Daniel Hannan: Better to select the Tory leader like the Dalai Lama than elect him in this preposterous way

I just can’t see how parliamentary sovereignty is compatible with a potential Prime Minister being nominated by an extra-parliamentary body.

Daniel Hannan: That Brexit film works as drama. But it doesn’t as history. I should know. I was there.

The real flaw in Graham’s film was the implication that Vote Leave won by turning the European question into something else.

Brexit: The Uncivil War. Graham gives us Cummings Agonistes – and a Tory work of art.

The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.

CCHQ encourages applicants to be Police and Crime Commissioner candidates

The deadline is August 6th. While the role has yet to capture the public’s imagination, it has genuine power.

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