The Prime Minister unites his party on Europe, but is he winning – or is the Tory Right?

By challenging the German system of consensus politics, Cameron made himself a hero for a day.

Iain Dale: I won’t join those dancing on Coulson’s grave

Plus: Bad Suarez. Useless Obama. Kinnock, the new Miliband. And: Make the most of your mother while you still have time.

Lord Hill denies he will be our next European Commissioner, and draws lessons for 2015 from the victory of 1992

The Leader of the House of Lords recalls in this interview how John Major benefited from being pelted with eggs, but was then trapped in “a medieval torture chamber”.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Miliband strains credulity by claiming the whole country cares about O’Donnell

Labour could not break down Cameron’s defence, and ignored past crooks in Downing Street.

Lord Ashcroft: A big lesson from the Blue-Yellow marginals – don’t assume uniform swing

My poll of closely-contested Conservative-Liberal Democrat seats indicates that were the general election held now Nick Clegg’s party would lose 15 MPs to the Tories.

Conservatives need to learn once more to speak the language of patriotism

Our politicians have left a rhetorical vacuum into which nationalist politicians – Salmond and Farage – have moved.

WATCH: Cameron and Miliband discuss the situation in the Middle East

The Prime Minister stressed that the most important question is how to keep British people safe, at home and abroad.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: the House would be happy to impeach both Blair and Juncker

Sir Peter Tapsell evoked the last enchantments of the 1950s as he called for the former Labour Prime Minister to be brought to book.

What would happen if Clegg backed an EU Referendum?

Today’s papers suggest that he might. In anticipation, we list some of the potential ramifications for Clegg himself and for the other party leaders.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour lead by six points in my latest national poll

Also: the first in a series of focus groups, conducted in Thurrock and Halifax. What was the link they made between Nigel Farage and Simon Cowell?

Honours for Party volunteers

The Conservative Party is starting to value its activists again

Icarus Miliband gets burned by The Sun

By laying into the red-top, then trying to woo it, the Labour leader has succeeded in annoying everyone.

Joe Storey: New Labour is still a danger

Voters should remember the damage that the Blair and Brown-led governments are responsible for.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron gives Labour nightmares

For Ed Miliband this was like being beaten up by a Bertie Wooster figure who turns out to be both clever and brutal.

Greg Clark MP: Rod Bluh, David Renard, and the success of Conservative Swindon

Ed Miliband said last month that the council leader is doing a very good job. He was absolutely right. But he was not aware that the leader in question is a Tory.