Davidson’s post-Brexit strategy could net her Scotland’s Leave voters

The Scottish Conservative leader has rebounded from the result and is sticking to the plan: stand up to the SNP and squeeze Labour’s unionist vote.

Clinton’s illness, ageing countries, older leaders

Like May’s older-feeling government, America’s presidential candidates fit the demographic facts.

The Fox hunt

The International Trade Secretary has no shortage of ill-wishers who would like to force him out.

Welcome, Change Britain – i.e: Continuity Vote Leave

The group wants a Hard Brexit. Either way, the Government should move Article 50 before next spring is over.

Fox must set trade free, not coerce business

The Trade Secretary’s reported remarks suggest a mercantile attitude at odds with the optimistic, free-trading case for a global Britain.

May should not be bounced into evacuating Parliament

The traditions and idiosyncrasies of our legislature are a precious inheritance, and the Prime Minister must preserve them.

May’s schools speech. She takes on a mass of vested interests. But can she beat them all at once?

Opponents of grammar schools, some supporters of them, a slice of the independent sector, secularists…all have reason not to be best pleased with her plans.

Over nine out of ten Party members think the next election will produce another Conservative majority. Acute or complacent?

Of 943 respondents only 22 think Labour will get into government, even as part of a coalition – rather disproving the idea that Tories are scared of Corbyn.

The treatment of Catholic schools is a “burning injustice” – a wrong that May is now set to right

But her decision and other recent ones also raise the question of whether Ministers really hold sway in their own departments.

Prison reform is a huge opportunity for the Government – Truss must not let it fall off the agenda

The Ministry of Justice is hers now, not Gove’s, so she must make her own plan.

Too much excitement about grammar schools, not enough about technical schools

Kenneth Baker is backing vocational education practically and enthusiastically. But too many other members of the Conservative family just aren’t interested in it.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May shows Corbyn no mercy

The Eurosceptics are in the ascendant, and they feel pretty good about it.

Over three-quarters of Party members support the Hard Brexit option recently backed by Davis

The more they think about it, the more they don’t seem to want a Soft One – at least, on the evidence we have so far.

The Child Abuse inquiry may yet need to be redrawn

Dame Lowell Goddard argues that the sheer scope of its retrospective aspect makes the job impractical.

Hammond falls 20 points and five places in our Cabinet League Table

The drop is best explained by the Chancellor’s well-reported stress on a Brexit settlement as close to single market membership as can be found.