Now not all that much difference between the proportion of adults who tell the ONS they smoke (12.9 per cent) and the proportion who admit they take some form of illegal substance (9.5 per cent). More on this in tomorrow's newsletter, try free at ft.com/tryinsidepolit…

Eye-popping story from Billy Kenber this: thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-m…

Dividing Lines by Tom Hamilton is always worth your time: dividinglines.substack.com/p/agent-truss

Really enjoying Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪’s “Screwed” - a great account of UK prisons - out 25 April from Biteback Publishing and really worth your time.

Terrific piece on the BJP’s election machine by Benjamin Parkin, John Reed जॉन रीड and jyotsna singh: ft.com/content/d5a1df…

Think the stuff about the scale of the rebellion against Rishi Sunak is overstated (not least as it was a free vote) and misses how much the Conservative party has shifted towards anti-smoking positions: ft.com/content/38abc3…

Think some of the coverage of tonight’s vote is a bit too mired in the (IMO correct) “Rishi Sunak, limited prime minister who is heading to defeat” meta-take. Tonight’s rebellion isn’t that large, comparatively speaking. More tomorrow: ft.com/tryinsidepolit…

This is really good by ⁦Stephen Bush⁩
See also NHS poor communication. Not a bug but a feature of rationing in some cases at least. on.ft.com/4cQFThk

This is true and it strikes me far too close to home

Typically thought-provoking piece by Stephen Bush on governmental incompetence as 'a backdoor mechanism for cost control' ft.com/content/12ef8c… via @ft

Incompetence is understudied. My column in today’s FT on why that’s a problem: ft.com/content/12ef8c…

The growing sense of horror that there is no real alternative but to write about the UK's Rwanda policy again in today's newsletter. Sign up now to try me at my most irritable and jaundiced, for free: ft.com/tryinsidepolit…

Terrific piece on Iran's attack and what Tehran is thinking: ft.com/content/0f2a35…

You should read this only if you’ve watched ‘Civil War’ or have resolved never to watch ‘Civil War’ about the scene that won’t stop rattling around my head: latimes.com/entertainment-…

Maybe a better use of the government’s ‘headroom’ would have been to throw the guts of £10bn at this across two fiscal events, who can say? ft.com/content/cd3f4d…