A candidate shortage strikes Conservative target seats

Numbers applying for target seats are down across the board. At least one Tory association has refused to shortlist, and demanded applications be reopened.

Davis writes to Conservative MPs, warning of the “dire” electoral consequences of Chequers

“We should…switch to Canada +++ and deliver an outcome that is good for the UK, acceptable to Parliament, and negotiable with Brussels.”

Nicky Morgan: Let Hammond and the Treasury lead our Conservative programme for national renewal

Levels of trust between Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street may be low, but the latter holds the key to helping create an economy and society that works for everyone.

Scottish Labour may yet do Britain a service… by sparing it Corbyn

It will help Davidson solidify her grip on the unionist base, and give swing voters minded for a change from the SNP fewer alternatives to consider.

WATCH: Cable declares it is “improbable” he will still be the Leader of the Lib Dems in 2022

“I’ve got a series of tasks to do. I’m going to do them….but I’m looking for a professional transition to a new generation.”

Davidson says “I will not be a candidate.” Where does the Tory left look for a leadership contender?

One can conjure up the names of former Ministers, present Ministers and backbenchers. But only one of them presently sits at the Cabinet table.

When the Conservative-DUP pact is renegotiated, both parties must be bold

The Brexit negotiations ought to have highlighted to both sides how the Union is best served by a strong cross-water alliance.

Our Tory members’ panel survey. Expectation of a Conservative-led government after the next election drops to a record low.

We register a dizzying fall of 18 per cent since the Chequers Cabinet meeting and the Brexit White Paper.

Our survey panel. It’s a record high for the view that the Prime Minister should leave Downing Street before the next election.

Each monthly answer to this question since last June has found that over half the respondents want a new leader in place for the contest due in 2022.

Our survey. Seven in ten respondents believe that there will be a Conservative-led government after the next election.

The explanation may have less to do with confidence in the Conservatives than with a lack of confidence in Labour.

Will Tanner: Our three-point plan to build more houses and boost home ownership

Onward proposes helping half a million young people by lending them a deposit in the same way that government underwrites some of their mortgage costs.

Grieve is right. The logic of a Government defeat today leads to a change of leadership – and a general election

Neither Tory MPs nor voters want a poll, but a paralysed Government and Parliament would make one all but unavoidable long before 2022.

Nicky Morgan: Chope’s upskirting ban veto, and no-deal hard Brexiteers – fellow travellers in the campaign to wreck modernisation

It says it all, really, that an older male Tory MP should object to outlawing a sexual crime which makes use of twenty-first century technology.

WATCH: Clarke dismisses the idea of an early election

He argues that Labour MPs are as ‘terrified’ of a Corbyn-led government as he is.

WATCH: Shapps – “It’s conceivable but not likely that Theresa May will lead us into the next election”

But the former Party Chairman tells Sophie Ridge that he thinks the Prime Minister needs to stop delaying decisions.