The Tory plan to wield Corbyn against Labour

CCHQ want to exploit this red dawn to inflict deep damage on the Labour brand that will long outlast the current leadership.

London Mayoral selection struck by technical problems – hundreds of party members risk not getting a vote

The troubled VoteSource database strikes again as CCHQ asks activists to manually check membership lists.

Party members’ VoteSource view. Those who have one say it’s an improvement – but are none the less dissatisfied

A clear majority in each case simply don’t have an opinion. We run this report today simply because it marries up with Mark Wallace’s exclusive above.

Party members in our survey: Split CCHQ in two – and ring-fence money for long-term campaigning

These findings send a clear message to the Feldman Review: let’s not throw everything at the target seats and keep nothing for building up our vote elsewhere.

Mike Watkinson deserves a medal for a textbook response to being Cricked

The Tory press officer responded far better to the Channel 4 correspondent’s pursuit than many a politician.

The Corbyn Factor visits our survey. It finds that Tory members should have more rights than registered supporters

Three-quarters of the former believe that the latter should not be entitled to vote in the coming Party leadership election.

The Feldman Review mulls federations for Associations and bursaries for candidates

A survey asks: “Do you agree with introducing bursaries to help people who might struggle with the financial cost of being a Parliamentary candidate?”

Paul Abbott: The Party has duties to us – and we have duties to the Party too

We need a bigger Conservative movement, and I believe we should build it using the only economic system that really works – private enterprise.

Please take our special Feldman Review and Party Reform survey

Should members and registered supporters have the same rights? What about city and county federations? Should the Party Chairman be elected? All this and much more.

Paul Abbott: Reforming Conservative Associations. Let’s be bold – while time is in our side

The Kennedy plan set out on this site could work. It would further professionalise our campaigning, while enhancing the local democracy that our Party depends on.

Martin Hislop: CCHQ must end its obsession with information control

The mayoral selection process has produced new heights of bureaucratic excess, to the extent that party officers cannot even locate their colleagues in other associations.

Paul Abbott: Selecting Parliamentary candidates. We need to get the process going now – while Labour is in chaos

50 “nominated campaigners” should be deployed immediately in Opposition-held seats, to build up local Conservative champions behind enemy lines.

Paul Abbott: Scrap VoteSource. Empower the digital team. Sync databases. How to maximise CCHQ’s use of IT.

All four teams used different systems. Sometimes these spoke with each other. But, most of the time – this being the Conservative Party – they didn’t.

Paul Abbott: Our Party’s membership system needs to be abolished and rebuilt for the modern age

Over two years in CCHQ I saw how a broken system hampers campaigning and alienates supporters. This must be stopped.

How the Party can now make the most of its London Mayoral selection

Labour’s Corbyn troubles open up new opportunities for next May’s contest. A bigger Open Primary than planned offers a means of taking them.