Education, housing, the environment: May’s campaigning priorities. And there is an NHS row. But what about the economy?

The Government had next to no living standards message at the election. It needs one now – and to explain how it fits in with those three priorities.

Last June’s election has transformed the debate about capitalism. May must find a strategic response.

Tactical newspaper articles are necessary but insufficient. She should make a series of speeches to set out her stall and try to change the weather.

Johnson’s Trump initiative. Repulsive – but Right.

The brutal reality is that Britain needs the country the President governs – and so by extension needs him too.

The decision not to challenge the release of Worboys further erodes Tory credentials on law and order

Gauke should have fought and lost rather than not have fought at all. But the wider concern is that the “system” is on the side of the criminal rather than the victim.

Why are audiences breaking into applause after the new Churchill film?

He was a man of Empire – not a little Englander, but a Great Britainer. One might also say a Global Britainer, which returns one to Brexit.

Discuss.

A Conservative MP tweets that “there is a timidity and lack of ambition about Mrs May’s Government which means it constantly disappoints”.

The border is staying at Calais: another pillar of ‘Project Fear’ quietly crumbles

Yes, we’re going to have to pay for it. But hasn’t using Britain’s status as a net contributor to secure deals always been part of the plan?

Gyimah is not enough

His tour of universities raises memories of another – that of by Keith Joseph, whose hundreth birthday would have fallen this week. It needs a modern equivalent.

Henry Hill: May resists DUP calls for direct rule as Bradley calls for yet more talks

Also: Tories say data proves Sturgeon should abandon tax plans; Jones joins Scottish Conservatives to menace the Withdrawal Bill; and DUP may back boundary review.

Carillion. Don’t say that Jesse Norman didn’t warn us (in a manner of speaking)

That the company is a government customer isn’t the whole story. After all, few customers must manage the consequences of their supplier’s collapse.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May has a future as a teacher of economics for beginners

Sir Desmond Swayne stayed awake, and was greeted with a roar of appreciation.

Higher taxes. Social insurance. New Commissions. Reforming NI. Debate on health and social care gathers pace.

But the collapse of the Tory manifesto social care plan, plus the Government’s lack of a workable Commons majority, all but rule out radical change to the system.

State-funded Muslim schools. The elephant in the classroom.

The controversy over lifting the cap on new faith schools is not confined to Catholic ones. Hinds has a knotty problem to untangle.

Carillion’s collapse would be tough for any government – but for the Party of business it is twice as dangerous

The price of being thought business-minded is that it reflects particularly badly on Tory ministers when the private sector gets it wrong.

We wish the new Party Chairman well. But if you want to know what he’s up against, just follow the money.

In the short-term, throwing everything at target seats makes sense. Over the longer, it is a recipe for weak outreach, social media failure and falling membership.