Twelve tests for the Pickles/Brady Conservative Party review

ConservativeHome’s proposals for Party reform, to avoid a repeat of the miserable snap election result.

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part three: What can be done to fix it?

After exposing the flaws in the Conservative campaign operation, we propose 12 reforms to help to avoid repeating such failings in future.

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. How and why the ground campaign failed.

Activists were asked to trust in a targeting analysis that proved to be based on flawed data and assumptions that were overturned by the manifesto.

Some Tory candidates are back on the list – but others face further hurdles

Some will not learn their fate until the end of September.

Syed Kamall: CCHQ does not understand how to campaign in London – we need a whole new approach

The Party apparatus may be in the capital, but it is not connected with the city’s residents. We must reach out and engage.

If more Cabinet members had won their seats from Labour, perhaps it would leak just a little bit less

Maybe it was ever thus, at least in modern times, but Tory-held suburban seats outside the South-East are under-represented at the top table.

CCHQ’s torture of Tory candidates continues

A few days ago, the candidates department accidentally led hundreds of would-be MPs to believe, wrongly, that they had been dropped from the list.

John Strafford: This election campaign was a disaster. The Party must be radically reformed to stop it ever happening again.

Activists were directed to seats which there was no chance of us winning. It is quite clear that CCHQ did not have a clue about what was happening.

Nadhim Zahawi: Our policies were right. But we didn’t sell them.

Despite the outcome, our manifesto was a step in the right direction, from which we must not retreat backwards.

Adam Wildman: Having more Conservative women MPs is brilliant. But we now need a “WorkingClass2Win”

Only one per cent of Tory MPs were once manual workers. For a party that considers itself to be the champion of the Just About Managing, this is not good enough.

Centralisation and chaos – inside the rush to select Conservative candidates in time for the election

The snap election sparked a frenzied effort to get people in place across the country. The process left some candidates and activists feeling trampled.

Exclusive: James Taghdissian is selected as the Conservative candidate for Exeter

Last time there was a Labour majority of 7,183.

Exclusive: Rachel Maclean is selected as the Conservative candidate for Redditch

Karen Lumley won a majority of 7,054 for the Conservatives last time.

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.