WATCH: Patten – The past few months may have been worse than Suez

“Thanks to the calamitous errors of two Conservative prime ministers in a row… we’re in this hell of a mess.”

42 per cent and no majority 2) The Party must make the case for conservatism to a new generation of voters. It hasn’t for too long.

As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.

Jamie Whyte: The Conservatives didn’t win because they rejected Thatcher’s beliefs – a small state and free markets

The “modernisers” think that people with clear principles are cranks. In five years, they may find themselves queuing for food at their local Red Star state supermarket.

Margot James: We need to make the case for wealth creation to a new generation of young people

Labour’s handouts must be exposed as a self-defeating deception – as must the danger of what happens when “there is no money left”.

Lewis Baston: The awe-inspiring, smashing, astonishing, record-breaking Conservative and National landslide of 1931

The governments of the 1930s illustrate how little a huge majority is worth if it isn’t married to a strong and imaginative policy programme.

Douglas Carswell: Those posh left-wing people who get on the BBC have helped drive UKIP voters to the Conservatives

What we are witnessing right now is one of those magnificent moments in British political history; a great Tory pivot.

Take Corbyn’s “tribute” to Prince Philip with a pinch of salt

The Labour leader’s years of indulging the IRA, who murdered the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle, should not be forgotten.

Andrew Wood: We need to follow Macmillan’s example – and let the state build the homes we need

Successful Singapore is simply copying what previous Conservative governments have done – namely, to deliver directly hundreds of thousands of new houses.

Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: Henry VIII would have coveted the EU’s powers – not these clauses in the Great Repeal Bill

The very last thing the tyrant would have done would be to restore sovereignty to Parliament.

Daniel Hannan: The hip hop musical that revitalises a star of the American Revolution

Jefferson may have had the better lines, but Hamilton got the big calls right – and now he has the more stirring verses, too.

Send Stuart to the Lords, and Carswell to…Downing Street

This election follows a referendum that strained, and in some cases shattered, party loyalties. The Prime Minister ought now to be building her own big tent.

Alistair Burt: Last week, Iain Duncan Smith told his Brexit story. Here’s mine.

The script for the new relationship with the EU must be written as much by those who valued it as by those who campaigned to leave it.

Alistair Lexden: Remembering Baldwin in a year of anniversaries

It’s past time that the record was set straight on the life and achievements of this remarkable Tory statesman.

Lord Ashcroft: My online interview with Dame Vera Lynn, on the cusp of her hundredth birthday

“It is wonderful that you are releasing an album on March 17 to mark your 100th birthday. Why have you decided to do this?”

Andrew RT Davies: Welsh Conservatives. No longer underdogs, but poised to make the most of Brexit.

On the eve of our conference, it’s clear that the Labour Party and the Welsh nationalists have yet to wake up to last June’s result.