James Frayne: Step one in showing provincial English voters more respect. Clear up this Customs Union mess.

Given that they saved the Party’s bacon, you would expect senior figures to say and do whatever it takes to keep them on side.

Iain Dale: As I prepared for my Question Time debut, I heard that Diane Abbott had pulled out. Was it something I said?

Plus: May in trouble and Rudd in danger over Windrush. Corbyn stumbles. The pound rises. Local elections loom. And: the dignity of Neville Lawrence.

James Frayne: Stop and Search. Controversial, yes – but necessary.

One of the complaints that came up from the groups I ran – particularly from those from minority communities – is that some people get treated more leniently than others.

Robert Jenrick: Our initiative to win votes in the Midlands

Join us, and let’s do our bit to help our candidates and brilliant new MPs keep changing their communities and the country for the better.

James Frayne: The Industrial Strategy. Top marks for spin. Lower ones for content.

Gone is the Conservative certainty of reducing taxes to promote businesses’ own investment and growth.

Public sector payback time

Its awards consume roughly a quarter of public spending. It is hard to see where the tax hikes or spending scaleback to fund them will come from if the Chancellor sticks to his guns.

Nicky Morgan: You’re welcome to your new Democrat Party. I’m sticking with the Tories – to fight, fight and fight again for moderation.

We will push back internally when ideologues call for sensible Ministers to be sacked because they are trying to act in the national interest over Brexit.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to meet the Brexit Borders Challenge

The first article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

James Frayne: Five bits of advice that May’s new Communications Director should give her

“We’re badly trailing in the polls. Corbyn’s up and you’re down. You hired me to get things done and tell you how I see it. Here goes.”

The great Conservative student panic

The next manifesto might propose breaking the link between student maintenance costs and parental income by introducing a universal loan.

Richard Holden: How and why the LibDems went backwards in every English and Welsh seat they defended

With seven of their nine seats in England now held with majorities of less than eight per cent of the vote, the next election offers a chance to take them out for good.

The crucial difference between a non-win this month and the win in 2015 was the failure of the Tory machine

May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.

Nicky Morgan: This election, doorstep reaction – and why we must focus the Brexit conversation on economic security

Most people I’m meeting seem either pro-Leave or resigned to it happening – and believing that Theresa May is best-placed to see it through.

The real challenge isn’t sorting business rates. It’s ending that stubborn structural deficit.

The harsh truth is that, nearly seven years into Conservative-led Government, we are still living beyond our means.

Welcome, Nicky Morgan

A new fortnightly column from the former Education Secretary starts tomorrow.