumed I was just another Tory public school boy, to whom she did not need to bother giving the time of day.

The first department to need boosting post-March. The Treasury? Business? Transport? No: Northern Ireland.

The challenge to “our precious union” will be as much constitutional as economic – Deal, No Brexit…or No Deal especially.

Our survey. Next Tory leader. Johnson is top again. Javid second, Raab third. Hunt is now fourth.

There are three contenders in double figures, one well ahead of the other two – and a very long tail of names in single figures,

Johnson. Distrusted by Conservative MPs. Clung to by Party members. He extends his lead in our Next Tory Leader survey.

It may be that the former Foreign Secretary has become a kind of comfort blanket in bewilderingly unpredictable times.