Iain Dale: Let’s send pro-reform, bone-dry Theresa Villiers to Brussels

Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.

WATCH: Lord Ashcroft visits Normandy, where his father fought on D-Day

“This is probably about the exact spot where my father came ashore, somewhere around 7.25am on 6th June 1944.”

Andrew Marshall: We may be losing Eastern European voters for the next 50 years

Just as we failed to turn immigrant voters Conservative in the ’60s and ’70s, I fear we’re repeating the mistake today.

Hague joins his colleagues in the intensive battle to hold Newark against UKIP

The Conservative Party has flung every minister, MP, candidate, activist and aristocrat it can lay its hands on into this fight.

WATCH: Lord Ashcroft addresses the ConHome conference

Next year’s election, he warns, should not be fought on last week’s issues.

Lord Ashcroft’s speech to the ConservativeHome conference

Details of the battleground mega-poll of 26,000 voters in 26 Conservative-Labour marginals.

Lord Ashcroft: We don’t yet know how many people voted UKIP in the European elections – but here’s what they think

I surveyed 4,000 people who took part in the European election. Turns out, two-thirds of UKIP supporters believe Cameron is the best available Prime Minister.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour lead by six points in my latest poll

They’re on 35 per cent, up three points since last week. The Tories are down five, on 29 per cent.

Stephan Shakespeare: How the Prime Minister could be ousted in 2017

It was one thing to have a new constitutional arrangement for five-year terms in 2010. It may be another if everyone is tired, unhappy and rebellious in 2015.

The polls with a pinch of salt (reprised)

Four at the same time showing the Conservatives and Labour battling it out for top billing is worth noting

Lord Ashcroft: In the first of my new national polls, the Tories lead by two points

This inaugural weekly telephone survey has the Conservatives on 34 per cent and Labour on 32 per cent.

Lord Ashcroft: With only one year to go, here’s what the parties need to do

The next General Election is only a year away. Politicians should be treating the voters as grown-ups.

The Conservative Party is about to become debt-free – here are the people to thank

They include Andrew Feldman, whom, one minister told me, ought to be recognised as “one of the five most important Tories in the country.”

Lord Ashcroft: Should we leave the EU? Britain isn’t sure, either way

My latest poll of 20,000 people shows similar numbers wanting to leave and to stay put – among other findings.

Lord Ashcroft’s EU research event will give an insight into how the referendum may be won – or lost

A focus group can never tell you what to think – but it can tell you how to persuade others.