James Frayne: The Conservatives need to attack Labour this autumn. Here are five ways of doing so.

With the stakes as high as they are, the Tories need to throw the kitchen sink at the Opposition to drag themselves ahead in the polls.

Alex Morton: Identity politics is wrong – and bad for Tories, too. So if May is staking a revival on it, her difficulties will deepen.

The idea that all groups should have the same outcomes is just an update of the old socialist idea of equality of outcome – ignoring the choices that individuals make.

Andrew Selous: Relationships education needs to tackle family breakdown

The third piece in a five-part series on ConHome on a new Manifesto to Strengthen Families, which is being launched in Parliament this week.

Rob Halfon: Is it time to get rid of charitable status for private schools?

There are better ways to spend money on education than on tax breaks for very expensive profit-making institutions.

Nicky Morgan: Let’s have fewer rush-jobs like women-only carriages, and more serious, considered policy-making

Politics often expects a quick answer. But the quick answer often isn’t the best. From education to Brexit, complex questions deserve proper thought.

John Blake: This week, A-levels. Next, GCSEs. Now we need to know what the next Tory education reforms will be.

It should focus on improving vocational training for people who are not going to university – and on getting primary as well as secondary education right.

How Hammond could raise his ratings

The Chancellor has not always been well treated by his neighbour, and deserves support over public spending. But he has mishandled his internal position over Brexit.

Alex Morton: A modest proposal. Quotas to help another disadvantaged minority – Conservatives.

We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.

James Scales: Technical education – still a pale shadow of its academic cousin

There is not enough cross-pollination between the education sector and employers. And careers advice must be dramatically improved

Sophie Sandor: You want better state schools? Then let them make a profit.

If everyone had the opportunity to attend a private school then, by definition, they couldn’t be elite.

Catholic schools, transgendered people – and a missing Conservative equalities policy

Over time, proposals have either been denounced as politically correct nonsense, or embraced with an enthusiastic “me, too”-ism. Neither approach is exactly rigorous.

Julian Brazier: Mass immigration helps to drive our housing crisis. No wonder young people are angry – as I know to my cost.

An unholy alliance of vested commercial interests on the one hand, and left-leaning commentators on the other, have poisoned the well of the debate on migration.

Daniel Downes: The Conservatives must share the blame for losing the youth vote

A widely-circulated article putting it all down to biased teachers doesn’t ring true.

Mark Lehain: Cutting the Free School programme would be short-sighted, damaging to standards, and un-Conservative

Free schools are changing lives for the better, and have proved popular despite the early naysaying. Greening must shut down talk of scrapping the policy.

Prospects for the economy 2) Andy Silvester: The fundamentals are strong. But confidence is in shorter supply.

Doomsday predictions remain overblown, but the real, specific concerns of business are worth listening to nonetheless.