Peter Ainsworth: The truth is that universities do not offer value for money

A large part of the financial return to the average student arises out of the loss the government makes on student loans.

Reshuffle 1) The lesson of this PJ Masks shakeup. For Johnson and Cummings, it is truly Do or Die.

We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?

Donelan, Quin, and Stewart join the whips office; Spencer, Stephenson, and Freer promoted

The Prime Minister completes the mini-reshuffle she started last week. Will she now give the new appointees a chance to grow into the role?

Chris Grayling: Tory members should step forward to help the Year of Engineering

We need to inspire young people into these careers if we are to deliver our ambitious infrastructure agenda and the industrial strategy.

Parliamentary Private Secretaries: full list

Seema Kennedy becomes the Prime Minister’s second PPS. Brexiteer Kwasi Kwarteng is PPS to Philip Hammond. And much, much more.

Battleground Seats 1) The South West

We open a ConservativeHome series, which will run each Monday during the election campaign, on the key contests in each region

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.

Results of the first tranche of Select Committee elections

Some backbenchers are unhappy that people who already have a job as a PPS have been allowed to stand.

Battlegrounds Revisited 2) The South West

We continue our post-match inspection of our battleground profiles with the Liberal Democrat graveyard of the South West.