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.

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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.

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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.

Raab and Stewart. Our survey’s top Ministerial choices for Cabinet promotion.

Jo Johnson is third. Then Greg Hands and Matt Hancock. But those who lead the results may be no less likely to go up than those who trail them.

Next Tory leader. Our survey. Rees-Mogg leads, Gove is second – and none of the above still beats the lot

Add together the totals of those named who backed Brexit, and one reaches a total of nearly 60 per cent of the vote.

The Conservative MPs most likely next to make the Cabinet are those you may not have heard of

The Mercers, Tugendhats and Cleverlys get a lot of media coverage. However, most promotions come from the ranks of the toiling Ministers of State.

Overseas aid – and Britain’s Brexit bonus. Mordaunt must mull what to do with it.

Patel got a lot done – in particular, improving international rules about emergency spending. Now her successor must work on an aid policy for Global Britain.

Our survey. It’s a thumbs-down from Party members to all the main candidates to succeed May

“None of the above” has the best part of a quarter of the vote. In the surveys since the election, it has successively come first, first, second, second – and now first again.

If Fallon’s account of why he quit is right, his exit is a mistake – and May has set a precedent she may come to regret

If a Minister is guilty of bullying, harrassment or abuse, he should go. But behaviour that falls short of these should not require resignation.

And now for 15 items of good news

May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.