Iain Dale: Were it not for the fringe at each year’s Conservative conference, what would be the point of coming?

Plus: How should you respond when someone comes up and tells you that they love what you do?

Priti Patel: I will give the police the powers they need to defeat crime. Full text of her conference speech

“This daughter of immigrants, needs no lectures from the North London metropolitan liberal elite.”

WATCH: “To the criminals, I simply say this: We are coming after you,” warns Priti Patel

The Home Secretary declares that the Conservatives will “renew our place as the party of law and order”.

Javid keeps the gold but Johnson and Rees-Mogg fail to medal in our Cabinet League Table

Brexiteers retain their stranglehold on the top of the chart, but there is a general downward drift. Is it a foretaste of what might happen if we fail to leave the EU next month?

WATCH: The Cameron memoirs. “There is no point in going over the past,” says Patel.

“The referendum has happened. We’ve all moved on. And we are now working to deliver that referendum mandate.”

Javid, Johnson, and Rees-Mogg hold their podium slots in our Cabinet League Table

The data for this was collected before the Government’s string of Commons defeats – next month’s may look rather different.

Daniel Hannan: How to keep our pledges to the EU nationals who live here

We must not allow a situation where, through oversight, such a child, years from now, could face a Windrush-type debacle.

Marshall Tisdale: Scotland’s drug statistics are a call to arms for radical reform

We need to stop treating addicts like criminals and forcing people who want to experiment to forge contacts with black-market dealers.

Is Patel’s pledge to “end freedom of movement” merely smoke and mirrors?

Javid said it would be impossible to reconcile with the Government’s commitments to EU nationals currently in the UK, and it still looks as if he’s right.

So we’ve had NHS, policing and immigration plans from Johnson. Stand ready for a schools spending pledge.

He committed during the leadership election contest to raise it to £5000 per pupil – and level up outside London.

“To literally feel terror”

Patel’s aim and Johnson’s announcements will be difficult to deliver, but he is intent on proving that his Government is “on your side”.

Javid pips Johnson and Rees-Mogg to the top of the podium in our first Cabinet League Table of the new Government

Meanwhile Ruth Davidson, so often one of the highest-scoring politicians, is at the bottom of the chart after her row with Johnson and strong line against No Deal.

Shabnam Nasimi: This diverse new Cabinet is a great achievement – let’s build on it

It sends a clear, positive signal to young people from migrant backgrounds, among whom our Party lags behind.

Full list of Cabinet appointments

A rolling list of all the senior members of the new Government. As we write, we have the Cabinet list plus those entitled to attend.

Iain Dale: This Cabinet is the most right-of-centre in modern times. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Plus: should Patel have come? Should Mordaunt have gone? And: my predictions. What I got right and wrong.