Badenoch has cut through from close second to decisive first. Mordaunt has slipped to third, Truss is up to second, Sunak is hard on their heels.

He's recently been in the news for laying into Gary Neville, which will have done his cause no harm at all.

To waste time now on internal factionalisation would be indefensible to so many party members who worked so hard to secure our majority.

The Home Secretary declares that "thousands of children have had their childhoods robbed and devastated" and that perpetrators must be brought to justice.

"If the answer is a caretaker, whether Mr Lidington or anybody else, what the hell was the question?"

All that passing May's deal would do is lose the DUP, split the Party, boost Farage, and usher in an election. And the deal is bad in any event.

Concern over too-low interest rates and growing fear of an anti-growth Labour government are much more likely culprits.

We must not put public money into the pockets of a company accused of abetting the most egregious human rights abuses in the modern world.

If in the future, the UK has neither its own trade policy nor any say over the EU’s, we will have literally zero leverage on anything to do with trade.

My own experience when I was a minister showed two institutions which really didn’t care very much what we thought: the Chinese government, and Google.

Badenoch was also top, Truss also second and Tugendhat also fifth in the main survey from which these results are drawn. Sunak was fourth in the main survey and third in these run-offs. He thus swaps...

We must now change the status of these passports to allow Hong Kong BNOs a quicker path to full UK citizenship.

He, Raab and Gove are in the same order as last month - first, second and third. No other candidate reaches double figures.

This is not about infiltration. Rather, it's about defending democracy and the Leave vote, in a traditional, decent, moderate, thoughtful and patriotic way.

In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.

The Spartans played a major role in sinking May's Brexit deal and floating Johnson's. Baker has thus been a force to be reckoned with.

And roughly a third believe that they should back it. That's a platform for the Prime Minister to build on - but she has little time left in which to change hearts and minds.

That's the only sensible way of reading a firming-up of support for the option among our Members' Panel.

She may continue in office and even win the next election. But Trussonomics, and the prospectus on which she contested the leadership election, is over.

This finding is extraordinary, but there are at least four reasons why it could be on the money - and is a reliable guide to the trend.

And there is an even stronger motive: the fear that the magic of the Prime Minister could deliver another Tory general election victory too.

The abuse became so bad that I felt the need to stop giving media interviews, writing articles and to remove myself from the public arena.

Standing by while the law is broken does not make officers, peaceful protesters, members of the public (or statues) any safer.

The Prime Minister will be rejected by the aspirational working class that voted for him in large numbers if he cannot win this battle.

The CPTPP is preferable to the EU because it elevates mutual recognition over harmonisation.

The ‘bins and council tax’ message which resonated in the local elections needs to be turned into a ‘public services, security and cost of living’ message nationally.

That means almost 45 per cent of our planned 20,000 officers are already in forces, and I hope we reach the halfway milestone within the coming months.

These results are in effect identical to a YouGov poll published earlier today. If both we and they are right, Sunak needs a massive game-changer to turn this contest round - and he's running out of...

As her Lord Chancellor, I would have resigned if she had brought forward such proposals (which she wouldn't have done anyway).

Given the sensitivity of the public to mass immigration, what's the explanation for our panel's return above? 

This should be welcomed by all - because it will carry greater legitimacy among the public who sent us to Westminster to be their representatives.

64.18 per cent of our panel think the Conservative Party was wrong to suspend our 2022 Backbencher of the Year compared to 30.89 per cent who think it was right to do so.

The only explanation I can find is that she mistakenly assumed I was just another Tory public school boy, to whom she did not need to bother giving the time of day.

The Party's rules - and the history of legal challenges to them - make for grim reading for the former Chancellor.

It is a tremendous privilege to be a candidate in this election. I will never forget that if elected I will not only be Prime Minister, but Leader of the Conservative Party too.

Look, too, at the track record of EU Member States. In 2020, Germany's highest court ruled on subordinating EU law to German law. The EU took no action.

My conversations with Party members and constituents have provided an almost consistent message that the Prime Minister should be supported.

"I'm very, very positive about China, but I'm very, very negative about the Chinese Communist Party."

He praises the work done by civil servants to prepare for exit without a deal - and suggests the Prime Minister has not been fully informed of their progress.

This was a two horse race between the winner and Suella Braverman - 174 votes to 124 votes. Penny Mordaunt came third with 85 votes.

Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report - and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.

41 per agree that Britain should leave to trade on WTO rules on March 29 compared to 28 per cent who disagree.

It goes almost without saying that the longer Truss is in place, the more damage she will inflict on the Conservatives and the country. But it may be that the Party is currently beyond saving.

Perhaps we should all take a step backwards from comparing CVs, and simply ask ourselves who has a record of delivering for Britain.

For whatever your view of him, the former star of our Moggcast is a House of Commons man through and through and, therefore, completely at ease operating as a backbencher, offering his view to anyone...

P.S: We carry pieces and speeches from all types of Ministers - including one from the Work and Pensions Secretary herself yesterday.

Anyone claiming the UK can negotiate meaningful free trade deals while locking itself into the EU rulebook is propagating a delusion.

Grassroots Conservative members passed their verdict in Beaconsfield and in East Staffordshire, though for very different reasons.

Some Tory members would see such a development as nothing less than an establishment coup: as a conspiracy of bad actors working together to win revenge for Brexit.