Dave Dempsey: What can Scottish Conservative councillors look forward to in May’s local elections?

We should make some gains in rural areas. Labour is no longer a reliably unionist party – which is gradually being noticed by the voters.

Profile: Michael Gove – denied a great office of state once again. But given work on which Johnson’s future now depends.

Part of the charm of the new Housing Secretary is that one never quite knows what he is going to do next.

Laura Sandys: The six key shifts we need for a fairer society and greener future

Here’s how we combine climate action and nature regeneration with fairness and levelling up.

Interview with Douglas Ross: Sturgeon is not in the clear, and is part of a “conspiracy against getting out the truth”

The Scottish Conservative leader calls for devolution from Holyrood to local councils, and says he is looking forward to campaigning with Boris Johnson.

The red white and blue archipelago: how localism can sustain the Union.

The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.

Henry Hill: The beacons are lit! Aberdeen calls for aid, and London must answer

An embattled Scottish local authority is trying to bypass Holyrood’s stranglehold and appeal to the city’s other government. Time for the Union to prove itself.

Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department

Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.

The life of Gove, Cameron’s Jeeves and Johnson’s stooge

Owen Bennett sets out the known facts about an astonishing Tory.

Jeremy Hutton: There are 6,047 empty council-owned commercial properties in the UK – what a shocking waste

Providing security, insurance, maintenance and renovation of these vacant properties costs £74 million a year. Many could be converted into housing.

Thomas Kerr: In Glasgow, the SNP is punishing business

The City will see increased parking charges across the city as well as higher Council Tax. Road maintenance is neglected, yet £800,000 a year is spent on PR.

Chris Grayling: Upgraded roads. New trains. A record modernisation programme. Putting straight our record on transport and the North.

We are waiting for Labour to deliver their proposals. Because this should be too important an issue to become a political football.

Struggle to form coalitions of chaos in Scottish town halls

Labour’s deal with the LibDems to introduce STV to Scotland’s local elections has led to instability, confusion and a bad deal for the taxpayer.

Coalition deal means Conservatives take charge in Nottinghamshire

The Party will also be sharing power in a number of Scottish local authorities.

Sunder Katwala: There are big choices ahead on immigration – we need a national conversation about what to do

To restore trust on the issue requires both sides to balance the pressures and gains of immigration.

Carolyn Fairbairn: If the Government gets its Industrial Strategy right, we can help make the economy stronger and fairer

We need sectoral centres of excellence that strengthen our economy, create higher wage jobs and help us trade across the globe.