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Mrs Rayner used her allocation of Commons questions to talk about... housing benefits. Given suspicions that she dodged property taxes, this was a bold if not lunatic decision.
QUENTIN LETTS: James Cleverly is a more emollient, centrist soul than Suella Braverman. That is not the same as saying he projects determination to get much done.
When the Commons goes on the offensive you expect opposition MPs to kick up the din. Not this time. Labour, Lib Dem and Scots Nat benches were near-empty.
QUENTIN LETTS: Tom Hunt was one of the horde of Conservative MPs cheering the Home Office 's announcement that it will start reducing the number of regional hotels housing asylum seekers.
ANALYSIS: The rapid speed with which leaving the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has gone from the fringe of the Conservative Party to the mainstream follows the rise of the current Home Secretary Suella Braverman.