Our survey. Next Tory leader – Johnson is top again. Here’s why he’s in pole position with minimum effort.
It is striking how little the former Foreign Secretary is doing to maintain his lead. Then again, he scarcely needs to stir – for the moment.
Our survey. Over six out of ten Party members oppose a No Deal vote before March 29
Most respondents clearly believe it is wrong for the Government to offer MPs a means of effectively taking it off the table before the end of this month.
Our survey. Seven in ten respondents are opposed to a Commons vote on Brexit extension
The most natural reading of this finding is that an emphatic majority of Party members want to leave the EU on time.
How Trudeau destroyed his political brand
Even if he toughs out calls for his resignation, the current scandal is a bitter blow to one of the few stand-out champions of the liberal centre-left.
Gauke’s argument on sentencing reform is calm, reasoned and vulnerable to events outside his control
The Justice Secretary makes a good case that short prison sentences make reoffending worse. But he must persuade a sceptical public.
The Independent Group. A problem for the Conservatives but a danger for Labour.
Tory difficulties are bound up with Brexit. Labour’s stretch wider, and are part of wider ones for social democratic and democratic socialist parties.
The motion backing Leave that every Conservative Association should pass during this AGM season
As Number Ten mulls extending Article 50, local activists should follow the lead of the National Convention.
Eustice’s deep consistency. The ConservativeHome article that presaged his resignation.
The logic of his position was that the UK was leaving by March 29th. It hasn’t changed. The Government’s has. So he’s gone.
May walks a red tape tightrope on workers’ rights and regulations
In trying to find a way across, and to secure the votes she needs from Labour MPs, the Prime Minister risks unintended consequences.
Nuclear powers, spiralling tension – and Kashmir’s fallout in urban Britain
Brokenshire must keep an eye on the potential knock-on from the latest flare-up over terror, reprisals, a captured pilot and the disputed territory.
“The key is the DUP.” A letter to the Prime Minister from her Chief of Staff.
How a note to May this morning about a deal, the meaningful vote, extension and future Brexit policy options might read. Plus a possible general election…
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May threatens to drive everyone over a cliff, then offers a concession
The Prime Minister lives to fight another day, and with a bit of help from Labour she could still get her deal through.
If May backs a Brexit extension once, why wouldn’t she do so again? And U-turn on a second referendum too?
The words of Gordon Brown to Tony Blair echo in our ears. “There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe”.
Even a Conservative election victory wouldn’t sort out this mess
There’s no guarantee that it would return a Commons supportive of any deal that May might put before it.
Ultimately, Begum is a distraction. The main issue is not terrorists’ brides, but terrorists themselves. Where are they?
The Home Secretary is afloat on a sargasso sea of returning jihadis, human rights laws, bewildering intelligence, gaps in the law – and a shrieking media.