Robert Halfon: The political parties are stuck in the Dark Ages

This book tells you more about the demographics of party members than anything you will hear from the usual commentators.

Neil O’Brien: Tomorrow’s Covid vote. We must stick to the plan – and stick together.

Every MP wants to make sure restrictions in their area are as limited as possible. But we’re close to the end now. Let’s not fall near the finish line.

Anand Menon and Matt Bevington: Will Johnson really be able to level up?

Our research with low-income voters in some of these areas revealed that many are not expecting miracles. They simply want better local services.

Mak is co-Chair of the new Conservative Party Policy Board

O’Brien has arrived to find the MP for Havant already in place, who though not a former think tank head is no policy slouch.

Ben Monro-Davies: “I think when women cry, often they are angry.” On this day, 30 years ago, Margaret Thatcher resigned

At the final meeting of her Cabinet, a revived Iron Lady told members, during a coffee break, that “on no account must Heseltine be elected”

Nick King: Johnson’s Reset. The Government needs business if it’s to build back better.

The final article in ConHome’s series on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

The wind of Biden’s change is blowing through Johnson’s Government

America’s result is having knock-on effects in Downing Street: see yesterday’s green speech and today’s defence news.

Neil O’Brien: The plans we must make now to ensure that our ship doesn’t hit the rocks

These are my starters for ten – so it’s over to you. What are the biggest choices? What are the problems that we have to get ahead of to keep afloat?

Caino-ho-ho

Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.

James Frayne: Perhaps the Conservatives should simply revert to being southern and posh

If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.

Iain Dale: Trump is displaying all the signs of believing his own lies. And he is undermining democracy itself.

The fact, however, that he has won five million more votes than he did in 2016 does tell us that we cannot write him off as an aberration.

The Government must publish regular reports on the cost of the virus, restrictions, and this coming lockdown to lives and livelihoods

Our latest survey finds that nine in ten Party members support such a move – a total that this latest news is unlikely to have reduced.

Daniel Hannan: We need Ministers’ estimate of the cost of the lockdown to lives and livelihoods

Publishing the figures will underline that Ministers are striving to be balanced. Never mind how it looks, though: better statistics will lead to better decisions.

How to ensure that disadvantaged children are fed when schools are closed

Ministers could not have handled the matter worse if they’d tried. But Paul Maynard, pictured, is championing a solution.

Iain Dale: The way the BBC and Sky News behave, you’d think we are the only country in the world with a second wave

Plus: Free school meals, Pointless Celebrities, Bower’s book And: “Did the honourable lady just call me scum?” Your chance to drink to that.