White hot heat of the technological Cummings?

This new government seems to want to concentrate its energies on giving Britain a cutting edge. Will it succeed where others have failed?

How the half a century-long Conservative civil war over Europe was won last week in a single day. By the Brexiteers.

One has to pinch oneself to remember that as recently as last July May was Prime Minister, Hammond Chancellor of the Exchequer and Gauke Lord Chancellor.

Michael McManus: Maggie and Ted – my new play about the most notorious feud in modern political history

I worked for both of them, and they were extraordinary human beings. But they were also both contingent, flawed, and also with their all-too-obvious blind spots.

Progressive Conservative reformers 3) Thatcher – and the sale of council houses to their tenants

How better to follow Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday than by citing a signature Tory policy that shifted wealth to “working people and their families”?

LibDem limits

Brexit has changed much for them, but less than one might think – at least when it comes to their strategic position at Westminster.

Tobias Ellwood: To flourish, our Party must stay in the centre ground – not march off to the right

We regularly describe ourselves as a broad church – and correctly so. Any alignment with the Brexit Party would see that width of appeal narrowed.

Richard Kelly: A lesson from May’s departure – and from history. So often, it’s Tory activists, not MPs, who bring down their leader.

Yesterday’s emergency National Convention meeting was a reminder of the influence and power of the grassroots.

ConservativeHome’s leadership election panel. “The next Tory leader’s task is to fashion a home for “decent populists”

Each week, our panel of John O’Sullivan, Rachel Wolf, Trevor Phillips, Tim Montgomerie and Marcus Roberts will analyse and assess what’s happening.

From magic circle to one member one vote: a short history of Tory leadership contests

The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: May failed to lead Britain out of the EU – but her successor can yet succeed

There may be greater willingness by Brussels to negotiate following populist successes in the European elections.

Alistair Lexden: Forty years ago, Thatcher was assembling her transformative Government

Disraeli defined conservatism as ‘love of country and an instinct for power’, and her successors should strive for her winning fusion of the two.

Neave had the boldness to make a home run from Colditz, and to help Thatcher beat Heath

Patrick Bishop’s biography of Airey Neave, who in 1975 showed how to run a successful leadership campaign.

Why Britain wants to leave this European Union of failed nation states

In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.

Richard Ritchie: Brexit. Four great Commons debates that show how we got here – and what’s at stake.

That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May cannot sell her compromise and centrist MPs are preparing to take over

Power seems to be seeping away from the ancien regime.