Nick Hargrave: We need better political leaders. Here’s how to go about getting them.

It’s good for MPs to do some work outside Westminster. This will not be a quick win in the current political climate, though. So in the interim, here are some suggestions.

Nick Hargrave: The Conservatives should be thinking ahead about a future border poll in Northern Ireland

Ireland has in recent years moved from a restrictive semi-theocratic state to a more relaxed definition of Irishness. And then there is Brexit…

Nick Hargrave: Cameron’s modernisation was necessary then. And an updated version is necessary now.

When you’re worried about your child’s school, politicians look remote when they sound more interested in acronym bingo on whether we should look more like Canada or Norway.

Nick Hargrave: Rapturously received – and strategically flawed. How May’s first Tory conference speeches have come back to haunt her.

She unwittingly legitimised unrealistic Brexit expectations and Corbyn’s economic argument.

Nick Hargrave: Yes, I compiled an attack dossier on Johnson. But at best, there’s a real purpose to opposition research.

It works best when painting a substantive contrast on issues that voters care about. And here are four strategic choices for the Conservatives.

Nick Hargrave: The economic consequences of No Deal might only be temporary. But the political ones would dwarf Black Wednesday.

Even the near threat of such an outcome could outscale 16th September 1992 many times over in terms of setting political perceptions.

Nick Hargrave: A Conservative split is inevitable – the question is how to manage and minimise it

The tension can be seen in the way the Prime Minister’s sensible effort at Chequers clashes with the deeply-seated values of many in the Party’s grassroots.