Lord Ashcroft: Labour’s lead up to four points in my latest poll

Plus the results of my focus groups in Halesowen and Taunton, including: if each party leader were a supermarket, which would they be?

Iain Dale: Roger Bird – not exactly Brad Pitt in the looks department, is he?

Plus: Farage knifes Hamilton. Hopeless Miliband. Useless Clegg. Truth from Phibbs. Katz among the pigeons. And: I’m forever, forever, forever blowing bubbles.

Stephen Tall: How did it come to this? The Lib Dems’ seven key Coalition moments

From tuition fees to those Farage debates: the story of how my party went from Cleggmania to single digits in under five years.

Iain Dale: Can we now put signs up all over Britain, saying: “LibDems: losing here”?

Plus: My partner votes for a nutter. Downing Street disasters. West Ham’s agony. The gifted Suzanne Evans. And finally: What I might do to really, really annoy you…

Browne turns a shade of Blue

The MP for Taunton isn’t a conservative. But could he be a Conservative?

Is Jeremy Browne yellow or blue?

Tax cuts, profit-making schools, health insurance, seven new airport runways and the abolition of DECC – why isn’t Jeremy Browne a Tory MP?

Another hint as to who sacked Jeremy Browne

The opportunity to blame the Conservatives was handed to him on a platter – tellingly, he didn’t take it.

Interview: Boles – “There is no legal reason why the press should play along with the Royal Charter”

“The Liberal Democrats have shown they do not believe in press freedom. We Conservatives are the party of freedom.”