Ed Vaizey: Government must will the means, as well as the ends, in supporting public service broadcasters

They do vital work that benefits the whole nation, but won’t be able to compete with the Big Tech giants unless ministers take action now.

Whacking the BBC. Change is coming – whether the Corporation likes it or not.

This site is opposed to subscription funding and a decriminalised licence fee. But both will be forced on the BBC if it doesn’t reform.

Three takeaways from yesterday’s select committee chairmanship elections

These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

Julian Knight: The Culture Select Committee should act as its own Royal Commission on the BBC’s future

The next few months should see the start of a proper, root-and-branch review of the Corporation to help it find a new model and a new role.

Which MP is backing which candidate. Our named estimates. Johnson 131, Hunt 48, Gove 36, Javid 22

Here’s our best stab at who is voting for whom, and this list will be updated each morning, as the contest continues.

WATCH: May claims Corbyn would cause “a run on the pound” and “capital flight” as he attacks her economic record

Meanwhile Julian Knight asks if the Birmingham bin strike is a warning of what the nation will face under “a hard-left Labour Government”.

List of PPS’s

It doesn’t seem to be complete yet, but here are as many of the appointments as have been released to date.

Julian Knight: Companies must be held to their pension commitments

There are better ways to close the deficits in workplace schemes than shifting the burden to the state and giving employers an unfair advantage.

The complete Cameron’s Children: an analysis of all 74 new Conservative MPs

On the surface, this intake looks different from those that have preceded it – and is in some respects. But beneath it, this is in many ways a very traditional Tory group.

Battlegrounds Revisited 7) West Midlands

This week we examine another region where the main parties fought themselves to a stalemate, whilst UKIP positioned themselves for future success.