Iain Dale: How I did not become May’s new Director of Communications

Guido Fawkes, Tom Newton-Dunn and the Evening Standard diary banded together to suggest that I was about to do a far, far better thing than I have ever done…

Sunder Katwala: Will the Conservatives have more ethnic minority MPs than Labour after this election?

The Tories are making gradual rather than spectacular progress on ethnic diversity – as the party’s class of 2017 looks set to prove.

Selections today in Redditch and Exeter

Plus: we profile the latest tranche of newly selected candidates.

Exclusive: Afolami selected as Conservative candidate for Hitchin and Harpenden

He clinched victory in the second round of voting.

Exclusive: We bust the Party ban on making known the names on the Hitchin and Harpenden shortlist. The latest selections news.

Plus: Eleven candidates selected elsewhere, including Gillian Keegan in Chichester and Kemi Badenoch in Saffron Walden.

A round-up of recent parliamentary candidate selections

From Aberdeen to Ealing, Torfaen to Norfolk, associations are selecting their candidates for 2015.