Rob Sutton: Introducing the top 50 Conservative MPs on Twitter

Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.

Sooner or later, Conservative MPs will have to remaster the vanishing art of Just Saying No

An election that saw them returned to say yes to Brexit and boosterism leaves Johnson vulnerable to events and reality.

The schools debacle is a consequence not of the personal failings of Williamson, but of the structural flaws of this Government

We have a dominating centre and compliant Ministers. The Education Secretary was given his marching orders, and told to like them or lump them.

Alec Shelbrooke: Next year’s exam season should be postponed – to allow more catch-up time in schools

It would require the willingness of exam boards to adjust their timetables. But with the will to achieve this, it could be done.

The Moggcast: “Our relationship with China is currently very much in the hands of the Chinese”

He tells us about his views on Hong Kong, and how he balances his “absolute” loyalty to both the church and Government over re-openings for worship.

We need the Commons back urgently – and if that means a Virtual Parliament, then so be it.

The date at which lockdown should end is debatable.  That MPs and peers should be debating it is not.

Ben Gadsby: Yes, the tuition fee system is working. And, no, there aren’t too many young people in higher education.

Too often, discussions about the sector generate more heat than light – and the light falls in the wrong place. We can do better.

John Bald: My law of education – the more that is written down, the less is actually done

The paperwork mountain grows for Special Needs – yet children are still sent to schools that leave them suffering.

Three takeaways from yesterday’s select committee chairmanship elections

These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

Does Johnson have the guts to tackle the rigged housing market described by Halligan?

A new book explains why building land is prohibitively expensive.

John Bald: A new approach is needed to sort out the mess of special needs provision

A global approach to quite different challenges has failed. A long-term decline in specialised teaching skills must be reversed.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Black arts, FSBs and as they come to the last it’s still neck and neck

Jokes continue to be told, but it would be wrong to suggest the contest has been fought in a spirit of unwearying amity.

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.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Javid takes on the old school tie

Davidson introduced the Home Secretary, who does not yet shine as brightly as his talents should enable him to do.