Election sketch: Bolton West wants to talk about immigration

In this acutely marginal seat, Labour looks even more vulnerable than the Conservatives to attack by UKIP.

Owen Paterson MP: The cause of Abbott’s troubles – tough decisions, not hardline views

The right-wing British commentators who claim otherwise are wide of the mark.

Jonathan Isaby: Why every taxpayer should oppose plain packaging for cigarettes

This bad policy doesn’t just affect smokers or tobacco companies – it will hit all of us in the pocket.

Terry Barnes: Will Abbott’s political near-death experience change his style of government?

The Australian Prime Minister survived a rebellion last night – but now his relationship with his colleagues is fundamentally altered.

Is Australia about to dump ANOTHER Prime Minister?

A combination of sudden measures to fix the economy, bad party management, poor timing, Senate opposition and the spill system have put Tony Abbott in danger.

Iain Dale: Why the Prime Minister will take part in the TV election debates after all

Plus: Farage’s book an election expense? Don’t be daft. My election predictions. Dull Tory slogans. Lively Australian politicians. And: victims of MND.

Lord Green: Why a points based system for immigration control is a bad idea

It has worked in Australia but in a totally different context.

Terry Barnes: The further woes of the Speaker’s favourite official

Carole Mills is tangled up in a burqa ban – and a Select Committee report that it was misled about her knowledge of an Australian parliamentary controversy.

Peter Riddell: What would a minority government be like?

They are likely to be less stable than coalitions because of the lack of a majority. That does not prevent them enduring,

Lord Ashcroft: Happy Red Tape Repeal Day, Australia

50,000 pages of rules have been removed – including nearly 10,000 separate regulations and a thousand Acts of Parliament. An idea for the Conservative Manifesto?

WATCH: Tony Abbott on the 70th anniversary of the founding of Australia’s Liberal Party

“It has changed the current of Australian politics – and so much more. We have helped to build modern Australia.”

Terry Barnes: Carol Mills is a decent person who has been left by the Speaker in an impossible position

She is being hung out to dry by John Bercow’s determination both to get his own way and save his parliamentary skin.

Before promising tax cuts, repeat after me: The deficit hasn’t gone away

If we go into the next election with too much tax cut talk it will risk our reputation for fiscal responsibility.

Terry Barnes: Faced with a crisis, Tony Abbott becomes a statesman

Sometimes it takes a searing crisis for a political leader to reach beyond their political comfort zone.

Interview: Fox propounds his points-based immigration policy – and agrees it would mean a fall in family migration

The former Defence Secretary gives his view on quitting the EU, its appeasement of Putin, and the reshuffle – “what’s done is done”.