Chicken May

Is she chickening out on Brexit? Or playing chicken with Commons and Party over her deal? Or merely a headless chicken herself – bent on daily survival?

WATCH: Barclay – “The vote is going ahead, and that’s because it’s a good deal”

The Brexit Secretary claims that the Withdrawal Agreement balances controlling money and immigration with keeping trade flowing.

WATCH: McVey would give a leadership bid “serious consideration” if asked to stand

“At the moment I am looking for someone who can unite the party behind a Brexit deal. A person who believes in Brexit.”

ConHome’s Cabinet League Table. Everyone’s rating is down – and half of the top table is now in negative territory. Worst ever results.

Not for the faint-hearted. Contains intense violence, blood and gore, strong language and Philip Hammond.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes

Never have the Prime Minister’s colleagues looked more despondent, but her backbenchers refrained from trying to defenestrate her.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Dodds looks as if he wants to push the delete button on May

The Prime Minister clearly thinks she can talk her own backbenchers into supporting her deal, but could find no way of conciliating the DUP.

Hammond, Penrose, and Kwarteng join the Government as May circles the wagons

The Prime Minister has eschewed the chance to bind waverers with patronage in favour of promoting able loyalists who won’t make trouble.

Iain Dale: Did the Chief Whip knife Jones – and other pro-Leave Ministers – in this reshuffle?

Plus: Let’s have no sympathy for Farron. He didn’t give straight answers to straight questions, and is thus the cause of his own downfall.

WATCH: May for Women to Win: “My father always encouraged me to do the best I can – and aim high”

A focus on fathers: with Andrew Feldman, Oliver Heald, Will Quince, Chris Grayling, Stephen Barclay, Stephen Hammond and Nigel Huddleston.

Laura Sandys MP: Why the 2020 Group wants to see Britain sweat its assets

Instead of focusing just on old-fashioned GDP, we must drive up productivity and profitability.

70 Tory MPs vote to repeal the Human Rights Act

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Yesterday in Parliament, Richard Bacon, a Conservative backbencher, tried to introduce a Bill which would… Read more »

Stop Dangerous Drivers, urges Steve Barclay MP in new web campaign

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The video above can also be watched on StopDangerousDrivers.com, a website that was recently… Read more »

The 24 Conservative MPs who are still on the backbenches and have never rebelled

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. After last week's reshuffle of the Secretaries and Ministers of State, and this week's… Read more »

The Carlton Club Dinner has raised about £2m under Steve Barclay MP’s chairmanship

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The Prime Minister was on confident form at last night's Carlton Club Dinner, speaking… Read more »

Steve Barclay uses his maiden speech to call for rural areas like his to get their fair share of the nation’s resources

Steve Barclay fills the shoes of Malcolm Moss in North East Cambridgeshire and began his maiden speech during yesterday’s debate… Read more »