Labour voters make Kim Leadbeater, sister of Jo Cox, early favourite in the Batley and Spen by-election

They described Johnson as a “dictator”, and want a local champion. The Conservatives have now selected their candidate.

Andy Street: Ahead of the local elections, I want to pay tribute to the dedicated team working to win the support of the West Midlands

I am very conscious that I am only one of 141 Conservative candidates campaigning in these elections.

In defence of the Prime Minister

Complaints from broadcasters and the media about language are synthetic and hypocritical. The real issue is the delay of the general election – which is indefensible.

Anna Firth: Local Government, not central Government, has the power and the tools to combat loneliness

In Sevenoaks, we are using public health funding to pay for advisors working in GP surgeries to help tackle the non-medical causes why people visit their doctor.

Mohammed Amin: Preventing terrorism is your responsibility

Politicians like Geert Wilders who want to ban the Quran and who treat all Muslims as “the enemy within” are doing ISIS’s work for them.

Nick Paget-Brown: The Prevent programme is about protecting the vulnerable

It is important to help families worried that a teenager is being indoctrinated by terrorists.

Sunder Katwala: There are big choices ahead on immigration – we need a national conversation about what to do

To restore trust on the issue requires both sides to balance the pressures and gains of immigration.

Seema Kennedy: We must face up to the problem of loneliness

The Jo Cox Loneliness Commission seeks to change lives across the country.

Vice signalling

There is a misunderstanding about Arron Banks’s claim that Brendan Cox has chosen “to massively politicise” the murder of his wife, Jo Cox.

Hands off the Daily Mail

The campaign against the paper is not so much about a headline last week, but about shifting the balance of media power to the left.

The not-so-bad Woolfe

It’s hard to imagine Conservative MEPs behaving the same way – Charles Tannock, for example, clocking, say, Geoffrey Van Orden.

Peter Marshall: We should care not only about our country, but about the world it is part of. And vote to stay tomorrow

Brexit is unrivalled as a self-centred prescription.

Putin’s view of the EU referendum – in his own words

What he said offers no guidance one way or the other and, since it was largely missed, it is worth reprinting.

WATCH: MPs honour the memory of Jo Cox

Two roses marked her customary seat on the green benches as Members from all sides remembered their colleague.

Andrew Mitchell’s speech paying tribute to Jo Cox

He spoke of his friend, a “five-foot bundle of old-fashioned Yorkshire common sense.”