Blair flaps at the stable door. But the horse runs free.

It was the former Prime Minister himself who presided over the drawing up of the Article 50 process from which there is no known means of resiling.

Chloe Smith: My experience as a disabled person of Access to Work. What it does right. And how it could do better.

Making the scheme more accessible and user-friendly would help, as would supporting unpaid internships, work experience placements and volunteering.

Has the ‘jobs miracle’ lost its electoral appeal?

The employment and unemployment rates are each at the best levels since the 1970s. But do voters care?

John Baron: It’s time to embrace the One-Nation message – and win

As possibly the only Brexiteer in the Parliamentary Party’s One Nation group, I am also only too aware that this message must be accompanied by a successful EU negotiation.

We should adapt to the future of work, not resist it

From the gig economy to mind-boosting drugs, the latest iteration of the ‘traditional economy’ is under pressure.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to take back control of immigration

The second article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

James Frayne: Five bits of advice that May’s new Communications Director should give her

“We’re badly trailing in the polls. Corbyn’s up and you’re down. You hired me to get things done and tell you how I see it. Here goes.”

The great Conservative student panic

The next manifesto might propose breaking the link between student maintenance costs and parental income by introducing a universal loan.

Christopher Howarth: On immigration, we need no implementation, no transition post-Brexit. Just an immediate start in cutting numbers.

Big business has become too reliant on the drug of cheap labour from abroad. It should start preparing to kick the habit now.

Robert Halfon: Modernisation must not mean choosing between workers and metropolitan professionals

We must design a conservatism that appeals to both.

Garvan Walshe: The Taylor review is a distraction. The real problem facing Britain is that our Welfare State is bust.

Uncomfortable though it is to admit, we run our public finances like a Ponzi scheme. The only way out of this mess is to improve our terrible productivity.

Robert Halfon: Being a Workers Party means being a party for lower taxes too

We should put the proceeds in a special Redistribution Fund to spend either on public services, or on poorer communities, or cutting taxes for the lower paid.

Scott Kelly: For jobs and prosperity, young people need better technical eduction, not more higher education

The opportunity for young people to gain high-level work related skills would also help bridge the social divide between those who have a degree and those who do not.

David Goodhart: It’s time to listen to mainstream Britain, and defend a mother’s right to stay at home for longer

There is no need to keep fighting the last equality war – our society should allow women to choose pure egalitarianism or more traditional gender roles.

We asked for Grown-Up Government. Now we’ve got it.

May’s manifesto is real politics – that’s to say, a serious attempt to prepare Britain for the post-Brexit challenges of the future.