
Our survey. Is the Cabinet, which must wrestle with the Coronavirus, fit for purpose?
Four in five of our party member respondents say yes. Hunt is top choice to come in from outside – but there’s no strong support for any non-member.
Four in five of our party member respondents say yes. Hunt is top choice to come in from outside – but there’s no strong support for any non-member.
Let Sunak and Dowden join Jenrick at the top table. And that should be about it. If the Coronavirus takes off, Ministerial changes will be the least of our worries.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury wins decisively with over half the vote. Johnny Mercer was the runner up, with more than a quarter.
Don’t expect Downing Street to bother too much about what MPs or the media think as it prepares to shake up government and Whitehall.
We can now see the new Government taking shape, after a dramatic bout of sackings and new appointments at the top.
Jokes continue to be told, but it would be wrong to suggest the contest has been fought in a spirit of unwearying amity.
He could survive tomorrow’s ballot. If he doesn’t, his supporters will have to ask themselves what sort of final they want.
The Conservative Women in Parliament Group’s letter to all the candidates in the leadership election.
So no more dropouts after Sam Gyimah’s departure earlier this afternoon. The first ballot will be held on Thursday.
How the far left uses a feedback loop to shut down people in the short term – and ideas in the long.
Her comments on gender reassignment treatments are mild and responsibly-phrased. But some are starting up the outrage bus.
A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.
The Home Office minister explains some of the factors behind the rise in violent crime and challenges the idea that cuts to police numbers are to blame.
It is hard to appoint more women to Cabinet when there are few senior women to promote. We count only four at Minister of State level.
May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.