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.

Local elections 3) The contest with the Lib Dems – their revival has come far more at the expense of the Conservatives than of Labour

The Lib Dems have made net gains of 400 seats, so far.

Conservative education policy is up for grabs

We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.

James Palmer: We need a Minister for East West Rail

We must drive this project forward. It is a vital piece of infrastructure which could allow a million new homes to be built. But we need to sort out the route.

George Freeman: Come to our Big Tent Ideas Festival next weekend. And help build conservatism and capitalism for a new generation.

Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Dan Hannan, Liam Halligan, Steve Baker, Tom Tugendhat & others will speak. And there’s a special discount for ConHome readers.

Syed Kamall: The electoral disaster that will engulf our Party if we don’t boost our ethnic minority support

Once a seat reaches 30 per cent BME population, it goes Labour. In 2010, this applied to 75 seats. By 2022, it could apply to around 120 seats.