The Ayatollahs of August

Johnson will want no distractions from Brexit this summer, but history suggests that he may get one – in the Straits of Hormuz.

Luke Tryl: The next Prime Minister must complete the education revolution

The Conservatives have achieved much in school reform, but there is still a lot more to do.

“This will most likely be the last time I will speak at length as Prime Minister…” – May on the state of politics

The Prime Minister deplores the “rancour and tribal bitterness” of modern debate, and criticises politicians “making promises you cannot keep”.

Time is running out for Corbyn as well as May

Here is a Leader of the Opposition who cannot see an open goal without tapping the ball gently in the wrong direction.

WATCH: PMQs – “You have failed the test of leadership…apologise, now”

The Prime Minister confronts Corbyn over “his failure to deal with racism in the Labour Party”.

Johnson’s August 3) Delivering campaign pledges – in so far as he can without a durable majority

His time and room are very constricted, but he can at least demonstrate his domestic priorities – police and schools.

The next Prime Minister should scrap the Office for Tackling Injustices

Conservatism has long been far to hesitant about both reversing bad policy and cutting quangos. May offers her successor an easy place to start.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May denounces Corbyn as a Groucho Marxist

The Speaker must rein in self-indulgent MPs who no longer try to express themselves with the greatest possible concision and force.

Daniel Hannan: For Brexit to work, power must be stripped from the quangocrats – and returned to people we elect

Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.

Henry Newman: Johnson must learn from Lincoln, and appoint a Team of Rivals

He will inherit a precarious Parliamentary position, and time for agreement is growing very short.

Sponsored Post: Richard Lambert – Housing is too important to be used to create a legacy 

Private landlords epitomise traditional Tory values of aspiration, hard work and self-reliance, but this government is about to throw them on the scrapheap.

The civil service isn’t neutral. It shouldn’t be, it can’t be.

It must necessarily have a worldview. The question is whether or not this has caught up with the Brexit vote.

Henry Hill: Johnson and Hunt woo DUP as leadership roadshow hits Belfast

Also: Next Prime Minister faces tricky questions on devolution, same-sex marriage, and abortion in Ulster; and May orders a review of devolution – will it do any good?

WATCH: PMQs – “Labour want to block Brexit, and that would be a betrayal of the many by the few”

Jeremy Corbyn argued that “the best thing would be to go back to the people and let them decide”.

Javid feels the benefit of his leadership bid in the final Cabinet League Table of the May years

Other candidates for the top job gain ground – but not all do so. Meanwhile, the Cabinet’s collective approval rating rises somewhat as May’s departure approaches.