Sunder Katwala: Can Johnson get the balance on immigration right?

Research suggests that the public salience of immigration has fallen significantly since 2016. What does this mean for the government going forward?

Neil O’Brien: The balance of power between economic and social conservatives may be shifting to the latter

We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.

The behaviours of the civil service

At the heart of the Rutnam row is its reservations not only about how the post-Brexit journey is being negotiated, but about taking it in the first place.

Garvan Walshe: The cost of Johnson’s Brexit will be paid by his new Red Wall voters

The election delivered Conservative MPs located precisely in the industrial areas that are vulnerable to the government’s own policy of divergence.

“If you go ‘transgender rights are our big thing’, you are going to lose that culture war”

How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.

Is the Home Office still unfit for purpose?

If Downing Street doesn’t grip the campaign against Patel by allies of her Permanent Secretary and others, it may spiral out of control.

The new points-based immigration system gives ministers a lot of room for manoeuvre

It really depends on what meaning the Government ends up giving to “approved sponsor”, “appropriate skill level”, and “shortage occupation”.

Andrew Green: The Conservatives’ new immigration policy risks the numbers running out of control

Yet another failure to keep a clear promise would be deeply damaging, especially in the ‘Red Wall’.

Rudd and the reshuffle. Not the best woman to make the case for women

If she wants to sound off, fine. But Johnson brought her back, and she then resigned – claiming he didn’t want a Brexit deal. Why should he heed her now?

The claim that the UK has become a more xenophobic country since the referendum is a damaging myth

Since 2016, the amount of “hate crime” has probably gone down. The number of UK residents from other EU states has certainly gone up.

James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month

Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.

Stephen Booth: We’re about to take back control – but what do we want to do with it?

Withdrawal from the EU provides a necessity and an opportunity to illustrate that the UK is “open for business”.

Ali Demirbag: A post-Brexit visa regime must encourage the brightest and the best to travel to the UK on business

We need to control long-term immigration but also make it easier for entrepreneurs to visit the UK so that they can invest in and work with British companies.

Roger Scruton: The ten principles that should form the foundation of a modern Conservative policy.

We republish a personal Tory manifesto first published by this site almost exactly five years ago.

Ryan Shorthouse and Anvar Sarygulov: We need more migrants to become citizens

Doing so would improve social integration, enhance the contribution that migrants make, and allay public discontent over immigration.