Labour holds Birmingham Erdington on a low turnout

The swing was a below average by-election one to an opposition party, and about half the swing to the party that the national polls are showing.

James Frayne: If Conservatives are serious about levelling-up, here’s what they need to focus on

Radical devolution and a new focus on HE and FE are among two things that can help the Government achieve its aims.

Truss – exploited by those who put tax cuts first, exploiter of those who put tax cuts first

The Foreign Secretary knows that she is being played off by them against the Chancellor. They know she knows. And she knows they know she knows.

WATCH: Trusting the People: a mission for our Party in power

Michael Gove, Jerome Mayhew, Nick Timothy and more join us to discuss the mission of the New Social Covenant Unit.

WATCH LIVE: Trusting The People: a mission for our party in power

Michael Gove, Claire Coutinho, Guy Opperman, Jerome Mayhew and Nick Timothy join our panel.

Football – and taking a knee. If the boos and cheers get louder, Johnson and Dowden will need a plan.

Were they using the Ollie Robinson row yesterday to test the water for a wider, deeper intervention?

Sorry, Matthew, but there’s a Centre Party already – Johnson’s Conservatives

The centre isn’t where he or ConservativeHome or anyone else wants it to be. It’s where it is – “Far From Notting Hill”.

Ryan Bourne: A British overspill from America’s result. Why the debate on the right over economics will now intensify.

Stateside narratives have a tendency to be imported into UK politics – one of the knock-on effects of this messy Presidential election outcome.

James Frayne: Perhaps the Conservatives should simply revert to being southern and posh

If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.

Interview: Goodhart says Johnson understands better than Starmer that a graduate meritocracy alienates manual workers

The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.

The Government has held 86 Coronavirus press conferences. How many has Coffey fronted? None. Why?

If the Prime Minister doesn’t have confidence in his most senior Ministers, it’s impossible to see how anyone else can.

When it comes to dealing with its own MPs, this Government is out of its depth

Some of its problems can be fixed. Others won’t be. And one perhaps can’t be: namely, that this Parliament seems to be incapable of saying No.

Dean Godson: How the Conservatives divide on policy towards China

As with Brexit, much of the Tory family finds itself pitted against the permanent State on how Britain aligns itself in the world.

Danny Kruger: The charities package and real conservatism. Our focus is on neither the individual nor the state, but on what’s between them.

The Treasury’s decision is a vital moment in the battle against coronavirus and in the emerging consensus about the country we want to be in future.

A book which sees the ultra-liberals as a threat. But doesn’t recognise that they’re not having it all their own way.

The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.