Davidson introduced the Home Secretary, who does not yet shine as brightly as his talents should enable him to do.
So no more dropouts after Sam Gyimah’s departure earlier this afternoon. The first ballot will be held on Thursday.
The vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.
In a field this crowded and with an electorate so, er, sophisticated, make no assumptions about which names will be forwarded to Party members.
The unrebuttable fact is that the Prime Minister is in breach of her word, and that the collapse of trust in the Party threatens to be terminal.
The Gove reforms are being undermined. Headteachers need to have autonomy.
A dedicated band of Conservative pro-Brexit holdouts stands ready to perish rather than let May’s deal pass.
Halfon and Stevenson join the Europhile ultras in a very near miss for the Government.
Philip Davies, a famously long-standing and committed Brexiteer, is among their number.
No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.
We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.
Halfon is wrong to attribute the rise in school exclusion rates to any disregard for those affected.
The MP for Harlow argues that Labour is “talking the language of the British people”.
There’s little that Conservative MPs can do to stop the Speaker – they don’t have the votes to depose him.