Starmer – and how the Coronavirus is giving old-fashioned class politics a new lease of life

Johnson will be well aware of this – and will be more concerned about heading Labour’s leader off than by the restive Tory press.

The economy and the virus. Tear up the rulebook – we need Big State Government on a scale unknown in modern times.

The implications of the crisis are such that Johnson and Sunak need not so much to think outside the box as to trample it to tatters altogether.

Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department

Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.

Building the Blue Wall: Stoke South

The fourth in our series: how the 2017 generation of winners from Labour increased their majorities.

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority. 1) Muslims

Johnson will be able to call on the advice and views of the Party’s own Muslim MPs, who now include Saqib Bhatti and Imran Ahmad-Khan.

Iain Dale: There are good ministers left behind by the Government’s drastic shuffle

Plus: There are some promotions which are inexplicable, too; and how fast can Jo Swinson get from Brecon to Edinburgh?

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.

Nadhim Zahawi: Johnson and Raab showed their Brexit commitment by resigning. That’s why we need them both in the final.

If we are to win back voters flirting with the Brexit Party, the Party must use this contest to demonstrate its ironclad commitment to leaving in October.

Chris Skidmore: Military personnel, veterans and their families deserve better access to Higher Education

We are providing funding to help service leavers to go to university, and scholarships for the children of those killed on duty.

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?

Nadhim Zahawi: How we can do more to support care leavers at university

Our new Covenant establishes a set of principles to guide private, public, and third-sector organisations who want to help.

David Burrowes and Nickie Aiken: Coming to you soon. The family hubs revolution.

This week’s National Family Hubs Fair and Conference brought together around 50 organisations that are committed to supporting families.

Nadhim Zahawi: Business has its role to play in the fight against illiteracy

This issue is too important for us to let it be distorted by out-of-date socialist attitudes towards the private sector.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Conservative MPs do not look nearly as loyal as one would think to listen to them

The Prime Minister saw off the Leader of the Opposition, but her own backbenchers seemed glum and thoughtful.

Norfolk County Council has shown how boarding school can transform the prospects for vulnerable children

Yet the efforts of other local authorities to provide such opportunities have been derisory. Ministers give speeches but the Government has failed to act.