Matt Kilcoyne: The Conservative manifesto. Wooing Labour heartlands with socialist policy is a doomed strategy.

The first piece of a series this week about what the Conservative Manifesto should look like.

Joel Roberts: Conservatives risk a rout in London if ‘getting Brexit done’ is our only message

We win elections when we appeal to a broad swathe of voters. The Prime Minister was a popular Mayor in the capital, he must retain his instincts from that time.

Shaun Bailey: Delaying Brexit is a useful distraction for the Mayor of London

I am determined to refocus the conversation: to how we bring crime levels down; and build the homes we desperately need.

Susan Hall: The Prime Minister is serious about defeating the drugs gangs. But the Mayor of London is not.

Thousands of teenagers are exploited through County Lines. The Metropolitan Police force area is the largest exporting hub to the rest of the country.

John Myers: Blair is still refusing to apologise for holding down the housing supply

The former Prime Minister pretends the threefold rise in house prices during his term in office was inevitable. Not so.

Melanie Hampton: It’s the small things that provide satisfaction in being a councillor

You may smile; how can this woman take such pride in providing a bin at a bus stop? Well, she does.

Tim Briggs: Why London is mostly a left-wing city

People who aspire to own their own homes move out of London to where property is cheaper.

Rupert Myers: Stewart has left the Party. But here’s why other moderates must stay, keep faith – and change it for the better.

Do not mistake the current intolerance of pro-European voices for power: it is a sign of the brittle fragility of a current leadership which is running out of options fast.

Maybe it’s because he’s a Londoner that we love Rory so

At first glance, his quest for the city’s mayoralty as an independent is merely eccentric. But it is also a logical next step for an ambitious man who is above all a soloist.

Gareth Bacon: Mapping the Mayor’s failings

An independent report has found that endless promises in City Hall are not backed up by action. 227 pledges on policing have proved completely meaningless.

This was the old, cuddly Boris – not the new, Trumpish Johnson – but with a difference. He was remorselessly on-message.

There is a sense with all Johnson speeches that he is somehow parodying a politician making one – that the whole thing is done tongue-in-cheek.

Neil O’Brien: How to rebalance Britain’s unbalanced economy – by levelling up, not levelling down

Ever since the EU referendum, there’s been renewed focus on how to help poorer places. Helpfully there is decades of evidence about what does and doesn’t work.

John Myers: We do not need to give up on places that have fallen behind

If we are serious about rebalancing, we could move the capital from London to Manchester.

Ryan Bourne: To help grow prosperity, let’s focus on people and not places – such as towns

Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.

James Frayne: Why a populist programme wouldn’t work for Johnson. Working class voters aren’t values votes.

Middle class hostility to the working class and lower middle class is common, while working class and lower middle class hostility is practically non-existent.