WATCH: Rayner calls for ‘evidence-based’ stop and search

“Targeting stop-and-search rather than just going randomly around saying ‘I think you look like you might be a gang member.'”

WATCH: When Rayner called Labour’s economic strategy “s**t or bust”, she meant it would be “dramatic”, Corbyn claims

“What she was saying was we’re going to have an investment-led economy,” the Labour leader tells Peston, in an interesting redefinition of Rayner’s phrase.

Matt Smith: Welsh Labour’s two decades in power have left behind a lost generation of state school pupils

This year, Wales produced the lowest A* to C grade GCSE results since 2006, with the GCSE attainment gap between the best and worst performing areas widening.

Jonathan Gullis: We Conservatives should make more of our achievements on education reform

The introduction of a classical liberal education system that has knowledge and rigour at its core means a better future for the next generation.

Hammond and May must not allow Labour to scare them off unpicking the pension triple lock

The Opposition’s promise to extend the policy is opportunistic, expensive, and unjust. The Conservatives must do what is necessary and right.

Isabel Oakeshott: By urging that private schools pay VAT, Gove spurred Labour’s new attack on the middle class

While it is no surprise that the current party leadership has leapt at his new idea, neither the moral nor the economic arguments stack up.

Iain Dale: Guess who mentioned Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler…and, yes, Hitler?

Yes, Livingstone named him 12 times when interviewed by me this week. Plus: Saudi Arabia uncovered, Michael Howard unmuzzled. And: In memory of Helen Szamuely.