Election Battlegrounds 9) London

All three parties have a middling band of targets – what leaps out is how so many Cameron-era gains now seem out of the Tories’ reach.

Sunder Katwala: Childcare, not Kashmir. Neither Narendra Modi nor Imran Khan are candidates in this election.

Treat claims of a communalist election with suspicion. The evidence suggests that ethnic minority voters prioritise domestic issues over foreign policy ones.

Felicity Buchan selected as Conservative candidate for Kensington

She will take on Emma Dent Coad, who has a majority of 20.

The Australian Liberals know who their target voters are. The Conservatives don’t seem to have a clue.

Amidst the gathering leadership election debate, there is a lack of focus on who such voters are and where they live.

Greg Hammond: Freedom for disruptive technologies v the need for peace and quiet

Clumsy bans are not the answer – but local rules do need to be adapted to cope with Uber, Deliveroo and Airbnb.

Ten local election results to watch for the Tories

How bad is the prognosis for urban Conservatism? Will there be a fightback outside of London? Will the Liberal Democrats show signs of life? Some potential clues.

Victoria Borwick: On knife crime, you can and you must do more, Mr Mayor

The police know where the hot spots are. They must identify the most harmful gang members and can give them a stark choice.

A Conservative electoral choice post-referendum. ABs or DEs?

Do they become the party of the provincial working class and lower middle class? Or do they fight to maintain their status as the party of the affluent middle class?

Victoria Borwick: We must turn Labour’s red tide in London

The Conservative position in the capital is steadily eroding. Unless this trend is reversed, the hard left could stall Britain’s greatest engine of growth.

Lewis Baston: The election suggests that the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting

The shock over the overall result has distracted us from how remarkable some of each party’s gains really were.

Matthew Offord: Enough sychophants. Enough time-servers. Enough of this CCHQ farce. Why I am standing for the Party Board.

Many of us were denied access to VoteSource, literature and printing resources – and we all had to wait for ever for CCHQ to ‘approve’ any and every statement printed.

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower calamity – and regardless of it – asserting property rights is not enough

A Conservative MP has led the way in proposing how London could be rebalanced away from the super-rich and back towards the mass of its citizens.

Jarrow goes blue! But May loses her seat! Yet it’s a Tory landslide! The amazing 2020 General Election.

We present dismissible projections drawn from last June’s results…and some electoral trends that are not so dismissible.

Victoria Borwick selected for Kensington

The Deputy Mayor of London wins on the first round.

Iain Dale: The game, set and match case for sacking Jeremy Clarkson

Plus: The girls who went to Syria shouldn’t be prosecuted. Gorgeous Umanna. Kensington selects. LibDems wriggle. And: will UKIP win more than five seats?