White hot heat of the technological Cummings?

This new government seems to want to concentrate its energies on giving Britain a cutting edge. Will it succeed where others have failed?

The Politics of And. Securing the Majority. 4) Getting more Conservatives appointed to public bodies

In government under Cameron, Francis Maude and his SpAds helped to make a difference. Time to call in Baroness Finn to hold a review.

Johnson – at a stroke, a bigger player in foreign affairs, because of his larger majority. But what does he want to do?

The scale of his domestic ambitions and the legacy of the Iraq War suggest that his ambitions will be limited – for the moment at least.

Julian Brazier: So Downing Street wants to tackle defence procurement. Here are five ways in which it should change.

Talk of more competition can be naïve if the choice simply amounts to either buying from a national monopoly or making an off-the-shelf purchase from the USA.

Rachel Wolf: I co-wrote this Conservative manifesto. And so can say that its focus was on neither the rich nor the poor.

To view Britain in such a way is to see a useless picture of the nation. Most people are Just About Managing. And they are our new voters.

Unfit for office. But worse even than Corbyn are Labour’s moderates – who are willing to put his anti-Jewish racism into power.

Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.

Richard Ekins: Judicial power and the election. Can the next Parliament reverse the rise of political litigation?

This is the first of a three-part ConHome mini-series from Policy Exchange on the judges, public policy and the election.

Nick Hargrave: Why Special Advisers should be neither seen nor heard

The trend of the public-facing political aide near the top of government will do more harm than good.

Neil O’Brien: Corbynomics – and why it means that your house, business and savings don’t really belong to you

In his eyes, you have them only as long as the Government suffers you to have them, and they can be retrospectively taken away if he sees fit.

WATCH: Rifkind – enough Tory MPs “might” vote against Boris Johnson

Sir Malcolm Rifkind says there only needs to be “a small number” who rebel, and “it seems likely the numbers are there”.

Richard Chew: We need to professionalise the Special Advisers

They’re an easy target for criticism, but SpAds make all the difference to the Government’s performance and the Party’s prospects.

Who’s supporting whom: David Jeffery’s calculations. 1) Ministers and backbenchers

From the blog of the University of Liverpool academic: his detailed breakdown of the contest.

Iain Dale: Johnson – unstoppable now, unless he unstops himself

Many will hope that Gove and Hunt duke it out in a constructive way for the right to take on the man who is the clear winner from the week’s events.

Williamson. He’s gone away – but he won’t shut up.

What’s that you say?  That what really matters is the Huawei decision itself?  Quite so.  And on that, we have an uncomfortable feeling that he’s right. 

How far should Sedwill go over the Huawei leak?

He is perfectly entitled to crack down on leaks. But it’s worth bearing in mind that this one was scarcely unprecedented.