Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

Lewis Baston: The Scottish Conservatives – fragile, but enduring and adaptable. A history.

A further graft from the remnants of Labour and the LibDems might be the best way of preserving the Union and providing an alternative government to the SNP.

Paul Abbott: How Churchill can inspire us to take on Corbyn – and the rest of them

Looking at long lines of miserable British people awaiting one handout or another, he fired back: “The socialist dream is no longer Utopia, but Queue-topia!”

Lewis Baston: Do general election campaigns help to decide the results?

Most produce results that are more or less what a reader of opinion polls and other electoral data might have anticipated a few months in advance.