John Holdich: Victory in Peterborough came with a positive message

We fought on local issues highlighting the improvements we are delivering. Labour complained about “austerity” – but failed to offer a coherent alternative.

Simon Cook: Our campaign to win in Canterbury starts today

The General Election was a shock. We are up for a marathon effort for the Council elections next year.

Kris Wilson: The lessons from Nuneaton and Bedworth

It is not enough to state what you oppose from the ruling Labour Group. You have to have a policy platform to offer to residents as an alternative to actively vote for.

How Barnet was won

It wasn’t just about antisemitism. The Conservatives pledged to maintain weekly bin collections. Labour did not.

The Conservative campaign machine has upped its game – but the loss of activists’ trust in the central Party is taking time to repair

Some local campaigns printed off full duplicates of their canvassing data, in case CCHQ repeated last year’s trick of selectively turning off VoteSource.

Theresa May: Our practical politics is closer to voters than the partisan approach that increasingly consumes the left

As Leader of the Conservative Party, I want to thank each and every one of you for all your hard work during the local elections.

Howard Flight: Local elections should be about local government

All teenagers should be taught at school about the structure of the British constitution – this would help improve the engagement and basis of knowledge for local government elections.

Brandon Lewis: Thank you, Conservative members. Because of you, we did well in these elections. But this is just the start.

I want to commend every single one of you that stood for council or campaigned in any way in this poll.

Claire Ainsley: There is a new working class, with different political concerns and motivations from the old

Understanding what makes these voters tick could be key to the outcome of the next election. No party can afford to ignore them.

Iain Dale: The good plain old-fashioned party poster – driven out of politics by thuggery and fear

Plus: Local elections – Jacqui Smith and I step in where the BBC won’t go. And: my advice to Rudd? KBO – as Churchill used to put it.

Brandon Lewis: In the final week before polling day, let’s shout about our record

These local elections will make a big difference to people’s lives. Join me on the campaign trail.

Matt Hartley: Our fight for democracy in Greenwich

Labour councillors see their chance to extinguish the only opposition voices left in the Council chamber, so they can continue their waste of taxpayers money, blame-shifting and failure to listen to residents unchecked.

We advised scepticism about the Brexit conspiracy theories – and now The Observer is ‘clarifying’ its allegations

Wishful thinking is a risky thing to indulge – it can lead people not to ask sufficiently tough questions to test the things that they are told.

Binita Mehta-Parmar: The divisive and intolerant messages used on a Tory leaflet in Havering harm our society and our Party

Such messages have more in common with the race controversies of 50 years ago than with the modern Conservative Party.

LISTEN: Wallace and McGregor on the importance and pitfalls of data-driven political campaigning

ConservativeHome’s Executive Editor and Barack Obama’s former digital guru discuss the ethics and practicalities of targeted campaigning, on the Week in Westminster.