Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.

Rebecca Lowe: What Alfie Evans, an IVF-conceived child and the abortion pill all have in common

These concerns, however, often only add to the need for us to remain ethically and democratically engaged, particularly regarding the most emotive cases.

Rebecca Lowe: Gender pay, childcare, flexibility, robots – and the future of work

To my mind, once some kind of base fairness has been established, then it’s best to leave cultural transformations down to demand.

Pro-Remain Cabinet Minister “wants Gove as Chancellor”

Though if May moves Philip Hammond, or seeks to, she is also likely to move Boris Johnson, or try to.

Loudspeaker politicised reactions to tragedies must not be allowed to drown out democracy

Justified calls for a national government’s overthrow are usually confined to those in which there is a serious threat of tyranny or the breakdown of civil order.

Douglas Carswell: An electoral drift to the Left? Not really. The Left isn’t thriving. It’s dying.

From Spain to Italy to America, parties of organised labour are in trouble. The blue collar base didn’t come out for them – and may not come out for Corbyn either.

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.

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).

Jo Johnson moves to open up a closed University system

The free marketeers don’t like all his proposals, and quotas would lower standards. But many of his plans head in the right direction.

Gove flays Osborne. But is he now the Chancellor’s leadership candidate?

The occupant of Number 11 may seek to become what Margaret Thatcher claimed to be after she was brought down: “a good back seat driver”.

Matthew Sinclair: No 0.7 per cent target. The budget kept at current levels. Go for humanitarian help. A compromise on international aid.

I think a deal on development is actually possible. The two sides are not as far apart as they often seem.

Jamie Martin: We must fight for the common ground, not the centre ground

Winning electoral battles is not enough. We must win intellectual battles to change history.

On immigration, Cameron must help May to hold the line

For all the Government’s failures, she was making a bold, brave argument. It may offend the zeitgeist within the M25, but it resonates in the bigger Britain.

Kate Maltby: We should scrap the distinction between refugees and economic migrants – and take more of them

Tories are at their weakest when they appear short on empathy and seem to limit that vaunted freedom to flourish to a privileged few.

ConHome/Taxpayers’ Alliance Conference sketch: Exit Douglas Carswell, pursued by a bear

At our Post-Election Conference, UKIP’s only MP was put on the spot, and others were applauded as they outlined great things which can now be achieved.