Having confidence in leaving the Customs Union

May should not shirk from seeking an election over her manifesto pledge to leave it. But we are not there yet – not nearly.

Daniel Hannan: Leave.EU and Arron Banks – the Brexiteers that the Remain campaign loved

And here’s the thing: Banks knew it. Farage knew it. But they didn’t care. Their primary objective was to be seen to lead the campaign, not to win it.

Battleground Seats 11) East of England

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

How Twitter enabled a tawdry oaf to become President

In his new book, Peter Oborne interprets a collection of the outrageous Tweets which carried Trump to high office.

ConHome/Taxpayers’ Alliance Conference sketch: Exit Douglas Carswell, pursued by a bear

At our Post-Election Conference, UKIP’s only MP was put on the spot, and others were applauded as they outlined great things which can now be achieved.

Heresy of the week: Political correctness has nothing to do with politeness

For the politically correct left, free speech is a zero sum game, for some people to find their voice, others must be silenced.

Will UKIP actually change anything?

UKIP is, in both form and function a conventional political party

WATCH: Douglas Carswell gives his victory speech

“Croney corporatism is not the free market. Cosy cartel politics is not democracy. Change is coming.”

The Conservatives have a good chance of winning Rochester and Strood

Mark Reckless, the UKIP candidate in Rochester, is nothing like as popular as Douglas Carswell is in Clacton.

The worst fault of the Westminster elite is that it is not elitist enough

Demagogic attacks by UKIP and the SNP on the Conservatives and Labour are inspired by an unacknowledged and unrealistic egalitarianism.

Tories should turn their backs on snobbery

Away from the playgrounds of the prosperous, “tattoo-parlour Britain” is very much today’s Britain

Lewis Baston: Douglas Carswell, and the three types of MPs who defect

Churchill, Mosley, Powell, Prentice, Owen, Berkeley, Taverne…There are the awkward men of principle. Those whose parties have changed radically. And the lost souls.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: hostilities suspended as Cameron and Miliband unite in the face of terrorism

Only the points of order raised against John Bercow by three Tory MPs struck a partisan note.

Interview: Carswell – The Tory leadership views the Conservatives as “the property of a small clique, not a mass movement”

“I agree with a huge amount of things the Conservative Party stands for. And its activists and most of its MPs believe in the things I believe in.”

Heresy of the week: Prison reform is a conservative issue – or at least it should be

Prisons are meant to be places of punishment – and if you count enforced, soul-destroying idleness as a punishment – then they are fulfilling this function