The emergency National Convention meeting is looming, and the early signs are bad for the May

Many Association Chairmen are consulting their members, whether through ballots or other means.

Chloe Westley: There’s a word for the “certain type of people” you brush off, Ms Rudd. Conservatives.

These are the people who give up their free time to knock on doors around the country, and take the heat for the Government’s failure to deliver Brexit.

Nicky Morgan: Party members are fed up with being sidelined. And six other lessons from Manchester.

There was a genuine sense of grievance that policy suggestions and campaigning ideas are never listened to.

Green, Fox, Brady, Morgan. And live-streaming Rees-Mogg. ConHome’s Party Conference programme.

We pick out five items from it which may be of special interest to our readers and others who will attend.

Twelve tests for the Pickles/Brady Conservative Party review

ConservativeHome’s proposals for Party reform, to avoid a repeat of the miserable snap election result.

An opportunity for McLoughlin to welcome 50,000 new Party members

The number of new members has surged since the EU referendum – and our columnist Andrew Kennedy has the low-down on who they are.

Who is safeguarding the Conservative Party’s referendum neutrality policy?

The case of a little-known organisation based out of an Association office raises some rather troubling questions.

Feldman Review decision postponed. Downing Street climbs down.

The Chairman’s letter promises “additional benefits to enhance the membership experience”. Wouldn’t it be most enhanced by members having a bigger say?

Five tests for the Feldman Review

It will propose some centralisation, and that isn’t always a bad thing. But Party members on the ground need something back in return.

Matthew Plummer: Why the coming boundary reforms spell the end of our local Associations

The pace of change between each election will leave obsolete the relatively stable arrangements that we know now.

Paul Abbott: Reforming Conservative Associations. Let’s be bold – while time is in our side

The Kennedy plan set out on this site could work. It would further professionalise our campaigning, while enhancing the local democracy that our Party depends on.

Iain Dale: And the politician my next fund-raiser will be for is…

Plus: The irresistible Andrew Kennedy. Labour’s Rochester & Strood failure. Where’s a) Mo Ansar? b) Helen Grant c) The Bow Group? In praise of Andrew Neil. And: Lots of bad language