Phillip Lee: Dear Sophie – don’t quit the Conservative Party, stay and fight against Brextremism

The former Justice Minister writes an open letter to a young activist, urging her to reconsider her defection to the Liberal Democrats.

The Tory Left: not always Out, not necessarily Loud, but definitely Proud – and a growing force

A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.

Profile: Matt Hancock, the Osborne acolyte who managed to survive and prosper

This ambitious 39-year-old is grappling valiantly with the Leveson problem, and no one does a better digital transformation.

Profile: Enoch Powell. Many politicians rose higher. Few made a bigger impact – or still do.

He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.

Dan Pitt: Green politics can be deeply Tory – in its sense of conservation, piety, and obligation to those living and dead

Part of settling down and marking time, as Roger Scruton would say, is protecting our environment. Doing so is an unchosen obligation upon us.

Profile: The Jews in Britain

By inflicting such pain, Corbyn has compelled a discussion. But the Jewish contribution to Britain should not be reduced to mere political calculation.

Rahima Khan: Why I’m Running for Mayor of Newham

Conservatives have a proud record of social reform. I want to break down the barriers to people escaping poverty.

Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic

Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.

What is a Conservative? Answers to Soubry on a postcard, please.

P.S: Only one Tory Prime Minister in recent years was “taken down” by Tory MPs. Clue: it was neither Major nor Cameron.

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

Spreadsheet Phil must become Storyteller Phil – if his Budget is to succeed where the Tory conference failed

The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.

Harris defends the deal Chamberlain struck with Hitler at Munich

His new thriller is readable, but lets the British Prime Minister and Establishment of 1938 off far too lightly.

Reconstructing May 1) She won’t win the battle for the future if Corbyn defines the battles of the past.

The Prime Minister has a long story of progressive toryism to tell. Moral authority must not be conceded to Labour.

Morgan’s new book. Character must once again be taught in schools.

She makes this case in her first publication, but is far too anxious never to cause anyone in the educational establishment any offence.

Lewis Baston: Disraeli’s “leap in the dark” towards modern democracy. 150 years on from the 1867 Reform Act.

Two cheers for a measure that, though mostly about managing, dividing and taming popular opinion, remains a reforming landmark.