The Election Battlegrounds 3) North West

Our series continues with a look at another key region, which offers a decent clutch of targets to either Labour or the Conservatives on a good night.

Battleground Seats 9) North West

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

Four former MPs selected. Shortlist of two to take on Farron. All the latest candidate news.

Shortlists for Westmorland & Lonsdale, and Birmingham Edgbaston. Plus selections including Barrow & Furness, Ealing Central & Acton, Clwyd South and more.

McVey selected for Tatton

She defeated Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams outright on the first round of voting.

Exclusive: Esther McVey shortlisted for Tatton

The former Wirral West MP and Minister for Employment completes the shortlist, alongside Katherine Fletcher and Cllr Alex Williams.

Clark Vasey: Eagle now calls out the Hard Left for thuggery. But she said nothing when the target was Esther McVey.

Wirral West saw probably the nastiest, most personalised campaign of last year’s General Election.

Liverpool, the Conservatives – and a last call for Heseltine

The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.

Interview: Priti Patel, Employment Minister, makes the case for hard work and free childcare

She knows about work, and is unembarrassed to talk about it, because her family arrived from Uganda with nothing.

Battlegrounds Revisited 1) The North West

In the aftermath of the election, we revisit our regional profiles to see how the parties fared compared to expectations.

George Osborne has misunderstood the politics and economics of welfare reform

The long-term effects of Osborne’s slash-and-burn approach to welfare are less certain than IDS’s more considered approach.

Argy-bhaji from Pickles at DCLG questions

By Paul Goodman Oral questions in the Commons is changing its tone and nature, at least as far as Communities… Read more »