“Conservatives have a proud record of promoting gender equality… we call on you to explain how you will build on this record”

The Conservative Women in Parliament Group’s letter to all the candidates in the leadership election.

Appointments 6) Foster mans the barricades at Wales, the Cabinet Office, and the Whips Office

He fills the roles vacated by Nigel Adams, and rounds out Theresa May’s latest bid to fill out at least the higher ranks of her Government.

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

The first department to need boosting post-March. The Treasury? Business? Transport? No: Northern Ireland.

The challenge to “our precious union” will be as much constitutional as economic – Deal, No Brexit…or No Deal especially.

Mordaunt: Let’s champion “the invisible women who keep…our nation going.” Her women’s suffrage centenary speech: full text

“There’s a lot of focus on women in boardrooms…But this is not the place where business is being re-imagined.”

Tatchell defends anti-abortion protests – and tells how he got Cameron and Johnson to support same-sex marriage

The veteran LGBT campaigner says the former Prime Minister’s aides “were terrified I might try and kiss him, or superglue myself to the Cabinet table”.

The shuffle. May’s women gap.

It is hard to appoint more women to Cabinet when there are few senior women to promote. We count only four at Minister of State level.

Iain Dale: Did the Chief Whip knife Jones – and other pro-Leave Ministers – in this reshuffle?

Plus: Let’s have no sympathy for Farron. He didn’t give straight answers to straight questions, and is thus the cause of his own downfall.

Iain Dale: There must be a reckoning for the Electoral Commission after the election

Plus: UKIP abandons the field against Remain Tories. A bike-riding Minister isn’t canvassing. And: Michael Crick should apologise.

Battlegrounds Revisited 4) East of England

A handful of gains from the Liberal Democrats do little to disguise a total stalemate between Labour and the Tories in this region.

Guy Opperman MP and Baroness Anne Jenkin: The new Conservative women MPs – selected on merit, slaying the big beasts

From advice and mentoring to funding and campaign support, Women2Win has helped female candidates realise their potential.

The Election Battleground 4) East of England

The fourth in our series investigates the East of England, where the minor parties are making their presence felt in a traditional Tory-Labour front.

From Reggie to Dessie: My Pale, Male and Stale plan to interview prospective leadership candidates

Of course our efforts at Rochester weren’t helped by the glitches in the new CCHQ computer “Darth Vader”.

Binita Mehta: Young people care about politics. Politicians need to care about them.

As a start, we’re raising money for a new app – called ‘Ask Amy’ – that aims to guide young voters through the political world.