Brexit. The story of 2019 in a single paragraph.

Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat…Total Complete & Utter Victory.

Sunder Katwala: The Conservatives, ethnic minority voters, and the election. Next to no progress.

Not being white remains the number one demographic predictor of not voting Tory.

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority. 5) Childcare

There are a mass of these voters in the Red Wall seats that collapsed last week, but no party has yet made a convincing policy offer to them.

The Politics of And. Securing the Majority. 5) Building on this successful campaign at CCHQ

There will be a mass of new Conservative MPs who have no or little presence on the ground to support them.

Iain Dale: Downing Street is keeping a beady eye on the BBC

Plus: The landslide that few dared to predict. How I once tried to become Monmouth’s MP. And: Happy Christmas to all my readers

Lee Rowley: North East Derbyshire was a forerunner of this election victory. Here’s what we did to win again.

For my colleagues who’ve smashed through the Red Wall – pick those bricks up and build anew.

The Politics of And. Securing the Majority. 3) Wanted: a Department for the Union

Leaving the EU will see new opportunities and challenges for the United Kingdom as a whole – and the Party needs to fight back in Scotland.

How Vox Pub foresaw the Tory victory in England, but failed to predict defeat in Scotland

In vino veritas: talking to voters in pubs usually works. We saw how four of these five contests could be expected to play out.

Robert Halfon: For years, I’ve urged that the Conservatives become a Workers Party. Now it is one.

As the Prime Minister said, many people have lent us their vote, and they won’t be so generous next time if we get it wrong.

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority 2) Brexit Party voters

Winning more support means looking to the Party’s right as well as its left – to use crude but efficient terms.

The Politics of And. Growing the Majority. 1) Muslims

Johnson will be able to call on the advice and views of the Party’s own Muslim MPs, who now include Saqib Bhatti and Imran Ahmad-Khan.

Rachel Wolf: I co-wrote this Conservative manifesto. And so can say that its focus was on neither the rich nor the poor.

To view Britain in such a way is to see a useless picture of the nation. Most people are Just About Managing. And they are our new voters.

David Davis: How to keep the new working class voters we won last Thursday – and win even more

In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks.   It will be a battle between creativity and convention.

James Cleverly: I want to thank you and all our Party members for your hard work in this election campaign

For now, enjoy your Christmas break. You have earned it and should be proud of what we have achieved.

Stephen Booth: An inconvenient truth for Remainers and Leavers alike. This was the result that the EU wanted.

Leo Varadkar summed it up by saying, “I think it’s a positive thing that we have a decisive outcome in Britain.”