James Frayne: Nine thousand jobs lost at Rolls Royce. The damage that the virus is wreaking on provincial Britain is terrible – and will last

It’s not only a matter of highly-skilled jobs for working class people. Firms like these gives cities like Derby a sense of immense civic pride.

Richard Holden: A call to CCHQ. Spare no effort to help us consolidate our breakthrough in the North East during next year’s elections.

I’ve noticed in my constituency that, to parts of the community, I am a disruption to the local natural order.

James Frayne: The Coronavirus will radically recharge our national debate about fairness and justice

The mass of the public will demand answers to questions that previously had relatively limited appea – such as: why the postcode lottery in healthcare?

Can Starmer surprise us?

He will have to be more than a kind of North London John Smith if he wants to do more than just profit from the Government’s misfortunes. 

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.

David Skelton: How Johnson can cement the Tory position in the North

The Government must spare no effort to deliver dignified work, up-to-date infrastructure, and state-of-the-art training to these long-neglected communities.

Lee Rowley: North East Derbyshire was a forerunner of this election victory. Here’s what we did to win again.

For my colleagues who’ve smashed through the Red Wall – pick those bricks up and build anew.

As of last week, the Tories are Britain’s working-class party

The Prime Minister’s victory is on the same scale as Thatcher’s, but of a different kind. The implications of that could be huge.

Ben Bradley: Voters tore down the Red Wall because they were sick of Labour talking down to them and holding them back

That doesn’t mean they are all suddenly hardcore Tories. For many we were the least-worst option. But we have an opportunity to win their trust.

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.

John O’Connell: In an age of socialist-lite spending policies, what has become of the low-tax Tory?

The second piece in our series this week about what the Conservative Manifesto should look like.

James Frayne: Voters would welcome a Brexit deal. But it might harm and not help the Conservatives with working class voters.

Would they actually think that, now Brexit’s done and immigration back under control, that they can return to their natural home in the Labour Party?

James Frayne: To win working-class voters, Conservatives must start talking tax

Rather than demanding capitalism-is-broken remedies, I have found strong support for measures they recognise will support their employers.

Rachel Wolf: In defence of Cameron

My local secondary schools were no-go areas and no one from my primary school went to one. That won’t be my children’s experience, and he can take a lot of credit.

James Frayne: Why a populist programme wouldn’t work for Johnson. Working class voters aren’t values votes.

Middle class hostility to the working class and lower middle class is common, while working class and lower middle class hostility is practically non-existent.