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Nick Hargrave: The Conservative split is coming. Indeed, it is already here. Unless…

Perhaps, against all the odds, we will find a way of muddling through and preserve our broad church for a time after the era of Brexit has passed.

Michael Tomlinson: I voted Leave. But as MPs leave Westminster this summer, we must look wider than the EU debate – and deliver social justice for Britain.

We must embrace such issues as poverty, families, prisons and young people.

Chris Skidmore: How the Conservative Party’s new Policy Commission will work

Five task forces cover energising our economy, transforming our public services, building a fairer society, sustaining our democracy and shaping a Global Britain.

Paul Maginnis: My manifesto for boosting social mobility

It has fascinated me since growing up in a single parent family on the outskirts of Belfast – before attending the lowest-performing secondary school in Northern Ireland.

John Bald: Social mobility and education’s Angry Brigade

Rather than allowing the greatest opportunity for each individual to excel, the educational establishment want to hold them back – in the interests of “levelling attainment”.

Kevan Collins: Gathering evidence of what techniques work in the classroom should be welcomed

Setting or streaming tends to benefit high-attaining pupils, but this can be to the detriment of lower-attaining learners.

Ryan Henson: How to improve opportunities for white working-class boys – and get more on the Tory benches too

Research shows that investment in the early years of a child’s life is the most effective way to improve his or her long-term life chances.

Damian Hinds: Social mobility. When narrowing the gap, the earlier you start the better

Among seven-year-olds in 2012, 24 per cent of free school meal recipients did not reach the expected level in reading, versus 10 per cent of their better off peers.

Nicky Morgan: Threats, intimidation, violence, and trolling. Something is rotten in the state of our democracy.

Those who turn a blind eye to MPs being labelled mutineers are playing with a fire which will eventually consume them too.

Nicky Morgan: Why this social mobility setback? Because the best brains in the Government are fixated on Brexit.

Too little attention is focused on the reasons why where you are born and your family background still matter far too much in modern Britain.

Henry Smith: We must not lose momentum on supporting early years development

We need to train more teachers if the Government is to ensure that every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Ideas for the Budget 3) Fiona Bruce: It should start to reduce the huge costs of family breakdown

The Chancellor should commit to a Family Services Transformation Fund of £100 million over four years to help relationship support and post-separation support.