Columnists

Iain Dale: My end of term school report on the Cabinet. Grades below. Open with care.

Johnson, Sunak, Patel – and more. Do not write below the dotted line. Do not use corrective fluid. Unauthorised materials will be confiscated.

Henry Hill: Davies touts ‘devolution revolution’ as the Welsh Tories try to shield their unionist flank

Also: Johnson in Scotland to fight back against the SNP; Tory backbenchers set up new unionist research caucus; and more devolved woe in Ulster.

Ryan Bourne: The Right’s glory was its mastery of economic policy. Why has it given up even thinking about it?

Precisely what does Johnson think was wrong with the 2010-2018 deficit reduction agenda? Who knows? The Tories don’t have a clear economic story.

Daniel Hannan: Fewer are dying of the virus, thank goodness. But we are somehow more nervous about it now than we were in March.

Staying at home is, like anything else, habit-forming. Getting people to come out of lockdown is the hard part of the Government’s plan.

Luke Evans: While we all hope for a vaccine, we know that we will never return to pre-pandemic normal

Although we all have to be working for the best, we also have to be preparing for the worst.

James Frayne: Churchill – and why the conservative movement would win a culture war. But it would be unpleasant and divisive.

Voters will support a balanced narrative about Britain’s past in our schools, but they will want children to feel mostly pride in our past.

Radical: An open letter to Liz Truss. We urge you to see through your commitment to protect single sex spaces.

Making GRCs making GRCs available on demand would destabilise all manner of legal structures, from equal pay to sex discrimination law to criminal law.

Richard Holden: Three opportunities that open up for us in an Australian trade deal

There are special gains in luxury cars, migration and services – as Australia looks away from the Pacific and we stride in into the wider world.

David Gauke: Required next time. A fresh Tory leader who embodies modern, multi-racial Britain. Does that suggest anyone?

Maybe, just maybe, such a leader could take the Conservative Party in a different direction.

Iain Dale: Farron’s strange friends here and Hammond’s bloody ones abroad

Plus: Why the BBC must keep Neil. Why I’m leaving Lloyds. And: three hours with the LibDem leadership candidates.

Henry Hill: Reserving control of ‘level playing field’ provisions to Westminster should be just the first step

The May Government set a time-bomb under the Union when it agreed to the mass devolution of ex-EU powers. Ministers must think again.

Garvan Walshe: Erdogan has failed his country – and turning the Hagia Sophia into a mosque won’t put food back on Turkey’s tables

Narrow victories and a poor response to the Covid-19 crisis almost certainly indicate it’s time for Turkey’s leader to bow out.