WATCH: Government must “publish the science” behind June date for schools reopening, says Rayner

“I want to see Gavin working with the parents to reassure them”.

WATCH: New Labour deputy attacks Government over virus testing

Rayner says: ‘We’re nowhere near testing enough, the government has to start testing’, and criticises Hancock for returning to work too soon.

A new Leader of the Opposition: the results in full

It looks like a comprehensive rout for the hard left, with neither Long-Bailey nor Burgon getting close in their respective contests.

Iain Dale: Which Starmer will we get as Labour’s new leader this weekend? Radical Starmer? Or Safety First Starmer?

For his Shadow Cabinet, I would choose media friendly spokespeople, and back them up with deputies more on the policy wonkish side of things.

WATCH: Rayner warns of Labour “factionalism”

“We can’t just fragment. We have got to come together. There has been a culture where people have felt they have not been welcomed.”

Conservative Party members think Keir Starmer would be the most effective Labour leader

And by ranking Rayner second, they appear to agree that “Rebecca Long Bailey isn’t even the best Labour leader in her own flat”.

John Bald: Labour’s education policy of hiding failings by abolishing tests and independent inspection is the way of the ostrich

But there remains important unfinished business for the Conservatives to carry out – if we get the opportunity.

John Bald: Education was once a source of pride in Scotland. It is now a serious embarrassment to the SNP.

Wales is the only home country to be below the OECD average in reading, maths, and science.

WATCH: Rayner refuses to say if a Labour government would take position on a Brexit deal

The Shadow Education Secretary says the question about Labour’s stance on a future withdrawal agreement is a hypothetical one.

James Frayne: Why the Conservatives must go negative on Corbyn

In my view, they’d be mad not to make him a defining feature of their campaign. The party should be running a contrast campaign with ‘Corbyn’s Labour’.

John Bald: Labour’s threat to take schools back to the 1970s

Successful schools would have to toe the line or be subject to the attentions of local democratic controllers. They could be destroyed without shutting them down.

The Left uses far worse language about the Tories than Johnson would ever use about the Benn Act

The Prime Minister’s opponents are entirely within their rights to condemn his choice of words, but not to the useful lie that he’s breaking new ground.

Progressive Conservative reformers 1) Gove, “the most important Education Secretary since Butler”

Even Corbyn’s Labour is wary of assaulting his free school and academy legacy directly.

Ten reasons why the second referendum campaign is in disarray

The People’s Vote is bound up with New Labour and talk of a new party. This does nothing to help it among Tory MPs…and much to harm it among Labour ones.

Will Tanner: Labour’s war on free schools would be a direct attack on social mobility

Rayner’s hostility to academies runs against both the interests and preferences of parents and pupils alike.