Bernard Jenkin: How the power of local teamwork and public support can make test and trace work

The key lesson from the Cambridge scheme is the importance of public support. Eighty per cent of students volunteered to take part.

Ben Everitt: Why the plan for a technical university in Milton Keynes offers new opportunities for higher education – and business

Free Schools spotted a gap in the market and provided a solution to fill it. This initiative has the potential to do the same.

James Palmer: Why I’m backing electric bikes as a safe and healthy way to travel in my region

Emissions from cars are 50 per cent above the national average in Cambridgeshire. We need to boost alternatives to ease congestion.

Raghib Ali: Systemic classism, not racism. Why the main factor in health and educational inequalities is deprivation, not race.

There is now no overall ‘white privilege’ in health or education or overall ‘BAME disadvantage’. These categories are outdated and unhelpful.

Neil O’Brien: No, more economic prosperity doesn’t depend on more social liberalism

I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.

James Blagden: How to level up – and get growth going across the whole of the country

We can’t continue to favour projects such as Crossrail over developing infrastructure in other parts of the country which generate much greater relative returns.

“If you go ‘transgender rights are our big thing’, you are going to lose that culture war”

How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.

Neil O’Brien: R & D. We invest disproportionately in the first at the expense of the second. Here’s how to improve.

This imbalance is driven by the core science budget: the Research Councils (which fund projects) and Quality Related “QR” funding, which universities allocate.

Neil O’Brien: Stormzy, “niggas”, “bitches” – and scholarships. Do we really want to fund racial groups?

Collecting statistics on people’s self-identified racial background is one thing.  Having ringfenced funding for one racial group is quite another.

Neil O’Brien: Policies for a new Britain – in which the central point for new Tory MPs is the moors on the edge of Sheffield

Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?

Election Battlegrounds 4) East of England

Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.

Lord Ashcroft: My focus groups in three heavily remain-voting Liberal Democrat targets

What do voters in Richmond Park, Cambridge, and Finchley & Golders Green think about the Prime Minister, the Opposition, and the election?

Ryan Bourne: To help grow prosperity, let’s focus on people and not places – such as towns

Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.

Ryan Shorthouse: How to boost integration

What is it – and how can we strengthen it? That is the focus of Bright Blue’s latest report, published today.

Alan Mak: Conservatism 4.0 – Adapting our Party for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is our greatest challenge

The battlegrounds of the next election, as well as the wider economy, are being shaped by new technology.