James Cleverly: We need one last push, with your help, to deliver Brexit, stop Corbyn – and win

In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,

The BBC debate. Both men were given the chance to make an argument. Which is why Johnson won it.

At any rate, Corbyn’s supporters will find it hard to argue convincingly that their man did better. And if the polls are right, Labour needed victory more.

“The gap between a hung Parliament and a landslide is very, very small.” Kanagasooriam on the election’s closing stages.

We reproduce a further Twitter thread from the man who helped to advise Ruth Davidson on how to win in Scotland.

The campaign, week five. Johnson holds his ground – and aims to end next week where he began. With getting Brexit done.

Our nagging worry is: what about voters who may not want to get Brexit done, but are nonetheless apprehensive about Corbyn and John McDonnell’s tax plans?

WATCH: Labour will create an economic crisis if they win the election, warns Javid

The Chancellor says poor and homeless people have always suffered when Labour leaves an economic crisis, and a Corbyn government would be no different.

Anne Fennell: Why are the Conservatives, like the other main parties, against choice for families?

All these ‘family friendly policies’ are offered to mothers only if they agree to hand over care of their children to external settings and get out of the home.

Ben Roback: Trump should be seen but not heard

The visit has the potential to be an electoral gift to an increasingly desperate Labour Party. For Downing Street, a successful trip by the President will be one that causes as few political headlines as possible.

Vox pub: In Remain-leaning London, Johnson’s cause endures, and Umunna has found no passport to Pimlico

One drinker stood up for Labour and called the Prime Minister a liar. But during several hours of talk, nobody sprang to Corbyn’s defence.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour is doing better among its former voters than at this campaign’s start. Week Four of my General Election Dashboard.

But my latest 4,000-sample poll, conducted between Friday and Monday, finds little change in the overall picture,

Andrew Green: The Tories’ immigration policy is weak and could easily fail

The most serious risk of all is the clear possibility that the new regime will lead to a massive increase of immigration.

Neil O’Brien: Corbyn’s long and infamous record of retreat, appeasement and support for terror

They have spent their lives attacking the people who risk their lives trying to protect us from evil and dangerous people. And they lie as they try to cover their tracks.

Liam Fox: Now we must focus on getting Brexit done – and on Labour’s threat to wages, job and savings

Understandably, attention is concentrated on the London Bridge attack aftermath. But we must focus laser-like on all the essential issues.

A sign of the times. The remarkable quiet that follows Labour’s commitment to decriminalise abortion up until birth

It is not only pro-lifers who might jib at the United Kingdom acquiring one of the most permissive abortion laws in the world. 

Nick Hargrave: Meet Megan and David – who, with others like them, may determine this election result

If on election day they think the result is a foregone conclusion, then they are more likely to use their vote in different ways.

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.