Johnson’s reshuffle. If he isn’t Thinking Big it should be Kept Small.

Let Sunak and Dowden join Jenrick at the top table. And that should be about it. If the Coronavirus takes off, Ministerial changes will be the least of our worries.

Iain Dale: No gloating, no jingoism, please. Let’s not rub Remainers’ noses in it.

Plus: No nay to Huawei. Or to HS2, too. And: my looming interview with Pompeo on his visit to London.

The calm before the reshuffle? Our first Cabinet League Table of 2020

The month-on-month stability in our rankings highlights against just how much an overall majority has calmed British politics.

Steve Barclay: Tomorrow we will get Brexit done, and start building a better future for every corner of our United Kingdom

The third piece in our mini-series on the road to Brexit comes from the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

HS2. All aboard the Ninky Nonk.

This site would scrap the scheme. But sunk political costs as well as economic ones are likely to keep this Cameron modernisation legacy project chugging on and on.

Triumphator Johnson – our final Cabinet League Table of 2019

The Prime Minister heads a Cabinet whose stock has risen markedly in the wake of this month’s decisive election victory.

Iain Dale: What now in the reshuffle?

Plus: Leaders who will have to go and reflections on my eleventh general election. How things have changed.

Cabinet League Table: Johnson takes the gold – with Javid in second place

Not a good month for the Foreign Secretary, who slips from third place to eighth. But this is probably just due to the rising popularity of others.

WATCH: Barclay confirms the “Government will comply with the law”

Pressed as to whether a letter will be sent, the Brexit Secretary adds that the “legislative requirements” will be met.

WATCH: Barnier – talks on the backstop have been ‘constructive’

He compares the process to climbing a mountain and says it will take ‘vigilance, determination and patience’ to strike a deal.

WATCH: Barclay – Government’s new Brexit proposals are ‘very serious’

The Brexit Secretary insists that the European Union has to accept a replacement to the backstop, which he describes as a “unicorn”.

Javid keeps the gold but Johnson and Rees-Mogg fail to medal in our Cabinet League Table

Brexiteers retain their stranglehold on the top of the chart, but there is a general downward drift. Is it a foretaste of what might happen if we fail to leave the EU next month?

WATCH: Barclay – “We can see a landing zone in terms of a future deal.”

“There’s extensive talks been happening at a technical level and also at a political level.”

Javid, Johnson, and Rees-Mogg hold their podium slots in our Cabinet League Table

The data for this was collected before the Government’s string of Commons defeats – next month’s may look rather different.

Would the Withdrawal Agreement be acceptable without the backstop? 3) Redwood’s response to Barclay

“The Agreement is a very expensive invitation to talks about our possible exit. It does not give us either a clear date for leaving or the terms on which we might eventually be allowed out.”