Profile: Priti Patel, who promises to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats

It is harder for liberal critics to impute racism, or undue severity, to a Home Secretary who herself belongs to an ethnic minority.

Chris Skidmore: ARIA has to be just the start of a sea-change in British attitudes towards research

Our new agency, with radical freedom to fund blue-sky innovation, is overdue. But its funding is still less than one per cent of UK R&D funding.

Chris Skidmore: Britannia Unchained revisited. How to build on vaccine success – and make Britain a science superpower

The Prime Minister is right to put research and development at the heart of his plan to build back.

Chris Skidmore: Thinking, fast and slow. Why we need a long-term Education Recovery Plan.

Too much learning has been lost, and too many children will find their educational outcomes affected, to simply return to business as usual.

Profile. Kwarteng Unchained. The rise, wobble and rise of the big, bold, bright new Business Secretary

As soon as the emphasis shifts from surviving the pandemic to reviving the economy, he will become a key figure.

Cummings’ skills set

His, Williamson’s and Johnson’s intent to rebalance higher and further education reflects their Red Wall-focused vision – but will it happen?

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority 3) Further education and higher education

There are three main issues for us. The HE/FE balance, making all students welcome on campus and the Conservatives’ own internal housekeeping.

“Get out of London.” Now watch Johnson and Cummings turn the country upside down. Or try to.

Don’t expect Downing Street to bother too much about what MPs or the media think as it prepares to shake up government and Whitehall.

Cabinet League Table: Johnson takes the gold – with Javid in second place

Not a good month for the Foreign Secretary, who slips from third place to eighth. But this is probably just due to the rising popularity of others.

Truss is the new Womens’ Minister, Goldsmith will attend Cabinet. The Government is reshuffled at Ministerial level.

Seven changes in all given the recent run of resignations: it all has a bit of a provisional feel.

Johnson’s ministerial appointments

We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.

Which MP is backing which candidate. Our named estimates. Johnson 131, Hunt 48, Gove 36, Javid 22

Here’s our best stab at who is voting for whom, and this list will be updated each morning, as the contest continues.

Javid’s supporters may now hold the key

He could survive tomorrow’s ballot. If he doesn’t, his supporters will have to ask themselves what sort of final they want.

Mordaunt leads the pack in our latest Cabinet League Table

Truss and Davidson take the other podium spots, challenging the assumptions held in some quarters about the Tory grassroots.

Scruton – and the gulf between Conservatives in Parliament and conservatives outside it

The row over his sacking is a sign of a Party pulled in different directions by the way politics works – and by culture wars. Now a new competitor is knocking at the door.