Lord Ashcroft’s Conference Diary: Perhaps Johnson really is the British Trump. And voters like it.

And: Gove says MPs can sit at weekends to get a deal through. Plus: Brisk business at the bookstall – and the menace of the “offence archaeologists”.

Graham Brady: Let technical and vocational schools fulfil their potential by allowing them to select

Tailoring teaching to children’s needs and interests works in every type of education. Why restrict the benefits of selection?

We ask nicely. But what is this woe-plagued reshuffle designed to achieve?

Amidst the wreckage this morning, there are a few points of light. But that cackling noise you hear from Kensington is George Osborne laughing his head off.

The row over Toby Young’s appointment offers a preview of politics in the social media age

When a generation that grew up online starts seeking public office, it won’t just be journalists who have a trail of unguarded comments that anyone can find.

Iain Dale: When Ann Widdecombe slept next to me. And why I gave her a poke.

In the side, that is. Plus: First the Left came for Toby Young; later, they may come for you. And: North Korea could be the big story of the year.

A great swathe of Labour’s core vote will loathe the party’s Brexit and migration plans. Now Crosby must make them known.

Corbyn’s Michael Foot tribute act gives the Conservatives the potential to secure a landslide by winning over the patriotic working-class vote.

Ryan Bourne: Conservatives would be wrong to embrace the aim of reducing inequality

Rather, the problem they should seek to tackle is that of poverty – which can be done by a pro-market agenda.

The Conservative push for tactical votes

The LibDems have long squeezed votes from the two bigger parties. Labour has squeezed LibDem ones in the polls. Will the Conservatives now gain too?

Opening a free school is a political act

Pacifism among free school founders is misguided – they can not afford to be disdainful of the political battle

Jonathan Isaby: Do you value freedom? Join us in a celebration of free speech, free markets and free people

The Freedom Festival is a chance to speak your mind, and hear champions of our movement speak theirs.

Simon Richards: Come to the Freedom Festival in Bournemouth next month

It’ll be like the party conference of your dreams, but without a party label attached: as long as you value freedom, you’ll be welcome.

We need more social entrepreneurs as Tory MPs: Toby Young must do his duty

By Harry PhibbsFollow Harry on Twitter The author Toby Young wrote an amusing book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,… Read more »

Michael Gove visits the pioneering Free school in West London set up by Toby Young