| When it comes to defending their own policies you'd think politicians have the intelligence to form their own arguments. Yet our first piece today suggests Home Office minister Mike Penning could be checking Google for new ways to argue against drug reform. In a letter to Sajid Javid about concerns raised by a mother whose two sons died from a heroin overdose, Penning included a passage which appears to have been lifted from a drugs website.
PMQ's has often been criticised for it's schoolboy jeering but it was taken to a whole new level today with Cameron and Corbyn trading 'your mum' jokes. It should have been a fairly easy week for the Labour leader, the press have been focused on divisions in the Tory party over the EU and with more junior doctors strikes announced yesterday he could have really hurt the prime minister. Instead, our verdict suggests he was ill-prepared and let Cameron off the hook.
Elsewhere, we report that Zac Goldsmith says he'd have an "ethical obligation" to demolish London's council estates if he becomes the next mayor of the capital.
And finally, we have a piece which looks at the government's proposed cuts to benefits for the sick and disabled. It's hard to defend taking money away from vulnerable people as a way of helping them but that's exactly what happened in the Commons yesterday as MPs voted against the Lords' amendments to the welfare reform bill. | 
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