Richard Cook: My business experience has helped me to provide effective leadership for Gloucester

When our elections finally come next year, we will be campaigning hard to win back an overall majority.

Paul James: I’m proud of what we achieving in Gloucester. But more incentives are needed for new housing.

The New Homes Bonus must not be eroded, and the constraints on small urban local authorities should be recognised.

Syed Kamall: The electoral disaster that will engulf our Party if we don’t boost our ethnic minority support

Once a seat reaches 30 per cent BME population, it goes Labour. In 2010, this applied to 75 seats. By 2022, it could apply to around 120 seats.

Richard Graham: We failed to make the case for business in June. We must do so once again at Party Conference – and after.

Conservative values underpin what it can achieve – whether in apprenticeships, manufacturing exports, jobs or contributions to good causes.

Battlegrounds Revisited 2) The South West

We continue our post-match inspection of our battleground profiles with the Liberal Democrat graveyard of the South West.

Cllr Paul James: A positive campaign in Gloucester delivered Conservative victory

Our campaign slogan was “Let’s Keep Gloucester on the UP!”

Lord Ashcroft: Only one seat changes hands in my latest Con/Lab marginals polling. Labour pulls ahead in Harrow East

It’s very tight indeed in these constituencies, but Ed Miliband’s party has the edge in these local campaigns on the basis of this evidence.

The Election Battleground 2) The South West

The second piece in our series explores the intense struggles across the South West of England.