Profile: Damian Hinds – liberal Catholic, social mobility wonk, and new Education Secretary

it is quite conceivable that the Left of the party, casting around for a leadership contest standard bearer, will decide that he fits the bill.

Interview: Kemi Badenoch – “I’m not really left-leaning on anything…I always lean right instinctively”

She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”

And now for 15 items of good news

May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.

Sunder Katwala: How ethnic minority voters cost May her majority

If the Conservatives had won 42 per cent from them too, our research projects that she would have won with a comfortable 42-seat majority.

ConservativeHome’s new monthly survey is out

We now have eleven runners and riders in our Next Tory Leader section…with another 15 candidates standing by. Watch this space.

Michael Tomlinson: The re-offending rate is horrific. Our prisons are not working.

There are sound, conservative reasons to take rehabilitation seriously.

Why the Government didn’t support the SNP’s version of the ‘Turing Bill’

Ministers were concerned that the Nationalists’ version granted pardons for acts which are still crimes.

The majority of ethnic minority Conservative MPs are backing Leave

Meanwhile, Leave campaigners are pitching targeted messages to voters from a non-EU background.

Chris Grayling MP: We have made great strides among minority communities – now we can go even further

From the many role models at senior levels to a boom in grassroots support, our Party is reaching groups whose core values are Conservative.

New funding to help combat election fraud in Tower Hamlets – and elsewhere

Sam Gyimah has been fighting the good fight.

A new model for the constitution. A new model for Conservative leadership.

Number 10’s exam crisis style of leadership has once again been found wanting – but, this time, on a matter so serious that it cannot be allowed to continue.

The reshuffle: evening summary

All in all, a good day for the Centre-Left of the Tory Party, lots of change at the Whips Office…and what the lobbies are bound to see as the demotion of housing.

On CNN, Sam Gyimah MP worries at US regulator’s language towards Standard Chartered

How can the Conservatives win ethnic voters? Sam Gyimah MP records a film for BBC Newsnight

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41 Tory MPs join call by Robert Halfon MP for OFT to investigate high petrol prices

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