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It’s a modern form of One Nation Conservatism. Harold Macmillan would have liked it.

From Reggie to Dessie: Crocodile skin and velvet at the Black and White Ball. And that was just the men.

Plus: Theresa May faces the Pale, Male and Stale. Leslie on special ops. Dog bites Redwood. And: Hugo Swire, former owner of Hong Kong.

Osborne returns to the top of our Cabinet league table

The Chancellor displaces IDS, who had occupied the top-spot for the previous three months.

Boris back on top in our Party members future leadership survey

Liam Fox is up to fourth.

Andrew Bower: The encryption ban makes us look like the Thick Party

Not only would the proposal be hugely damaging to our economy and reputation, technical realities make it impossible to implement.

Cameron’s House needs a Welcome Mat

The Conservative campaign needs some warmth, uplift and outreach. That means focus on what helped Thatcher and Macmillan to win elections – housing.

On Islamist extremism, Javid’s moderation trumps Farage’s stridency

On this and much else, the son of a bus driver from Pakistan is more likely to deliver than the former stockbroker from Sevenoaks.

Foreign students – the battleground of migration vs growth becomes the battleground of the leadership hopefuls

Already a vexed debate, the addition of May, Osborne and Boris to the mix won’t calm it down one bit.

LabServative! That Blue-Red Coalition. Cabinet list in full.

Includes five jobshare posts, and returns to the front bench for Ken Clarke, Liam Fox, Tom Watson…and Emily Thornberry.

Andrew Lilico: Osborne will become Prime Minister (and nine other predictions for 2015)

Including: trouble in Greece, a minority Conservative government and support for leaving Europe.

The Scottish referendum is our political event and scrap of the year

The close-run fight for the future of our country comfortably wins both polls by clear majorities, trumping defections to UKIP and showdowns with Europe.

Theresa May’s address to the Police Federation is our readers’ Speech of the Year

The Home Secretary’s broadside made her the clear winner among party members.

Which Cabinet Ministers now want Britain to leave the EU?

We have named four – IDS, Grayling, Gove and Hammond. The Times cites Letwin. Javid has said that he’s not afraid of Britain leaving.

George Osborne is our readers’ Conservative Minister of the Year

The Home Secretary is second, and Gove wins plaudits among the write-ins.

In the wake over the row over her SpAds, Theresa May once again tops our future leader poll

Sajid Javid is now third.