The new boundary review will stick at 650 seats. Cui bono?

Analysis suggested the smaller map would have produced a bigger Tory majority – but others say it would make it harder for newly-elected MPs to hold on next time.

Local elections postponed until 2021

The Electoral Commission had proposed a delay until the autumn. It does leave a number of practical challenges.

James Frayne: Seven non-Leave players who helped to make Brexit happen

All those named inadvertently paved the way for Britain’s exit. They feature an American President, a Supreme Court judge – and a quango.

Peter Golds: The Electoral Commission has rewritten the law to make it difficult to investigate vote fraudsters

It has, without consultation or a change in the law, slammed shut the principal way that investigating corruption of the register may be properly conducted.

Henry Hill: Belief that DUP are softening their position raises hopes of Brexit deal

Also: Poll suggests SNP have a mountain to climb on independence; Cameron admits he asked Queen to intervene in 2014; and more.

Peter Golds: Our electoral process needs urgent root and branch reform

In April 2020, Lutfur Rahman will have his disqualification lifted. He will be free to stand in the 2022 local elections. Will the police have learned anything?

Henry Hill: GERS Day – Scottish Government’s own statistics punch fresh hole in the case for independence

“When otherwise sensible folk, holding down serious jobs, devise and propagate all manner of conspiracy theories, as well as insult Scottish Government analysts…”

Now can we all agree that something is seriously wrong at the Electoral Commission?

When there are genuine threats, foreign and domestic, our democracy needs better protection than this visibly failing organisation.

Daniel Hannan: For Brexit to work, power must be stripped from the quangocrats – and returned to people we elect

Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.

Johnson’s prosecution is just the latest push in a long campaign of Remainer lawfare

The specifics of the case warrant all the critical scrutiny they’re receiving, but we must not lose sight of the bigger picture.

WATCH: Stuart says that Vote Leave’s overspending was due to unclear rules

She accepts the regulator has the last word, but says that “We were rule-compliant according to the legal advice we were given at that time”.

Cheryl Gillan: Fake news. Dark ads. Foreign interference – and out-of-date rules. Why we need an overhaul of our electoral laws.

If we do not update the rules governing our elections and referendums, their credibility faces a perfect storm of threats.

Peter Golds: Suspended councillors, polling station mobs…and demonic Smurfs. Yes, it’s election time again in Tower Hamlets.

In 1872 the secret ballot was introduced to prevent open voting. 137 years later, the United Kingdom cannot guarantee a secret ballot in our capital city.

Iain Dale: As they prepare to vote next Tuesday, here’s why Conservative MPs should back May’s deal

Plus: Marion Little carries can for CCHQ – and many agents of all parties will think: “there but for the grace of God go I.” And: Am I creepy?

There’s a serious discussion to have about data and electoral law, but it is yet to take place.

Our democracy is poorly served by widespread ignorance about campaign technology, and the fact glamorous alarmism wins more headlines than grubby reality.