Peel increased the burden of taxation on the rich – perhaps Sunak and Johnson will too

Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.

Profile: Carrie Symonds, experienced Tory adviser turned Prime Ministerial consort – loyal to her friends, detested by her enemies

She may appear to present a softer target than he does, but she has never been afraid of fighting her corner.

The prospect seems remote. But is National Government on its way?

One can conceive of Ministers seeking an all-party public front, and Labour objecting to responsibility with no power.

Johnson strikes a blow for freedom – and confounds his critics

By reaching a deal in Brussels, the Tory anarchist has exceeded what the official classes and conventional wisdom supposed was possible.

Alistair Lexden: How the 1918 election paved the way to inter-war Conservative hegemony

Just as they had with Joe Chamberlain before him, the Tory leadership wooed Lloyd George to fatally fracture the Liberal Party.

Profile: The Prime Minister, as revealed in the twelve qualities shared by successful holders of that office

The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.

Lewis Baston: Half a Government and no real Opposition – the general election of 1922

It was not entirely clear at the time that it had created a new political structure that would last for generations – with the Conservatives as the leading party of the state.

Lewis Baston: When nationalists helped to pitch out a minority Conservative government. The general election of 1892.

Think of today’s two main parties led in 2015 by Nicholas Soames and Denis Healey and you are part of the way there.

Lewis Baston: The election that never happened – after the events of this month, a hundred years ago

What would the result have been of a 1914/15 poll – in a Britain that sometimes seemed to be on the verge of civil war?

Stephen Tall: Cameron is doing his best to hold his party together, but it may not suffice

Would the Conservatives survive an EU In/Out Referendum in one piece?