How to measure the size of the Conservative rebellion this evening
Courtesy of Philip Cowley, here are some markers for this evening’s votes, when they come.
Almost good enough isn’t good enough
Strangely but truly, the best way of helping the Prime Minister is to send her back to Brussels to win concessions on the backstop.
A fact amidst the rumours. The Prime Minister is failing to persuade most rebel Conservative MPs to switch and support her deal.
We count four so far from our list of 109 who have changed their minds – and all of them were only “probables”.
Grayling, Patten, the Far Right, the IRA, Brexit, the Speaker – and the difference between a threat and a warning
If two men are in a car, and the passenger says to the driver: “Look out! You’re going to crash,” he is shouting out the second, not the first.
As the ‘meaningful vote’ approaches, apply buckets of salt to all Government news
Scepticism is always a healthy attitude – but the spin being pumped out this weekend merits even more than normal.
The idea that this Government has made a habit of ‘constitutional outrages’ is false
David Allen Green has painted an inaccurate and flattering picture of the circumstances in which John Bercow shattered precedent this week.
“No-one voted for Brexit to become poorer.” Really? We vote to deny ourselves money all the time.
Security, cohesion, integration, solidarity: all are intangible. But we pay – literally – to gain them. Why single out self-government?
This rotting Cabinet
The conventional wisdom is: weak Prime Minister, strong Cabinet. But what we see is: weak Prime Minister, weak Cabinet.
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Tory MPs fear Bercow is betraying Brexit
The anger expressed on the Conservative benches reflected the anger felt in many a humble home.
Bercow had already harmed the role of Speaker. But his latest intervention threatens to do irreparable damage.
MPs cheering on some temporary political advantage may come to rue the day the Commons gave up the concept of an impartial, respected champion.
Our guide to how the Government can deliver its Brexit deal in Parliament. Or No Deal. And whether MPs can block the latter.
Short of backing Labour in a no-confidence vote, rebels can only make such a departure more chaotic and hope the Prime Minister buckles.
Extending Article 50? A clumsy tactic, and an even worse plan.
Brexiteer MPs believe such hints are being leaked to try to frighten them. But some in Government have indeed toyed with the idea.
Brexit: The Uncivil War. Graham gives us Cummings Agonistes – and a Tory work of art.
The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.
Universal Credit. Noble aim, thorny problems – and Rudd’s decision. If the scheme is to work properly, it must be paid for.
If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.
Testing our survey against the latest polling of Party members. New evidence on Next Tory Leader.
Johnson has topped an ESRC poll, as he did our last survey. Its findings are even better for Brexiteers than ours were.