The new amnesty on Troubles prosecutions is not really about Northern Ireland at all

It arises from a campaign to protect ex-servicemen which has nothing to do with the particular circumstances of the Province.

Henry Hill: Scrapping EVEL makes muscular unionism more important than ever

One can’t plead both ‘our inter-connected United Kingdom’ against English Votes and ‘the spirit of devolution’ against Ukima.

What to prepare for if you want to become a Conservative MP

I don’t myself – but had a chance to squint this week at the hurdles one might have to jump to get on the Party’s candidates’ list.

With so much to get done, Johnson shouldn’t sideline the Downing Street legislation team

Policy drift following the collapse of the Union Unit shows the danger of Downing Street losing its grip on a process.

Leadbeater’s first test: will she rebuke Shah’s call to criminalise cartoons of Mohammed?

With a Batley teacher still in hiding, the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion equates drawings with public vandalism.

Two by-elections and one Health Secretary – losses see Johnson fall by 16 points in our Cabinet League Table

Javid comes straight in at fifth place; Williamson’s score is in freefall; and the podium positions are unchanged.

Our survey. Party members overwhelmingly back scrapping ‘all lockdown restrictions’ on July 19.

But with the Prime Minister digging in on testing and isolating in schools, can we be sure this will actually happen?

Henry Hill: Unionists’ court defeat shows scale of the challenge Johnson faces as ‘Minister for the Union’

Whilst the Prime Minister told the Commons he had not repealed part of the Act of Union, his lawyers argued otherwise in court.

The threat of Scottish independence. Is it business as usual? First, pre-election panic. Then the vote. And finally…back to complacency.

Some of the measures announced so far are popular, but there is frustration at the slow pace and lack of coherence.

Row over Hancock’s emails highlights the trade-offs involved in ‘Freedom of Information’

Like it or not, there is a trade-off between maximal accountability and effective government decision-making.

Henry Hill: Frost secures a stay of execution for British trade with Northern Ireland, but no sign of a pardon yet

An agreement to extend grace periods would avoid the Government having to do so unilaterally, as it did previously.

Did Brexit cause the dysfunction of the past five years – or merely expose deeper weaknesses?

The process of leaving brutally exposed some of the UK’s shortcomings. But a Remain vote would have hid them, not solved them.

Why Poots has departed and what it means

Successive Secretaries of State have preferred to bribe the local parties back to the table than to govern. This must change.

Is the Blue Wall around London in danger of cracking?

In the aftermath of the by-election, ConHome republishes Henry Hill’s post-May analysis of the threat to the Conservatives in the South.

Henry Hill: If Wales is last to unlock, will Welsh business pay the price for our disjointed approach to Covid-19?

When the rules are set in Cardiff Bay and the tab is picked up in London, there are lots of cracks to fall through.