Honours for Party volunteers

The Conservative Party is starting to value its activists again

Parvez Akhtar: The Birmingham schools problem was about more than extremism – namely, segregation.

Interference at a local level goes against every conservative principle we all hold dear – but the consequences of not acting can be severe.

Iain Dale: Let’s send pro-reform, bone-dry Theresa Villiers to Brussels

Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.

Welcome, Alternative für Deutschland

Today’s ECR decision is a stark reminder of the gap that separates the Christian Democrat and Conservative visions of Europe.

Chloe Smith MP: How to turn the Conservative Party into Generation Y’s natural home

By 2025, GY and younger will be a competitive proportion of the electorate. We must appeal to them.

Chloe Smith MP: The economy. Education. Intergenerational issues. The most important ones for young people.

Conservatives are not the mouthpiece of the ‘already haves’; we are the party for all those who aspire to have, and to do, and to be.

Greg Clark MP: Rod Bluh, David Renard, and the success of Conservative Swindon

Ed Miliband said last month that the council leader is doing a very good job. He was absolutely right. But he was not aware that the leader in question is a Tory.

Chloe Smith MP: Young people are disengaged from voting – but not from politics

Politics must adapt to new ways, and fast. In my view it is an obvious and necessary reform to move voting online.

The strength of the Conservative team, the weakness of the Labour team

The failure of Yvette Cooper and Tristram Hunt in the Commons yesterday was a symptom of a bigger Opposition problem.

Chloe Smith MP: Why I want politics in our country to work for Generation Y

The first piece of a four-part series on Britain, young people, voting, democracy, engagement – and the Conservative Party.

UKIP has transformed the electoral map – so let’s reach out to Lib Dem voters

We be witnessing the birth of an intriguing new phenomenon – tactical voting by left-ish voters for the Conservative Party

Damian Green MP: The lesson of Newark is Don’t Ape UKIP

For the first time in years, young women with push chairs were happy to stop and talk to someone wearing a blue rosette, and even to take balloons for the children.

The weakness of the Conservative brand v the weakness of Ed Miliband

A lesson of Newark is just how deep-set that last one is among voters.

Mel Stride MP: Post Newark – how to deal with UKIP

We should point up that UKIP’s electoral appeal to Left and Right is inconsistent and undeliverable – a ‘have your cake and eat it’ brand of politics.

Bob Blackman MP: The plain packaging of cigarettes will protect the health of young people

What is not Conservative is the extreme and antique nineteenth century liberal position that demands no interference with the claimed “freedom” of companies.