Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Javid on how Enoch Powell lost a generation of ethnic minority voters

The Home Secretary also spoke of the vital need to fix the housing crisis.

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.

James Kanagasooriam: The Conservatives have no secure future as a governing party unless they win many more ethnic minority votes

The good news is that there is an enormous opportunity for the Party – because it is much worse at converting people considering voting Blue into actual voters.

Mohamed Y Ali: The Conservative candidate for Mayor of London must have a real understanding of defeating crime

The former youth worker and London Assembly member Shaun Bailey could offer hope to disadvantaged communities.

Shaun Bailey: We are the party of social mobility – but we must increase our focus on disadvantaged communities

They feel left behind and untouched by the economic progress that has been made. Getting people into work must be at the top of our priority list.

Binita Mehta-Parmar: Javid has a crucial opportunity to improve the Government’s standing among BME voters

He is uniquely placed to start to rebuild trust – and that task is essential to our Party’s future.

Alex Morton: A solution to Tory electoral problems in the capital. Work to make it more like the rest of England.

It’s wrong to claim that May and Brexit have brought new problems for the Conservatives in London. These were clear in 2015 under Cameron.

Why an inquiry into the treatment of the Windrush children is needed (reprise)

The Home Office won’t be fit for purpose to administer a post-Brexit migration system without a full understanding of what went wrong.

Alex Morton: Conservatives and Liberals share a new opponent – Progressive Authoritarians

But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.

Sunder Katwala: “Rivers of blood” and a striking reflection. Powell set the bar too low on integration.

Across this half-century, from Scarman after Brixton to MacPherson after Stephen Lawrence, governments have engaged only sporadically engaged with race.

Mohammed Amin: The Conservatives are losing ground again on BME representation

Last year’s general election saw Labour decisively re-open a lead which we had worked hard to reduce in 2010 and 2015.

Binita Mehta-Parmar: What the Tories need to do to improve their standing with minority voters

The reshuffle showed just how far BME Conservatives have come since I first joined the Party, but we have much farther still to go.

Scully replaces Hammond as Party Vice-Chair for London

The MP for Sutton and Cheam will have his work cut out to reconnect the Tories to a city which some fear could become their “next Scotland”.

Eric Pickles: My general election review is a blueprint for a stronger party

I want our Party to come out of the process stronger and more adept at campaigning – ready to win.

Sunder Katwala: How ethnic minority voters cost May her majority

If the Conservatives had won 42 per cent from them too, our research projects that she would have won with a comfortable 42-seat majority.