Phil Taylor: In its bid for bleakness, Labour’s broadcast is both glib and deceptive

Setting flimsy evidence and distorted statistics to a depressing soundtrack does nothing for their credibility.

Election 2017: Karen Lumley and Andrew Turner stand down. Here’s the list of other MPs also doing so to date.

A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.

Next week’s council elections: The Conservative / Labour battlegrounds – Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire

Will Andy Street adorn the front pages with a broad grin on his face, the newly-elected Conservative West Midlands Mayor?

Greg Taylor: King in the North – how Andy Burnham Could Put the Kybosh on the Tory Northern Revival.

His meat and potatoes family-values message plays well.

Will Labour apologise for Manchester’s rubbish deal?

A PFI contract fixing a cost to dispose of residual waste that was double the market rates.

Richard Short: We Tories must renew our efforts to win the industrial north

Corbyn might lock Labour out of power at Westminster, but Momentum could still end up wielding real power in local government.

Labour’s pro-EU campaign was sputtering from the start – now the wheels are coming off

Labour MPs are beginning to worry that they have lost the ear of their own core vote.

The impact of the new city and regional mayors could be huge – but hardly anyone has noticed

While most eyes are on Labour’s ideological battles or Tory referendum struggles, devolution is changing the nature of government and politics.

Richard Short: Never give up on the Conservative coalfield challenge

Spencer Pitfield’s by-election candidacy in Sheffield and my own experience in Leigh help demonstrate that nowhere should be out of bounds for us.

Nick Timothy: Labour’s crisis is not about Corbyn – it’s existential

Relatively moderate members of the Opposition know that they disagree with the Hard Left, but they have no idea what to do in response.

The fallout from Corbyn’s Trident comments starts to contaminate the Labour Party

His Shadow Defence Secretary, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary publicly disagree with him.

Nicky Morgan MP: Our vision for gender equality – and helping women to fulfil their potential

It is the Conservative Party which produced the first ever female MP, the first lesbian leader in Ruth Davidson and the first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher.

Mike Freer MP: Labour’s upper echelons can now be considered to be overwhelmingly hostile to Britain’s Jewish community

Corbyn’s election has all at once overtly politicised and alienated an entire community that has long been an integral part of British society.

Iain Dale: Syrian Refugees – here’s what a true Compassionate Conservative would do

I’m not embarrassed to say that when I saw that picture of the four year old boy who drowned and was washed up on a Turkish beach I shed a tear.

Nick Gibb MP: While we improve key GCSEs, Labour’s leadership candidates have nothing to say about standards

This week, hundreds of thousands of Year 10 pupils will start being taught the new and more rigorous English and maths qualification.