Gavin Williamson: Skills, jobs and freedom. My priorities for this week’s Queen’s Speech – and the year ahead.
Our new Lifelong Loan Entitlement will give everyone the equivalent of four years of post-18 education to use over their lifetime.
How likely is Batley & Spen to become the Conservatives’ “most Muslim seat”?
When will two separate independent reports appear – into the Batley Grammar Mohammed cartoons row, and discrimination within the Conservative Party?
Garvan Walshe: After a year of lockdown, Madrid’s voters aren’t the only ones who want freedom
People need to feel in control of their lives and communities again, and this need is now at its strongest after a year of repression and enforced passivity.
Alan Duncan: The Conservative Party has a moral blind spot about the rights of Palestinians
The Government’s response to the proposed evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and the violence in the Al-Aqsa mosque show that it has been living a lie for years.
Why there is so much grassroots disquiet at the Welsh Tories’ best-ever Senedd result
Whilst the leadership talks up 16 MSs, activists are angry about missing so many target seats and failing to mobilise the 2019 vote.
The socially distanced and politically distanced Queen’s Speech
Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.
Daniel Hannan: Super Thursday’s results weren’t a victory for conservatism, but for our leader: Brexity Jezza
With economics, sleaze and environmentalism off the table, Labour is only left with the culture wars to fight the Tories on.
Radical: The criminal justice system has been captured by gender-identity ideology
Recent guidance from the Judicial College goes far beyond appropriate and reasonable steps to ensure that transgender individuals are treated fairly.
Jonathan Werran: As recent local elections showed, the mayoral revolution has been a success. Now it must roll on.
The role of strong local leadership here cannot be underestimated in galvanizing place prosperity.
The centre ground. What it means. And what it doesn’t.
It shouldn’t need stating, but clearly does, that the spectrum as we think of it has zero resonance with the public.
Is the Blue Wall around London in danger of cracking?
Local factors? The usual backlash against the party in power? Or a long-term trend away from the Conservatives in some of their heartlands?
Sam Hall: Conservative lessons from Houchen and Street about how to respond to the Greens
By uniting behind Johnson’s plan, and replicating the approach of these two mayors, the the environment can become a winning issue for the party.
Ryan Bourne: How Government is making childcare more expensive
Upper class professionals are imposing their preference for formal settings – bringing the trade-off of higher prices and fewer affordable providers.
English election results live blog wrap-up. Final gains and losses in the local and mayoral contests.
We make it twelve net Conservative council gains, Labour up by three mayoralties…and one LibDem council gain.
Be ready for a general election in the spring of 2023
These elections were very good indeed for the Conservatives – though there are warning signs of a potential Blue Wall effect in the south.