Selections. Five more seats and the first ‘team seats’ open for applications.

Bath, Bishop Auckland, Bristol North West, Peterborough, and Wirral West are seeking candidates, as are several northern cities.

Stephen Purvis: A five point plan for a Blue North of England

I strongly believe that the region is poised at one of the most exciting and opportunity-rich junctures of its post-modern history.

Andrew Kennedy: The urban and northern challenge for our new Party Chairman, Patrick McLoughlin

If we are to be a truly national Party, we must have in place a structure which enables us to hear, absorb and reflect the views of the entire United Kingdom.

Simon Parker: Brexit wasn’t just about control. It was about people being left behind by the London elite

The focus on leaving the EU needs to be balanced by a powerful new Department for Growth, with a mandate to devolve power and drive up regional prosperity.

Liverpool, the Conservatives – and a last call for Heseltine

The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.

Matthew Barrett: Fifty years on, it’s time to tear up Greater London.

It is a relic of an out-of-date fashion for the big and artificial rather than the small, local and rooted.

Lewis Baston: How the electoral landscape has changed since the 1964 election – over 50 years ago

The Conservatives are stronger in the new towns, weaker in some some suburbs and more concentrated in the South-East – the cause and effect of changes in the party.

Greg Clark MP: The unflagging commitment of Michael Heseltine to the public good – in this, his ninth decade

Michael criss-crossed the country with me – something a former Deputy Prime Minister might have preferred to skip.