Gerald Howarth: To ensure post-Brexit success, the Government must bolster Britain’s military power

Furthermore, increasing global tensions make improving our defence capabilities essential.

Gareth Lyon: Rushmoor has reinvigorated its old town twinning approach to business and economic development.

Building on our shared history and values, whilst retaining a cultural focus, should serve as a model for how towns across Britain can thrive in the future.

Gareth Lyon: Democratising Conservative policy – an open source revolution is underway

The Conservative Policy Forum should set up permanent subject groups in areas of policy which matter to our members.

Gareth Lyon: How we held the line in Rushmoor

We have built up a rapport with the Nepalese community. The key planks of their culture are profoundly Conservative.

Gareth Lyon: In Aldershot and North Hampshire, voters have got more receptive. Why? Because Brexit’s out of the news.

So could the Government please try to keep it that way until the local elections are done and dusted next week?

Leo Docherty: No other country allows soldiers doing their duty to face perverse legal pursuit

The armed forces do not wish to be above the law. The Human Rights Act has had unforeseen consequences, which have caused injustice.

Fewer women. The same ethnic minority share. More people educated at state schools. The Tory intake of 2017.

On the usual form of general elections, it shouldn’t be there at all – and is more shaped by the Party’s leadership than any of its predecessors.

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. How and why the ground campaign failed.

Activists were asked to trust in a targeting analysis that proved to be based on flawed data and assumptions that were overturned by the manifesto.

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Ford is selected in Chelmsford. Bennett withdraws from Saffron Walden. Latest candidate selection news.

All the latest news of shortlists and selections from right across the country.

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

Exclusive: The third candidate shortlisted in Aldershot is Chris Brannigan

The former Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards fought in Iraq, and is now the Prime Minister’s outreach director.

Exclusive. Aldershot, Chichester and Chester shortlist details. The man up against Farron. Latest selection news.

All the latest candidate selections, shortlists in key marginals and details of tonight’s contests.

Aldershot Conservatives threaten revolt over CCHQ’s refusal to offer them Hannan as a candidate

The Association told CCHQ they wanted him, but the central party declined to put him on the shortlist. Ping-pong could ensue.