Our Cabinet League Table. Wallace top again, Patel up, Johnson down – and Sunak in the red

A pattern is beginning to form below the Defence Secretary, with Truss, Zahawi and Trevelyan coming in variously at second, third and fourth.

Mini-reshuffle: Pincher announced as Deputy Chief Whip after a long delay

Andrew is Housing Minister, Cleverly Europe Minister and Ellis and Wheeler move to the Cabinet Office.

Our Cabinet League Table: Johnson falls to his lowest ever negative rating.

And Ministers associated with support for Covid restrictions suffer noticeable falls in their scores.

The odds against further Omicron restrictions lengthen

Unless studies and data take a turn for the worse, a Cabinet majority for more than Plan B isn’t there.

Et tu, Frosty?

The resignation of his former SpAd and Brexit negotiator will come as a personal blow to the Prime Minister.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: A chastened and humiliated Johnson has to eat humble pie

The PM could not use his usual weapon of raillery against his opponents, but was forced to show he takes breaches of the Covid rules as seriously as they do.

Emily Carver: The war on drugs has failed. Will this government have the guts to change tack?

Having been so focused on Covid health outcomes, we have lost sight of our nation’s terrible rate of drug-related deaths.

Ben Obese-Jecty: As an ethnic minority Conservative, my experiences have been positive. But Singh’s report shows room for growth.

As a party we should welcome measures that can help address existing shortcomings.

Interview. Therese Coffey – “An element of a kinder politics is not calling other people bigots because you don’t agree with them.”

Here’s her take on Universal Credit, science, Liverpool, same-sex marriage – and her department. “Big thanks to the Jabs Army, we are the Jobs Army.”

How to advise Lord North, or Heath, or Thatcher, or Johnson

A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.

Time for a Coffey break

The recent bias in Downing Street against putting the Work and Pensions Secretary up for press conferences and big media shows is inexplicable.

WATCH: ‘I am not worried about Javid taking my job,’ insists Raab

“You have to look at who’s doing the talking up,” says the Foreign Secretary, when asked about rumours regarding a possible Cabinet reshuffle.

WATCH: I wasn’t the lockdown leak culprit, says Gove

He doesn’t know who leaked an announcement of a second national lockdown, he told Andrew Marr.

Profile: Liz Truss, Perky promoter of free trade with Japan – and, like Johnson, a disruptor

With her odd mixture of indiscretion and obedience, her contempt for liberal groupthink and love of freedom, she in many ways a useful ally.

Graham Brady: The Government must account properly for the full cost of lockdowns, restrictions – and Covid-19 itself

Publishing this information may lead to a more realistic understanding from the public of the real costs of the current strategy.