Ruth Davidson MSP: While Labour struggle for relevance, we Conservatives offer a bulwark against the SNP

Launching her new ConservativeHome column, the Scottish Conservative and Unionist leader makes an appeal to middle ground voters.

Election Sketch: Why the Scots are so keen to register a massive protest vote against Labour

Labour voters in Douglas Alexander’s seat are furious at being treated as “a second-class nation” and “bullied” during the referendum.

Lord Ashcroft: My latest poll of marginals shows Jim Murphy losing his seat to the SNP

Nicola Sturgeon’s party would win seven out of these eight seats on these figures. Douglas Alexander, Charles Kennedy, Jo Swinson – all would be out of the Commons.

Lady Berridge: We must champion the freedom to change one’s beliefs about religion

This covers the expression of views, proselytisation (both for faiths and atheistic views), and a robust protection of the freedom to convert, both at home and abroad.

Iain Dale: No, Balls isn’t anti-business. Indeed, he understands business.

Plus: Lord Ashcroft’s Scotland poll – I must revise my predictions. Abuse in Rotherham. An upset in Sheffield? My drivetime success. And: in memoriam, Martin Gilbert.

Looking at Labour 1) The Shadow Cabinet

The average member of Miliband’s team has spent just four and a half years working in the private sector. A quarter have no private sector experience at all.

LabServative! That Blue-Red Coalition. Cabinet list in full.

Includes five jobshare posts, and returns to the front bench for Ken Clarke, Liam Fox, Tom Watson…and Emily Thornberry.

Could Labour steal a march on the Conservatives over religious freedom?

Douglas Alexander is right to urge the creation of a Government envoy for it.

Iain Dale: The best and worst Conservative leaders. Who do you nominate?

Plus: Pipe down, John Mann. Pipe down, Justin Tomlinson. Why I love Paris. Why France hates Hollande. Teflon Theresa May. And: Why Labour doesn’t rate Miliband.

Stuart Coster: Heroes and Zeroes of the EU Referendum Bill

Bob Neil re-presents it for Second Reading today. Here are extracts from its Second Reading last time round

WATCH: Douglas Alexander’s General Election Freudian slip

Whose future are Labour interested in? Over to their campaign ‘guru’…

After the Wharton Bill on Europe, a Wharton Vote on England?

Downing Street is mulling a means of putting Labour on the spot. How inspiring it would be to see evidence that it’s more than a tactical wheeze.

50 Questions if Scotland votes Yes

We hope and believe that No will win, and that these inquiries will come to nothing. But it is necessary to put them.

The new Scottish question: would a close victory be good enough for Better Together?

Surely it would surpass the narrow defeat suggested by today’s YouGov poll. But it wouldn’t be without problems for Unionist politicians.

God help the Union as Douglas Alexander, Labour’s blunderkind, gets the reins of Better Together

Sure, Alistair Darling might have lacked punch – but why replace him with a copper-bottomed disaster?