A new biography of the ruthless, devious, vulgar, brilliant newspaperman who in 1940 became Minister of Aircraft Production.
May’s bogus jollity has become intolerable.
Labour is nowhere much to be seen – but the national picture makes the task of winning this council back from it far harder.
One wonders whether he feels a kind of disappointed love for the Tories – or for them as he thinks they ought to be.
The Prime Minister’s deputy baffled inquiry with consummate professionalism.
Tim Bouverie has written a fascinating account of the slide towards the Second World War.
The former Cabinet minister, who went to prison for perjury, explains why, as a prison chaplain, he is happier than he has ever been.
She is one of the few Cabinet members who does not give the impression of having had her personality flattened by the sacrifices demanded by a ministerial career.
There is more sympathy across the House for the Prime Minister than one would guess from the headlines.
May claimed the Government “will make a success of whatever the situation is in relation to Brexit”.
Jon Davis and John Rentoul’s new book contains valuable material, but cannot efface Iraq, or the former Prime Minister’s self-righteousness.
But there was also a sense, outside the meeting of the 1922 Committee, that the revolution has only been postponed.
The Leader of the Opposition took the chance to do a bit of electioneering by praising Tony Blair’s achievements.
The protesters were at length evicted from the Public Gallery, but no one really seemed to be in charge.