From Reggie to Dessie: That Ashcroft extravaganza. As Davis edged further from Mrs May, Boris edged closer to Miss World…

Plus: Soames bottle-feeds the Crouch childlet. Gove’s lesé majeste. And: It’s Ken Clarke’s memoirs – Fifty Shades of Blue.

Gove is ConHome readers’ Minister of the Year

He takes 58 per cent of the vote.

Iain Dale: Prat. Gaffe. Scoop. And Treacherous Bastard. My End of Year Awards.

Plus: Thank you for the three bottles of vintage wine…but you forgot to enclose a note with your name. Christmas, eh?

In defence of Tracey Crouch

Politicians should not be afraid to offer practical advice to their constituents.

Iain Dale: Innocent until proven guilty still applies – to Ted Heath and anyone else

Plus: Tracey Crouch slam dunks John Humphrys. Another failure for the Bow Group’s blunderkind. And: If Corbyn doesn’t win, what job will he get?

Iain Dale: Massow’s campaign video – butt-cock clenchingly awful

Yes, it really is spelt like that. Plus: I bet four candidates go through to the London Conservative Mayoral primary, and that Yvette Cooper is Labour’s next leader.

Profile: Tracey Crouch, the Sports Minister who leads Conservative opposition to hunting

Could it be that she has done Cameron a favour by helping to avert a relaxation of the hunting ban?

This hunting row is all sound and fury

The ban is an ineffective fudge, and the proposed changes small. The stakes in the coming Parliamentary vote are probably much lower than either side likes to let on.

From Reggie to Dessie: It took four Drag Queens to get Soames aboard the Gay Pride Float

Proceedings were interrupted by a large rodent, which was eventually cornered by young Hancock, who strangled it and dropped it out of the window.

Iain Dale: It’s scandalous that dozens of people at Transport for London earn over £100,000 a year

Plus: Thither goes Harry Cole – to the Sun. Here comes Tim Montgomerie – on a diet. And: Tracey Crouch, sports mastermind.

Iain Dale: Sending Shapps to DfID is like sending Arsene Wenger to Colchester United

Plus: Well done, Tracey Crouch. Please leave Britain, Paul O’Grady. The delightful Matt Hancock. And lefty lies about champagne.

From Reggie to Dessie: My Pale, Male and Stale plan to interview prospective leadership candidates

Of course our efforts at Rochester weren’t helped by the glitches in the new CCHQ computer “Darth Vader”.

Iain Dale: The reshuffle. Who should go up – and who’s at risk.

Plus: Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the World Cup. Home of the – Aaarrrggghhh!

Who’s to blame? Cameron, the Whips, or both?

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