Carswell. Energetic, honest – and with no idea of how the world actually works

Taking out the middle man is what the Protestant reformers promised to do, and Carswell is in his way a very Protestant figure.

Election 2017: Karen Lumley and Andrew Turner stand down. Here’s the list of other MPs also doing so to date.

A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Bercow allows MPs almost an hour for saying goodbye

Corbyn could not shake May, but Robertson for a moment disconcerted her.

Send Stuart to the Lords, and Carswell to…Downing Street

This election follows a referendum that strained, and in some cases shattered, party loyalties. The Prime Minister ought now to be building her own big tent.

The Prime Minister’s election gamble. The pros. The cons.

Above all, don’t neglect the obvious. May is vulnerable to Tory revolts – as the NICs debacle proved. She wants a real working majority.

Iain Dale: May moves Article 50 – and the BBC plunges into a period of national mourning

Plus: May’s legs, Starmer’s hair, Sturgeon’s legs, Warsi the enemy within, Carswell the rebel without, pigs may fly in Dumfries. And: A Rudd-faced Home Secretary.

Carswell scorned the old politics. Now it takes its revenge.

If he wants to rejoin the Conservatives, he should be readmitted. But that’s not to say that he should be the candidate in Clacton in 2020.

UKIP rebuffs Banks’s demand to take over

The multi-millionaire has been suspended from the party after criticising Nuttall’s leadership.

Arise, Sir Nigel of ConservativeHome

Resolving the row between Carswell and Farage is beyond our powers, but we must do what we can to help.

If Carswell is expelled from UKIP, should the Conservatives take him back?

Your views below, please.

Lewis Baston: By-elections – and what has happened in those in which the MP has resigned his seat

The story of who won (like David Davis). And who lost (like Zac Goldsmith).

Banks moves to launch a competitor to UKIP – threatening to do serious damage to the People’s Army

The concept of a non-party party, standing independents to “clean up politics” has been tried before.

How the Conservatives are rebuilding their links with the Republicans – and will work with America’s President-elect

After a long chill, relations between the sister parties are thawing.

Chris Stevens: Working alongside Conservatives in the referendum campaign convinced me I should join them

Now I have switched from UKIP to the Conservative Group on the excellent Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

The not-so-bad Woolfe

It’s hard to imagine Conservative MEPs behaving the same way – Charles Tannock, for example, clocking, say, Geoffrey Van Orden.