Election sketch: Bolton West wants to talk about immigration

In this acutely marginal seat, Labour looks even more vulnerable than the Conservatives to attack by UKIP.

A fond farewell to William Hague

Hague’s leadership of the Conservative Party was hugely more significant than he’s given credit for.

The English vote has held up the Tories – but will that continue?

Meanwhile, Scotland is perhaps the most disruptive force in modern British electoral history.

Election sketch: Jackie Doyle-Price – not drowning but waving in Thurrock

In this marginal seat on the Thames estuary, Team Jackie take to an open-top bus in an attempt to foil UKIP and Labour, and Farage gains a Hitler moustache.

Election sketch: Amandeep Singh Bhogal, the Sikh Conservative who wants to end sectarian politics in Northern Ireland

On the day David Cameron visited Belfast, Bhogal tried to persuade people in Banbridge that it is possible to move beyond ancient quarrels.

Team2015 is more formidable, and traditional, than it looks

In which I go campaigning with Grant Shapps’s brainchild, which has mobilised thousands of activists who would probably not have joined their local associations.

This Government can’t get no satisfaction

Even with the economy on the up, approval ratings have remained stubbornly low.

Big Issue 1) The constitution – Cameron and Miliband must tell us how they plan to save the UK

The campaign is impoverished and the electorate insulted by the refusal of the main party leaders to talk about a new settlement for the United Kingdom.

Interview with Jesse Norman MP: “I don’t really believe in making political promises.”

Politics is “a noble calling”. And in praise of Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke and Louis Armstrong.

The Tories must not abandon independent schools

Gove’s drive to extend to the state sector the freedoms enjoyed by fee-paying schools should be extended to allow academic selection.

Lib Dem councillor in Rochford defects to the Conservatives

Cllr Lumley joins the Conservatives – to help defeat UKIP and their “cheap sound bites”.

Interview: Ken Clarke – “The Greeks have made it impossible, unless they come up with some brilliant solution, to stay in the Euro.”

“The Cameroons” are wrong to view Tony Blair as “the Master”. It was “a pity” to move Michael Gove, and the EU referendum will not heal Tory divisions on Europe.

Interview: It’s Ivatraz! Ivan Massow’s plan for a vast new prison on Boris Island

And other fun and serious ideas from the first declared candidate for the Conservative nomination for the London Mayoralty

Lord Ashcroft: Labour and the Conservatives are neck and neck in my latest poll

Plus the results of my focus groups in Brighton and Solihull, including: if each party leader were a car, what car would they be?

An open letter to the Party Chairman: Let members approve any coalition deal

After all, they deserve a vote – and they can be trusted with one too.