Bim Afolami: The big question facing Johnson. What does fiscal conservatism mean in an age of the big state?

My view is that the only way to help square this circle is to rediscover our concern for public service reform.

Alex Morton: Ministers can have more houses or higher immigration. But they won’t be able to get away with both.

Annual net migration currently suggests 55,000 more homes a year since the 2014 projections – more than the entire rise planned after the housing row.

Johnson’s unpopular but urgent task on planning: to be the champion of the not-yet-propertied

Bob Seely is wrong – building more homes is not just about ‘local people’.

Adrian Lee: Rent to Buy could allow the Government to revive the dream of a property-owning democracy

The key is not just to get homes built, but to provide realistic pathways to ownership for middle- and working-class families.

The Government must deliver more homes, and they must be in the South

It is nonsense to suggest that ‘levelling up’ demands misdirecting building targets to places where housing is already affordable.

Nick King: Levelling up. The challenge is less defining it than delivering it, for which Johnson will need the private sector.

The first of a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about the most distinctive of the Prime Minister’s big aims.

Ben Southwood: Why planning reform may work this time round, delivering us the new homes that we need

The key theme in the Planning White Paper is local consent, which could unlock the door to new development.

The socially distanced and politically distanced Queen’s Speech

Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.

Alex Morton: Scrapping planning won’t happen. And increasing permissions won’t work. Why we need a new Housing Guarantee.

The local plan process must remain at the heart of planning, so we must find a way to work within the existing framework.

While MPs undermine efforts to develop a proper strategy, Jenrick channels Ridley to get houses built

The rate of successful appeals is apparently running higher even than it did during the 1980s.

James Olney: Underwriting mortgage risk and a stamp duty holiday won’t deliver the home ownership we need

Ministers cannot simply continue to perpetuate a broken system because of the painfully obvious but so often unspoken political risk implicit in reforming the market.

Never mind a coal mine – housing is where Jenrick’s planning power really lies. And he can use it to build, build, build.

Like Ridley in the 1980s, the Secretary of State can brute-force his way past the NIMBY’s blocking tactics by granting appeals.

If the Government won’t force the Tory shires to build more houses, perhaps it should bribe them instead

It’s time to stop pretending there is any way to solve the shortage without building in the South and face up to what it will take to get that done.

Brave New World

We fear the worst after Cummings’ departure, but Johnson must now make the best of it. That means a Cabinet shuffle.

Caino-ho-ho

Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.