Neil Clarke and Mark Pawsey: In praise of district councils

Brexit shows that we ignore local identity and what matters most to local communities at our peril.

Hammond falls 20 points and five places in our Cabinet League Table

The drop is best explained by the Chancellor’s well-reported stress on a Brexit settlement as close to single market membership as can be found.

May decisions for autumn. 1) What’s to be done about the deficit?

The Prime Minister and Hammond must choose between risks.

Lower energy bills. New homes. More (and better schools). Less low-skilled migration. The tests that May’s social reform must pass.

The new Government can’t realistically aim to target its programme on everyone. To govern is to choose.

The last closed shop must end if we’re to get the best out of Brexit

The civil service should advertise vacancies to all comers.

Build, build, build with Javid

The new Communities Secretary sees the construction of more homes as his priority. It is a daunting political mission.

From Project Fear to Project Reassurance

Funding for EU programmes in the UK will be maintained until 2020 – just as Vote Leave promised.

A Conservative Prime Minister tops our Cabinet League Table for the first time

Our Party member readers give the new top team an emphatic vote of confidence.

The first test of May’s new industrial strategy – and a task for Clark

The sale of ARM Holdings to Softbank is a curtain-raiser for May’s new plan – over which he has charge.

Andrew Laird: We must ensure that Brexit won’t distract from public service reform

The new Prime Minister has acted quickly to ensure that crucial work can proceed.

May – a Joe Chamberlain in kitten heels? Who will serve in her interventionist Cabinet (and deliver Brexit)?

Hammond, Fox, Javid. How will a generation of politicians raised under Thatcher adapt to the new Prime Minister’s desire for an industrial strategy?

If May can convince on Brexit, she’ll win. If she doesn’t, she could lose.

Her camp wants to move on from the subject. Quite right. But she will find it hard to do so until she has put doubts about her commitment to rest.

Fox’s authentic appeal. Gove’s turbulent genius. Leadsom’s fresh start. Which Brexiteer should face May in the final?

An awesome responsibility will greet the eventual winner. The new Prime Minister must rise to the greatest national challenge since that which confronted Churchill.

Interview. Crabb on his “party and national unity candidacy”. And why we need a One Nation Government that gets on with Brexit.

“I think that I’m somebody with a strong grasp of some of the social and economic divisions in our country and with a sense of direction for the future.”

Stephen Crabb’s Tory leadership campaign launch speech: full text

“And the blend of qualities I bring are exactly those that are needed if we are to get through the difficult circumstances we are in: resilience, optimism, humility, strength.”