Peter Saunders: The myth of social immobility. Those who champion meritocracy are pursuing something we’ve basically already got.

The second of two pieces on ConHome this week on social mobility. How much does it matter and is it in decline?

Toby Williams: Lockdown has presented huge challenges for the children of alcoholics. Here’s how we can help.

It’s already hard enough to be in this situation, without the avenues for respite being taken away too. Conservatives must do more.

Robert Halfon: Johnson’s coming Party Conference needs to show voters that we’re on their side

Plus: by stealth, under the cover of Covid-19, Starmer is changing the Labour Party to one based on social democracy, rather than red-blooded socialism.

Gary Porter: To level up, we need alumni networks for state schools

Our new initiative in South Holland will inspire children from disadvantaged backgrounds that they can succeed.

Damian Green: Here are our One Nation ideas for reviving post-Covid, post-Brexit Britain

In a world that changes as fast as this one, constant intellectual regeneration should be our goal. Our recovery papers are a contribution to that.

Phillipa Stroud: Coronavirus has hit those in poverty hardest. The Government must support employment, fast.

The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.

Peter Lampl: To build social justice and get the economy working, schools must open fully in September

The Education Endowment Foundation estimates that ten years of progress in closing the attainment gap has been reversed by school closures.

Robert Halfon: The Government was wise to give way to Rashford. Now let him head up the Social Mobility Commission.

Plus: vision from the top for left-behind pupils, a National Education Broadcasting Service, and Alan Turing summer schools.

Sam Robinson: Britain is a lot more socially mobile than you might assume

While Britain’s income floor has become a lot bouncier, its income ceiling remains sticky.

James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month

Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.

Eddie Hughes: Yes, let’s move CCHQ resources to the regions. But do so authentically.

If we really are becoming the Party of Blue Collar Conservatives, our Party must become the change that we want to see.

David Davis: How to keep the new working class voters we won last Thursday – and win even more

In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks.   It will be a battle between creativity and convention.

Robert Halfon: Under our new leader, we must prize social justice above social mobility

We must tackle causes of poverty, not symptoms: educational failure, worklessness, family breakdown, debt, addiction, disability, exposure to crime, poor housing.

Alan Mak: Conservatism 4.0 – We must ensure that no-one is left behind by the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The second article in a three-part series explaining why adapting to a society and economy shaped by technology is key.

Scott Mann: Why I am voting for Harper

He’s a respected, experienced former Chief Whip – without the baggage of having sat around the Cabinet table during the past three years.