History demonstrates why a new pro-EU party would be doomed

Churchill saw a century ago that the existing party machines will always prove the stronger, and UKIP and the SDP have confirmed this.

Jack White: We offered young people diddly-squat at the last election – we must up our game

The Conservative Party must do better in terms of policy and communications. Let’s start at the National Convention elections.

Barely a third of Conservative MPs were elected before Cameron’s leadership

Such a generational shift in peacetime is remarkable, and strengthens the case for a member of a recent intake to succeed the Prime Minister.

Bernard Jenkin: Our Party must define its mission with a Statement of Values

A change in attitudes and atmosphere at CCHQ is the vital foundation for any lasting and effective reform.

Maintaining the Conservative Party in a competitive state is a means of preserving democracy itself

An American scholar shows how British Conservatives welcomed universal suffrage, while German Conservatives were terrified of it.

Francis Maude: To win, we must modernise all over again

Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.

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.

Alex Crowley: The Conservative Party in London must learn from Davidson’s success in Scotland

We face the prospect of extinction in our nation’s capital if we do not take steps to arrest a decline that has been underway for some years.

Exclusive: McLoughlin appoints Chief Executive and Vice Chairman for Campaigning at CCHQ

Sir Mick Davis and David Brownlow will be charged with a review to “further improve” CCHQ and the Conservative campaign machine.

Imtiaz Ameen: The Conservative Party needs to start solving its Muslim problem. Again.

So much of the good work done under David Cameron was undone by this election campaign. Things must change or a majority will stay beyond our reach.

Luke de Pulford: The Tories must urgently address their brand problem

Even in an age where institutional attachments run shallow, too many young people are coming to share a deep-seating dislike of our Party.

Richard Short: What I learnt from my campaigning tour of the constituencies

It is worth looking at where we were successful, and what went right, in the hope we can replicate that, and secure better success at the next general election.

Loudspeaker politicised reactions to tragedies must not be allowed to drown out democracy

Justified calls for a national government’s overthrow are usually confined to those in which there is a serious threat of tyranny or the breakdown of civil order.

Profile: George Osborne, who could have stayed in Westminster, and returned to the Cabinet. But who left, and is trying to destroy May.

The former Chancellor has taken to the role of newspaper editor, but some will see his attacks on the Prime Minister as unhelpful.

WATCH: Fallon explains that “we’re not in coalition with the DUP”

He says that while “they’re agreeing to support us on the big economic and security issues”, that “doesn’t mean we now agree with all of their views”.