WATCH: Cameron – “Let’s do more to back the nation’s families”

The Prime Minister on his homes, education & work speech today – and more opportunities.

Charlotte Pickles: The Government should change tack on welfare reform

Savings can be found – but let’s do so thoughtfully and compassionately, not simply as a display of machismo.

Henry Hill: Osborne condemns Ulster’s bid to breach spending limits

Also: SNP bid for Brexit veto rejected; Burnham and Kendall take their cases to Wales; and the Commons rejects full fiscal autonomy for Scotland.

Henry Hill: Villiers backs DUP ‘phantom budget’ as Ulster crisis drags on

Also: Jones allies with Sturgeon on EU; SNP set to storm Scottish elections; opposition grows to Welsh e-cig ban; and SDLP leader to resign Stormont seat.

Foges voices growing Tory dissatisfaction with the “bedroom tax”

The Prime Minister’s former speechwriter is far from the only one who worries the policy isn’t working well in practice.

Lord Flight: What must be done now that we’ve won

The current entrepreneurial spirit and endeavour are the strongest I have experienced in my career.

Henry Hill: Outlook bleak for Stormont as talks collapse

Also: ‘Self-financing’ Yes campaign bankrolled by the SNP; and Welsh Labour minister uninterested in ‘English Labour’ leadership contest.

Interview: Priti Patel, Employment Minister, makes the case for hard work and free childcare

She knows about work, and is unembarrassed to talk about it, because her family arrived from Uganda with nothing.

WATCH: Patel explains the Government’s childcare policy

“This is supporting individuals that choose to go out to work, and to help them with the difficult and high costs of childcare.”

Henry Hill: Northern Ireland Assembly back to the brink over welfare reform

Also: Welsh Assembly in revolt over plans to increase members’ pay; and Carmichael at risk of recall for leaking Sturgeon’s Tory sympathies.

Reasons to be Tory 14) Sheridan Westlake. And a bunch of other people you’ve probably never heard of.

On polling day, we honour the unknown heroes of this government – the Special Advisers, without whom little of what has been done would have been done.

Dominic Raab: Let’s not throw away this chance to build an Opportunity Society

The only vision of the fair society that strengthens, rather than saps, our economic competitiveness is the meritocratic kind that boosts social mobility.

An American reminder about simply throwing money – or condemnation – at social problems

It is quite right for us to preach the virtues of personal responsibility, but only if we foster the conditions within which virtue is nurtured.

Five reasons Labour can’t be trusted on welfare

Having built the benefits trap, they have fought every reform required to dismantle it.

Iain Dale: The Tory election campaign. Where oh where is Boris?

Plus: Tories – too vague. UKIP – too specific. LibDems: what are they for? Why the polls could all be wrong. And: I win an award, and am baffled.