With the terror threat level at critical, Johnson launches a leadership bid – or so his critics say

His Telegraph article message: “Britain can flourish on WTO”. And how it will inevitably be read: “With May out of Number 10 – and me in”. Watch for calls for his dismissal.

The Government would be right to ‘take back control’ of our aid budget

Cameron’s insistence on binding Britain to the OECD has undermined not just May’s vision for overseas development, but his own.

If Parliament is diminished it is not for lack of Opposition Day theatre

Shorter sitting hours, time-limited speeches, and procedural changes have all made the Commons less effective. If Bercow wants to fix it he should start there.

Race to the bottom

May’s audit of ethnic disparities could blight her planned relaunch – and, more importantly, produce policy that sets back social justice rather than takes it forward.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May looks far less vulnerable than she did last week

Her Brexit majority leaves the Prime Minister free to bludgeon away to her heart’s content.

Public sector payback time

Its awards consume roughly a quarter of public spending. It is hard to see where the tax hikes or spending scaleback to fund them will come from if the Chancellor sticks to his guns.

The Commons has acted as the legislature of a sovereign country

Although Brexit has not yet taken place, it has already had an admirably invigorating effect on Parliament.

Why did the general election go wrong for May?

“The low point of the Conservative campaign has followed the manifesto launch,” we wrote. “The social care policy tanked, and Tory poll ratings fell with it.”

Blair flaps at the stable door. But the horse runs free.

It was the former Prime Minister himself who presided over the drawing up of the Article 50 process from which there is no known means of resiling.

Students and money. Let’s help them with their current costs – not fixate on their future ones

A review of student finance, to report before Brexit, would be a better way of proceeding than panic announcements at next month’s Party Conference.

The battle of the bill committees is not an attack on the constitution

The Government is seeking recognition of its working majority in the Commons – and can only prevail if that majority exists.

Conservative revolts on Europe are coming now not from Leavers – but from former Remainers

What counts most is opposition to a Bill or to parts of it. And most Tory criticisms of the EU Withdrawal Bill aren’t coming from the Brexiteers.

Row over university pay arises because we expect them to be two things in one

Without America’s clear split between elite institutions and public service providers, vice-chancellors are caught between very different sets of expectations.

May returns to a positive score in our Cabinet League Table

Members seem to agree that the Prime Minister has staged a mild recovery over the summer.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May tries to put her opponents to sleep

Yet the Prime Minister’s vulnerability could conceivably strengthen her, by forcing her to listen.