Eric Ollerenshaw: Conservatives must be bolder on housing policy – and in taking credit for what is being achieving

There’s a development of 5,000 new homes near where I live. The sign board doesn’t mention the large Government grant.

Why Britain wants to leave this European Union of failed nation states

In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.

Robert Halfon: Now is the time for Common Market 2.0, and an EFTA-type plan for Brexit

Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?

Richard Ritchie: Brexit. Four great Commons debates that show how we got here – and what’s at stake.

That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Never glad confident morning again!

Sir Graham Brady’s announcement of the voting figures came as an icy shock to the Prime Minister’s supporters.

The unknown names that live for evermore

These acts of remembrance may in some slight measure salve grief, and enable those who have not had to endure such things to give thanks for those who do.

Why May – and all her predecessors – have failed to cut the Gordian knot of the EU

Andrew Adonis’ new study of Prime Ministers since Churchill shows how difficult it is to reach an acceptable, and practical, European policy.

What Brokenshire is up to as Communities Secretary, sorry, Housing Secretary, sorry, Communities Secretary

He wants to take people with him in his quest to hit the Government’s target. But will radical policy ideas fit with his emollient political approach?

Will Tanner: Our three-point plan to build more houses and boost home ownership

Onward proposes helping half a million young people by lending them a deposit in the same way that government underwrites some of their mortgage costs.

Shaun Spiers: The answer to the housing shortage is more planning, not less

And, as Boles says, we will never build the number of homes we need unless the state is building 100,000 a year.

The Tory Left: not always Out, not necessarily Loud, but definitely Proud – and a growing force

A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.

Strength through joy?

Change, optimism and hope are a step up from paralysis, despair and pessimism. But successful politicians don’t necessarily radiate uplift.

Nicky Morgan: As Onward launches today, Number Ten needs to give us all something to hope for

The Government should consider setting up a domestic policy Cabinet sub-committee to help alleviate the Brexit bandwidth problem.

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

Lewis Baston: How Torrington launched the tradition of Liberal by-election shocks

Looking back, 55 years of Liberal and Liberal Democrat by-election success looks less important than UKIP’s two-year surge.