Strangely subdued

The mood of this conference has been supportive but apprehensive. And now we are finally seeing the outlines of Johnson’s negotiating plan.

Progressive Conservative reformers 1) Gove, “the most important Education Secretary since Butler”

Even Corbyn’s Labour is wary of assaulting his free school and academy legacy directly.

Johnson’s ministerial appointments

We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.

Robert Halfon: Skills, social justice, standards, and support for teachers. A four-part manifesto for the new Prime Minister.

By extending the ladder of opportunity to those who currently lack it, e can ensure the next generation climbs it.

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.

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

John Bald: Mixed ability teaching is still stopping our children learn languages

Vacuous proposals for a “national strategy” are made – with no reference to standards or teaching methods. Wishful thinking won’t fix the system.

Future of Education 2) Mark Lehain: Now we need full academisation and reformed funding

The second writer in our mini-series says that creating more grammars is a distraction from change that matters.

Conservative education policy is up for grabs

We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.

John Bald: The effective teaching of multiplication tables is long overdue

Does the National Education Union want teenagers to count on their fingers? That’s the consequence if one severs mathematics education from its base in arithmetic.

John Bald: Schools are still failing to exclude bullies

The perpetrators of school violence and disruption inflict more harm on the education of other pupils, and to the morale of teachers, than they do on themselves.

John Bald: It is becoming harder for Leftist academics to attack phonics

Teaching children to spell is not an act of cruelty – they have a large smiles on their faces when they get something right.

More good school places for pupils. Back to the future with Hinds.

His first major interview returns policy to the spirit of May’s original education ideas, with new faith schools and expanded selective ones as part of the mix.

Mark Lehain: The times tables reform. Not a giant leap – but one of so many small steps for the better.

A fairer funding formula, better behaviour, fluency in numeracy and literacy, a richer National Curriculum, better exams: these appeal to voters’ innate common sense.

After his success on reading, Gibb gets his way on times tables

The Schools Minister has been a near-constant presence at the forefront of educational reform. It’s good that Hinds is listening to him.