Alistair Lexden: On this day, May 8, 75 years ago. Churchill’s VE Day statement in the Lords Chamber.

The great Parliamentarian then spoke to his colleagues from the heart. “Some Members wept,” Channon noted.

Neil O’Brien: The balance of power between economic and social conservatives may be shifting to the latter

We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.

Beware the Eye of Johnson

It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.

Unfit for office. But worse even than Corbyn are Labour’s moderates – who are willing to put his anti-Jewish racism into power.

Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.

Conservatism is better than liberalism – and Putin much, much worse than either

What he detests is less liberalism than democracy, and the obstacle it poses to Russian foreign policy objectives.

Daniel Hannan: The Gang of Four caused a split. The Gang of Eight have caused only a splinter.

As long as traditional Labour voters stick with the party, opportunities for the Independent Group will be limited.

The Khashoggi case shows that the UK’s alliance with Saudi Arabia serves neither our interests nor our values

For how much longer can Ministers continue to try to defend a relationship which has become increasingly indefensible?

James Bickerton: Why aren’t the Far Left treated with the same disdain as the Far Right?

There would, quite rightly, be outrage if a senior Conservative figure delivered a speech to a crowd which waved fascist flags.

Mark Francois: States like Russia now pose the primary threat to the UK – we must strengthen our defences accordingly

The erroneous assumption that hostile states were no longer relevant has rightly been abandoned. Now our Armed Forces need the resources to meet the challenge.

Julian Mann: Make no mistake. This Ofsted plan is a threat to religious freedom.

Once the State starts monitoring the counter-cultural Christian opinions, it could be your voluntary group next for thought-policing.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: MPs shouldn’t inject political bias into the university syllabus – but neither should academics

There is a legitimate question to be asked about whether UK universities have been fulfilling their duty to provide a model of reasoned discourse on Brexit.

Joe Egerton: Why we need a transition period of up to seven years

EURATOM, WTO quotas, open skies agreements, banks’ ability to lend – all these involve change which it may not be possible to effect by April 2019.

Lib Dems: One referendum is Hitler. A second referendum wouldn’t be Hitler. Unless we lose, in which case: Hitler.

Maybe Ken Livingstone can explain.

Tim Bonner: Ignorant, unjust – and bad for the environment. It’s time to call a halt to rewilding.

Better to engage instead with the huge opportunities that post-Brexit rural policy presents.

Daniel Hannan: Why do so many on the Left have a blind spot when it comes to anti-Semitism?

The Oxford Labour Club allegations are just part of a worrying trend, which is rooted in a long and unpleasant history.