Robert Halfon: Johnson delivers for the workers but Starmer could win back their votes

Never underestimate the power of Labour. Its message of helping the underdog and the poor is enduring, still popular and extremely potent.

Rob Sutton: Top Tories on Twitter. Case Study 2) Johnny Mercer

He entered Parliament as a man on a mission and is quite happy to ruffle some feathers along the way.

Six months on from last year’s general election, it’s only the LibDems who bang on about Europe

The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.

Gavin Barwell: We underestimate Starmer at our peril

Theresa May’s former Chief of Staff takes issue with the Deputy Editor of this site – and argues that the Labour leader may yet make it to Number Ten.

Keir Starmer: For all his “forensic brilliance”, the Labour leader’s chances at the next election are overhyped

His barrister credentials have impressed the media. But they will only take him so far in the future election.

Mark Lehain: The rivalries and Corbynism that are driving the biggest education union’s extremist stance on school reopenings

I’m a former union rep myself – and am finding that schools, empowered by the Gove reforms, are quietly getting on with preparations,

Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 1) How Brown’s Government planned £94 billion of cuts

As the tenth anniversary of the 2010 election approaches, the author says that Labour’s own austerity record and plans were almost as tough as the Coalition’s.

Richard Holden: Labour has socially distanced from voters in my seat – and others in the north and midlands. Starmer won’t change that.

The party is pinned down where it feels at home – in its new heartlands of central London, the middle of major cities and the University towns.

Iain Dale: Starmer makes a good start. Now, just remind me. His predecessor was Jeremy…who?

Plus: Scam PPE offers. Johnson’s very real illness. And: I’m wondering about the rest of his body. (My dog’s, not my partner’s.)

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The new Opposition leader begins, in a quiet way, to set the agenda

The new Leader of the Opposition looked more at ease than the First Secretary of State, Dominic Raab, standing in for Boris Johnson.

The Corbynites may have handed Starmer a stick with which to beat them – the ICO

The leaked report undoubtedly poses serious difficulties, but it may also offer a chance to move decisively against the previous regime.

Danny Kruger: The charities package and real conservatism. Our focus is on neither the individual nor the state, but on what’s between them.

The Treasury’s decision is a vital moment in the battle against coronavirus and in the emerging consensus about the country we want to be in future.

Can Starmer surprise us?

He will have to be more than a kind of North London John Smith if he wants to do more than just profit from the Government’s misfortunes. 

A new Leader of the Opposition: the results in full

It looks like a comprehensive rout for the hard left, with neither Long-Bailey nor Burgon getting close in their respective contests.

Iain Dale: Which Starmer will we get as Labour’s new leader this weekend? Radical Starmer? Or Safety First Starmer?

For his Shadow Cabinet, I would choose media friendly spokespeople, and back them up with deputies more on the policy wonkish side of things.