Chris Bullivant: If free market and social conservatives find common ground, they could be unstoppable

The schism between between Tory Eurosceptics and Europhiles has been overcome; now another divide must be healed.

Rachel Wolf: My top tip for Labour leadership candidates – parties can’t win everywhere, and shouldn’t try

Try to please everyone and you end up pleasing nobody. Even Lisa Nandy, who seems more alert than most of her rivals, has fallen into this trap.

Robert Halfon: Only the paranoid survive – especially in the world of Conservative politics

I have lost count as to how many Tories I have recently met who assume that we will be in power for the next ten to fifteen years. That worries me.

Alex Morton: Johnson’s electoral success rests on helping people move from renting to owning their home

Housing played a small role in the 2019 election, but the first piece in a new mini-series notes that home ownership is the key driver of voter behaviour.

Andy Maciver: Johnson must change the Scottish Conservatives’ policy on a second independence referendum

He will be the Prime Minister who will either lose Scotland, or kill nationalism. There is no longer any in-between option.

The Conservatives must resist any temptation to get greedy in which seats they target

At the last election strong early poll leads seduced them into shifting resources from marginals into far more hostile territory, with disastrous results.

Sunder Katwala: Childcare, not Kashmir. Neither Narendra Modi nor Imran Khan are candidates in this election.

Treat claims of a communalist election with suspicion. The evidence suggests that ethnic minority voters prioritise domestic issues over foreign policy ones.

Jeremy Hunt: Progressive Conservatives have no cause for concern – this is not a pact with Farage

There has been no agreement between the two parties. And the whole thrust of our campaign is to colonise the centre ground, not retreat from it.

Clark Vasey: Workington Man could make the dream of a Northern county without a single Labour seat a reality

Boris Johnson is already appealing to Blue Collar voters who are fed up with Labour’s betrayal of Brexit and the values of working people.

Alex Hall: Why the Conservatives shouldn’t enter into an election pact with the Brexit Party

And what of our voters who would be repelled by a pact with it? I can see the Lib/Lab slogan already: “Vote Blue, get Farage”.

David Gauke: The three Brexit policy options from which the Prime Minister must now choose

I still want to avoid a second referendum. But unless we can make progress towards Parliament supporting a deal, those calls are going to grow.

“The landing zone”

How the pro-Leave Spartans, not pro-Remain or pro-Soft Brexit Tories, could end up whipless – and barred from contesting a general election as Conservatives.

Garvan Walshe: No Deal has failed. The choice is May’s deal, no Brexit – or no United Kingdom.

The fundamental mistake of the Brexiteers domestically is that they have mistaken a moral argument for a political one.

Rachel Wolf: When voters say their priorities are the NHS and schools, politicians ought to believe them

The unwise Westminster trend is to invent increasingly elaborate ‘explanations’ for such views, rather than take them literally.

James Frayne: An election is coming. Here are the messages – beyond Brexit – that the Conservatives need to win it.

The 2017 election contains a series of lessons, assuming that anyone is looking for them.