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.

WATCH: Stewart – This deal protects market access and delivers the referendum result

He is one of the few ministers actively pushing the Prime Minister’s case on TV, radio and social media.

Daniel Hannan: I want to support May’s plan. But I can’t. It proposes a way of leaving the EU that’s exactly the wrong way round.

Instead of leaving the Customs Union but retaining chunks of the Single Market – we shall end up staying in the Customs Union but leaving most of the Single Market.

Mordaunt: Let’s champion “the invisible women who keep…our nation going.” Her women’s suffrage centenary speech: full text

“There’s a lot of focus on women in boardrooms…But this is not the place where business is being re-imagined.”

ConHome’s survey. Next Tory leader. Johnson leads Javid by less than a point – after Davis tears a chunk off his support.

Progress in this chart is invariably linked to media coverage – of which the former Brexit Secretary has had lots recently and the former Foreign Secretary less.

Lord Ashcroft: How’s this for a slogan? The Conservatives will make your life a bit better.

And: Churchill-mania, Moggmania, and the passion of Rory Stewart. Plus: too many lobbyists.

Our Next Tory Leader survey. Javid is up and Johnson down slightly – but the latter retains a double-figure lead.

No other entrant has more than ten per cent of the vote, though Hunt is almost there.

Davidson says “I will not be a candidate.” Where does the Tory left look for a leadership contender?

One can conjure up the names of former Ministers, present Ministers and backbenchers. But only one of them presently sits at the Cabinet table.