Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: This unbrushed, unkempt Prime Minister reckons he can beat the Nats

He attacked the SNP for wanting the poor, hard-pressed taxpayer “to pay for more and more and more”.

Alistair Lexden: The Conservatives and the Carlton Club – in partnership for nearly 200 years

From Wellington to Johnson, this institution has managed to keep itself at the heart of Tory politics.

The amazing story of Mohammad Sarwar shows how Sturgeon can be defeated

The former Glasgow MP is now, astonishingly, Governor of Punjab, while his son is getting ready to attempt the revival Scottish Labour.

Amanda Milling: We’re delivering on our promises – and couldn’t do it without grassroots support

If not for your efforts on the doorstep and the endless nights of telephone canvassing, we would not have defeated Corbyn’s Labour Party a year ago.

From Disraeli to Johnson, the Left has never understood the Right, and Fawcett shows us why

A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.

Interview: Goodhart says Johnson understands better than Starmer that a graduate meritocracy alienates manual workers

The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.

The Conservative Party Conference programme – and which ministers are up and down

It’s speeches for Sunak, Patel and Raab; interviews in different formats for Gove, Hancock and others; while others still are relegated to panels…

Interview: “Petrolhead” Milling denies that Elliot is really in charge at CCHQ, and says that she’s visited all 48 Red Wall seats

The co-Party Chairman says next year’s local elections will definitely go ahead, and won’t give a figure for Party membership.

Why the Germans don’t always do it better

Using modern Germany as a stick with which to beat old-fashioned Britain is a grave mistake.

David Gauke: Without a proper state aid regime, the UK is unlikely to reach a deal with Brussels

Even putting aside the EU dimension, there are very good arguments for having one in place.

Kanwal Gill and Patrick O’Connor: Why we’re launching the Conservative Diversity Project

Our Party is at its best when it is a broad church, not only on the political spectrum but when we have voices from all walks of life.

Johnson benefits from the scorn of critics such as Parris, for it suggests the Prime Minister is still an outsider

I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.

The people in whose name liberals act are absent from Applebaum’s defence of liberalism

Much of this book is true, and the author does not pretend fully to understand what is happening. And yet I think her pessimism is overdone.

Andrew Bridgen: It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic to expose the scandal of Leicester’s sweatshops

Workers who are effectively modern slaves have been put into the position of having to choose either to work or starve during lockdown.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: There is a place not just for smiles but for Samuel Smiles in the Chancellor’s vision

Dodds, replying for Labour, claimed Johnson’s motto is “The buck stops anywhere but here”.