Straw poll: who will be the next Cabinet Minister to resign over Brexit? (If any of them.)
McVey? Mordaunt? Hammond, because the policy swings the other way? May herself? None of the above?
Universal Credit where Universal Credit is due
If the Budget choice this year is between supporting the new system or raising tax thresholds, the answer is a no brainer.
Ashers Bakery. Politicians should do their job rather than force courts to arbitrate on conflicting rights
If MPs want to take the plaudits for creating such laws, they must also take the responsibility of defining their limits.
May on the fence
Media focus is on the DUP. But we can’t help suspecting that near the heart of policy is a preoccupation with those just-in-time supply chains.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: The language of moral concern smothers politics to death
Theresa May has mastered all the necessary pieties and used them to bludgeon her opponents into submission.
The deselection illusion
Those joining the Conservatives in order to remove their local MP may be in for an unpleasant surprise.
How the Monster of the Berlaymont could become the Monster of No Deal
In the event of no agreement, the Commission will be on its way out, new MEPs almost on their way in…and Selmayr will be in place. Send for the crucifixes and garlic!
Osborne raided Universal Credit budgets, but it’s Hammond who is suffering the hangover
The prospect of millions of families losing out financially makes ministers jittery – as, presumably, those briefing the press intend.
Good luck, Prime Minister, with your plan to split the Left. Just don’t split the Right as well while you’re at it.
Her bid to woo Labour Commons votes for a Brexit deal is part of a wider gambit.
Canadians v Norwegians. How the Cabinet lines up on alternatives to Chequers.
For all the talk of May being pushed towards a Canada-type deal, there is currently no majority around the top table for any Chequers alternative.
Scottish Labour may yet do Britain a service… by sparing it Corbyn
It will help Davidson solidify her grip on the unionist base, and give swing voters minded for a change from the SNP fewer alternatives to consider.
The “end of austerity” must not mean a return to the bad old days of Brownite mismanagement
“Austerity” has been blurred and misused as a term. If everyone takes its end as a promise of whatever they fancy, it will soon get costly and risky.
Cox, future Justice Secretary?
You may have thought his speech over the top. (And he may have thought so too.) But politics needs top-flight people who are really good at what they do.
Citizens from Everywhere
It was May’s best conference speech as Conservative leader. But her One Nation pitch could be too late to save her.
Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: The Prime Minister restores her reputation for unexciting reliability
The only excitement was provided by the Attorney-General, who did a warm-up act in which he looked like Rumpole auditioning to be Henry V.