Fifty-three Conservatives opposed the tiering plan last December, the largest Covid-related rebellion to date.
The Chairman of the Covid Recovery Group is concerned that data which might have supported reopening went unpublished.
Most of the action has been over Covid-related divisions. And most of the dissenters are from older intakes.
The most important question today isn’t whether the Government’s plan is right or wrong, but how decisions should be made about it.
Yesterday’s backbench reaction to his Commons statement suggests that most Tory MPs will back his proposals.
The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.
From calling the measures “dystopian”, to criticising Whitty and Vallance’s latest graph, there were some scathing speeches.
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
Plus: Will the 21 rebels get the whip back? And: The Tories need younger members, and so does everyone else.
His time and room are very constricted, but he can at least demonstrate his domestic priorities – police and schools.
From the blog of the University of Liverpool academic: his detailed breakdown of the contest.
I just can’t feel comfortable with these proposals – let alone summon the will to go out and try to convince voters of them.