James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month

Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Good King Boris triumphs over the doomsters

Seldom have the politics of magnanimity been used so skilfully to baffle dissent.

Judy Terry: Real local accountability could reduce wasteful spending in the NHS

There are glossy reports and poorly attended meetings. But obvious failings are ignored.

Matt Hancock: With this One Nation Conservative Government in place, we can greet this New Year with excitement and optimism

We have the mandate and the majority. Let’s make 2020 a year of progress and work now to set up a decade we can all be proud of.

Adrian Mason: Why should non-Labour North Wales be the prisoner of the socialist monopoly in South Wales?

What has been the Conservative Party ‘s response at Westminster to this situation? Incredibly, it has been to offer Wales even more devolution.

Sunder Katwala: The Conservatives, ethnic minority voters, and the election. Next to no progress.

Not being white remains the number one demographic predictor of not voting Tory.

Tania Mathias: The Government must put NHS workers at the heart of its policy

Patients must always come first, but the best outcomes rely on attracting, training, and retaining the very best staff.

“My Government will embark on an ambitious programme of domestic reform”. The Queen’s Speech – full text

Although Brexit is the headline, the spotlight is on a range of measures aimed at schools, the NHS, the police, and the justice system.

Johnson – at a stroke, a bigger player in foreign affairs, because of his larger majority. But what does he want to do?

The scale of his domestic ambitions and the legacy of the Iraq War suggest that his ambitions will be limited – for the moment at least.

Robert Halfon: For years, I’ve urged that the Conservatives become a Workers Party. Now it is one.

As the Prime Minister said, many people have lent us their vote, and they won’t be so generous next time if we get it wrong.

Andy Street: My ten-point West Midlands plan for the new Government

The Prime Minister was right to say many voters have only ‘lent’ us their votes. We must now earn that trust, by ensuring the benefits of life in a post-Brexit Britain reach all communities.

Rachel Wolf: I co-wrote this Conservative manifesto. And so can say that its focus was on neither the rich nor the poor.

To view Britain in such a way is to see a useless picture of the nation. Most people are Just About Managing. And they are our new voters.

Neil O’Brien: Policies for a new Britain – in which the central point for new Tory MPs is the moors on the edge of Sheffield

Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?

David Davis: How to keep the new working class voters we won last Thursday – and win even more

In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks.   It will be a battle between creativity and convention.

“Get out of London.” Now watch Johnson and Cummings turn the country upside down. Or try to.

Don’t expect Downing Street to bother too much about what MPs or the media think as it prepares to shake up government and Whitehall.