Hollande is right about the EU

The French President was commendably honest when he responded to Farage.

Which organisation should be the official Leave the EU campaign? The answer is clear

The Electoral Commission will assess each campaign’s cash, competence and cross-party base. Elliott/Cummings are in the lead.

Farage’s iron grip on UKIP is strangling it

The contrast with the waxing fortunes of the SNP illustrates the importance of knowing when to pass the torch.

Iain Dale: Syrian Refugees – here’s what a true Compassionate Conservative would do

I’m not embarrassed to say that when I saw that picture of the four year old boy who drowned and was washed up on a Turkish beach I shed a tear.

Graeme Archer: Trump and the Brotherhood

We on the liberal Tory centre-Right must take apart the money-tree assumptions of the Left. But we must also turn on the voices of the populist Right.

Why doesn’t Farage trust his own MEPs?

The party’s two new spokesmen on economics and business are both unelected party officials.

Battlegrounds Revisited 10) The South East

The last of our profiles looks at a region that witnessed another Liberal Democrat extinction event and the undoing of the People’s Army.

Iain Dale: I am Farage’s election agent and a Lamb campaign activist. In my dreams…

Plus: Labour – Alastair Campbell v Labour failure. Tories – Dale v Massow? Labour again: Watson V Flint V Eagle V…. And: Roy Jenkins’s sex life. P.S: I’m getting married.

Interview: David Campbell Bannerman says that over half of Tory MEPs will join Conservatives for Britain

He also says UKIP has “tainted” the Out campaign, and predicts that the European Commission will “play dirty” with the referendum.

Planning an EU referendum campaign? Here are the three facts you need to know

Tony Blair is the least trusted voice on the issue. But Nigel Farage is the second least trusted.

From Reggie to Dessie: The toils of Sarah Newton. Pigswill for Rory Stewart. And is Kris Hopkins the Caring Whip?

Plus: The SNP take over a bar, a rumpus at Women to Win, no booze at Steve Hilton’s book launch…and from Russia with Love to Soames.

Downing Street’s plan for the EU referendum franchise – right, consistent and a gentle rebuke to Farage

Non-Commonwealth EU citizens living here won’t get to vote. That’s sensible, but it is also a test for the UKIP leader.

Sunder Katwala: Here is early evidence that the Conservatives are now winning more ethnic minority votes

A Survation poll commissioned by British Future finds that David Cameron’s party won a majority of Hindu votes – and also polled well with other Asian voters in the south.

UKIP in-fighting intensifies: O’Flynn “is totally inexperienced…A scribbler with a single tier education”

The People’s Army has a long history of knife fights. This one will get more bloody before it is over.

From Reggie to Dessie: Let’s raise a glass to the real architect of our victory – Nicola Sturgeon

So we are back at the Palace of Varieties with far more MPs than expected – and relatively few casualties.