It’s time for Conservatives to get over Thatcher, get on with May – and look forward, not back

The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.

Lewis Baston: The awe-inspiring, smashing, astonishing, record-breaking Conservative and National landslide of 1931

The governments of the 1930s illustrate how little a huge majority is worth if it isn’t married to a strong and imaginative policy programme.

Andrew Wood: We need to follow Macmillan’s example – and let the state build the homes we need

Successful Singapore is simply copying what previous Conservative governments have done – namely, to deliver directly hundreds of thousands of new houses.

Profile: Sajid Javid, whose quest to build more homes is also a fight for his political future

Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.

Tim Patmore: Let’s build a million homes a year – but none of them on the green belt

It can be done, but it requires a great deal of political ambition.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Clarke delivers a tremendous Brexit swansong

Davis and Starmer said the EU referendum result must be respected, but Clarke upheld MPs’ right to defy it.

Alex Morton: Prepare for Javid’s push to help build more of the homes we need

The vast majority of people are neither Not-In-My-Backyarders nor Yes-In-My-Backyarders but Maybe-In-My-Backyarders.

Andy Cook: The industrial strategy must help the bottom 20 per cent improve their life chances

Too many people have seen little wage growth in over two decades, and remain in insecure jobs with no prospect of in-work progression.

Why Trump’s victory raises the stakes for Johnson

He has the potential to become a great Foreign Secretary, but will need to establish a reputation for trustworthiness.

Michael Tomlinson: The Conservatives – delivering to improve workers rights for over a century

As the Commons prepares to debates the effects of Brexit on these rights, here’s the story of how the Party has supplied them from Peel through to Cameron.

Rebecca Coulson: Ten reflections on a Momentum rally

This is history in the making, and that’s what it’s all about.

Build, build, build with Javid

The new Communities Secretary sees the construction of more homes as his priority. It is a daunting political mission.

Iain Dale: Off I go to find The Gayest Thing You’ve Ever Seen

Plus: August, the best political month. Thatcher, the best post-war Prime Minister. Off to Any Questions. Off to Edinburgh. And: will I poison an MP?

Lewis Baston: Labour-inspired, Conservative-inclining. The swing seat story of the New Towns.

They have gone either way in successive elections, but their recent results show up electoral trends that helping the Tories.

Cameron’s last full day as Prime Minister. At his best, he made very difficult things look easy

The media never understood him, and was surprised both by his successes and his failures.