The most powerful player in Parliament on Coronavirus isn’t Brady, or even Johnson – but Starmer

Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.

David Gauke: Johnson’s Covid policy – and why it’s opening up a rift between him and his traditional Tory supporters

If he is to take the necessary steps to get a Brexit deal (and I hope he does), he is going to have to defy those instincts on a second issue, too.

Opposition to new national lockdowns is growing on the Conservative backbenches

Over a third of those who asked a question during a Hancock statement yesterday were to some degree resistant to such shutdowns.

A problem for Johnson. The Agreement he concedes is flawed is one that he signed.

When such Brexiteers as Michael Howard and Norman Lamont are tearing into you over international law, you have just a bit of problem.

Lewis becomes the first Conservative MP to lose the whip during this Parliament. But he may not be the last.

For the Party to take it off him is one thing; for the Government to recast the committee, or try to, would be quite another.

The culture of “special measures” prepares to counter the threat of the virus

And the threat to the NHS seems distant enough to experiment with the relaxation of the two metre rule.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Prime Minister did not stoop and could not conquer

He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.

If you thought staying in lockdown was hard, wait until you see what trying to get out of it is like. But here’s how Johnson could do it.

A successful test, track and quarantine policy would open the door to local paths out of this national shutdown.

Anger

Amidst verbal and actual violence, it is tempting to seek to shut down, say, Farage or Lammy altogether. But politics without anger would be impossible – and undesirable.

The 75 Conservative MPs who opposed the Prime Minister’s deal

Mostly ERG-aligned Leavers – but roughly ten former Remainers, a core of whom now back a second referendum.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Abide with me! fast falls the eventide

An ominous calm reigned and one half expected the Prime Minister to choose a hymn to match.