From magic circle to one member one vote: a short history of Tory leadership contests

The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.

Jonathan Clark: It may not happen – but we should prepare for a constitutional crisis this autumn

A Prime Minister might, in the autumn, ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament until the day after exit is legally due on 31 October.

Garvan Walshe: How Strache and Farage use socialist techniques to con Tories

They’ve taken the central political technique of this form of populism — promising to spend other people’s money — and privatised it.

If May isn’t on her way out by the end of today, don’t back her in tomorrow’s European elections

The 1922 Committee Executive has already pointed her towards the exit door.  It should now take her gently by the arm, and steer her through it as soon as possible. 

Profile: The unusual Rory Stewart, self-declared contender for the Tory leadership

His critics claim his appointment as International Development Secretary “could lead to the death of thousands of the world’s poorest people”.

Richard Ritchie: Brexit. Four great Commons debates that show how we got here – and what’s at stake.

That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.

Mark Stockwell: Sunk by rolling news and social media, Question Time is dead. Even Fiona Bruce can’t bring it back to life.

I like Fiona Bruce. I hope she can pull the programme out of the doldrums. But I fear its time has past.

Ayesha Azad and Mark Pengelly: In Woking, we are determined that council tenants must have the chance of home ownership

Our innovative Earn Your Deposit Scheme would give the young a real chance to get on the housing ladder.

Hard lessons for May from leadership contests of the past

Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”

WATCH: Heseltine – “the case for sacking Boris is very strong”

Except, the former Deputy Prime Minister adds, that “the danger of doing it” is “perhaps a bigger risk”.

Iain Dale: As May speaks in Florence, I’m here in Berlin – watching Merkel preparing her own return to office

Plus: Osborne’s regrets, vintage Heseltine – and, after Germany, to Brighton, for what is claimed to be the biggest conference Labour has ever held.

David Jeffery: How divisions among Leave-backing MPs helped May to win the last leadership election

Those who voted against same-sex marriage were more likely to support Leadsom than those who voted for the legislation, whilst the opposite was true for Gove.

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

WATCH: Heseltine blames Brexit

He calls it a “cancer at the heart of the Conservative Party”.

Peter Lilley: That £350 million figure. The EU’s negotiating position shows it to be less of an exaggeration than has been claimed.

It makes spending commitments which exceed the amounts it budgets to spend. Those escalating commitments…will approach E250 billion by the time we leave.