WATCH: Ici Londres – What can we say to those who lose out from free trade? asks Daniel Hannan

Many more may gain, but there are those who are understandably aggrieved nonetheless.

Antoinette Sandbach: We won’t make a success of Brexit if we don’t boost productivity

We should seek the closest possible relationship with the EU and an open trade policy. Firms need confidence to invest.

Damian Green: While we cut taxes on small businesses, Labour wants to raise them

Supporting businesses to start and grow is a key part of our modern industrial strategy.

John Horam: This Government can succeed if it focuses on key policies

Brexit, housing, public sector pay, education, and industrial strategy should be the the stars by which ministers set a course for victory in 2022.

Prospects for the economy 2) Andy Silvester: The fundamentals are strong. But confidence is in shorter supply.

Doomsday predictions remain overblown, but the real, specific concerns of business are worth listening to nonetheless.

James Frayne: How free marketeers should respond to May’s interventionism

Other than saying, “the state should stay out of things”, they haven’t had much to say. This must change. They need to set out how they’d do things better.

Nick Faith: To deliver world-class vocational education, May must take on the higher education establishment

The second part of a ConHome mini-series on the future of technical education after this general election.

Manifesto small print 7) Sovereign wealth funds

Several new investment vehicles will put Theresa May’s belief in “the good that government can do” into action across multiple sectors.

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.

Corbyn’s manifesto shows exactly why his crashing incompetence matters

He can’t manage an ordered manifesto launch, but wants voters to give him direct control of vast swathes of industry.

James Frayne: May, not Cameron, is the real heir to Blair

Those looking to find what she really stands for may one day get an answer. But the point for the here and now is: she seeks to dominate the mainstream.

Our survey and the manifesto. How party members ranked potential policies – from defence to HS2. Full list.

Keeping the triple lock third from bottom; scrapping the Human Rights Act fifth from top; an energy price cap fourth from bottom.

Free marketeers and interventionists battle for the soul of the Conservative manifesto

The former fear that it will revive what they believe are business-unfriendly ideas about foreign takeovers and workers on boards.

Alex Morton: Will this election deliver the Joe Chamberlain-style conservatism that May really wants?

In her belief in “the good that government can do”, she is quite unique in terms of UK political post-war history.

Julian Glassford: Five ways to keep the boat afloat in a post-liberal dystopian storm

We should take the opportunity to remind ourselves what real progress means and rededicate ourselves to its cause.