Simon Marcus: The Conservatives need a grassroots army to match Labour’s

The Opposition have lots of well-motivated infantry and the digital tools to coordinate them effectively. They could put Corbyn into Downing Street.

Sunder Katwala: Will the Conservatives have more ethnic minority MPs than Labour after this election?

The Tories are making gradual rather than spectacular progress on ethnic diversity – as the party’s class of 2017 looks set to prove.

Battleground Seats 5) London

Continuing our series on the key contests in each region and 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.

Watkins back for third go at Tooting. Macleod battles Cracknell for Brentford & Isleworth. Latest candidate news.

Shortlists for Wirral West, Ealing Central & Acton, Chorley and Bristol East. And selection results in Blackpool South, Darlington and Eltham.

Claire-Louise Leyland selected for Hampstead and Kilburn

Labour won the constituency by 1,138 votes in 2015 and by 42 in 2010, so this is unquestionably a target seat.

Ollerenshaw back in Lancaster & Fleetwood. Shortlists for Brentwood & Ongar, and Hampstead & Kilburn. The latest candidate news.

Plus details of selections in Clwyd South, Delyn, Wrexham, Moray, West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine, and more.

The Commons dare not kill Brexit. But many MPs will not strive officiously to keep it alive.

If you’re pro-Leave, don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by yesterday’s emphatic vote for Article 50.

Simon Marcus: Utopianism makes the left intolerant

When you think your cause is beyond reproach, it’s must easier to demonise your opponents and justify mistreating them – and I’ve experienced the results.

Battlegrounds Revisited 5) London

Both parties hammered the Lib Dems as a clutch of very slender victories gave Labour their point of light on election night.

Bernard Aryeetey: We name the key marginals in which housing is a vital issue for the Conservatives – and the other parties

St Austell & Newquay, Hampstead & Kilburn, Great Yarmouth…what Shelter found, using Lord Ashcroft’s polling as the basis for our research.

The Election Battleground 5) London

Our fifth battleground summary explores the capital, where Labour and the Conservatives square off whilst trying to squeeze out the Liberal Democrats.