Neil Carmichael: Grammar schools are popular, but they don’t do much for social mobility

I have two such schools in my constituency. But I don’t share the enthusiasm of some of my colleagues for lifting the ban.

Mark Morrin and Phillip Blond: How to help white working class children in deprived areas to prosper

Grammar schools are part of a mix that could boost opportunity in places such as Knowsley – the second most deprived authority in England

Mark Jenkinson: May is bringing Conservatives home.

UKIP has no hope of implementing such policies as new grammar schools – only the Conservatives can.

James Frayne: The four big issues Downing Street needs to fix

May’s team have got off to a good start, but as they take stock after conference some early challenges are clearly taking shape.

Henry Hill: DUP signal support for May on grammar schools

Also: Sturgeon warned that she risks repeating Labour’s mistakes by governing timidly; Hain hits out at Cardiff Bay for dodging referendum on powers; and more.

David Boyle: What will Theresanomics look like?

There has been huge investment in physical capital. But meanwhile, the effort to revitalise our human capital has been fragmented, centralised and half-hearted.

WATCH: Ici Londres – The case for grammar schools

We need a wide diversity of schools – not a binary system.

“Change has got to come.” May’s Conference speech: full text

“We believe in the good that government can do.”

John Bald: The Mossbourne alternative to grammar schools works

But too often the switch to comprehensives meant mixed ability, equality of outcomes and the head being beaten up.

Martin Parsons: We must end the prejudice against secondary modern schools

The statistics actually suggest that, nationally, students of a similar ability do better in these schools than in comprehensives.

Garvan Walshe: Grammar Schools: May’s Miners’ strike or her poll tax?

The right strategy could divide and overcome her opponents.

Protests over May’s grammar school plans, quiet about her independent school ones. The latter are losing support on the Right.

The rising proportion of foreign children is eating away at the latter’s backing among the upper-to-better-off-middle class.

Nadhim Zahawi: The Government is right to seek more grammar schools

They will be adding to a diverse state education system far removed from the binary system of the past.

May needs fixers

The combination of a small majority, radical intent, a flow of power one way to Cabinet Ministers and another to key aides requires adjustment.

Mark Field: Yes, we need more grammars – but also more technical and vocational schools

Far from a throwback to the past, the public needs urgently to see that this welcome debate is about equipping us for a post-Brexit future.