Youth membership of the Conservative Party extended up to the age of 25

The discounted membership is now more widely available; a welcome step in raising recruitment, but only the beginning.

David Jeffery: Why I am standing to be Voluntary Director of the Conservative Policy Forum

Our party’s ‘internal think tank’ has huge potential to engage new members, drive policy formation, and help us build and defend a ‘blue wall’.

Michelle Ballantyne: Why I’m standing to lead the Scottish Conservatives

We have allowed the SNP’s constitutional obsession to become our own. The voters deserve a more effective Opposition, and I will provide it.

John Penrose: Grassroots Tories, the Conservative Policy Forum needs you

Our Party’s internal think-tank offers has a crucial role to play in broadening our appeal and devising a winning policy programme.

How well is the Conservative campaign machine running this time round?

There are some signs of improvement, and some continued problems. Share your experience with us to inform our analysis.

East Staffs council leader alleges Party Board appointee’s oversight of Griffiths ballot is “unfair and prejudicial”

Cllr Duncan Goodfellow complains Lord Hunt’s message to the association “could be seen as seeking to fetter the independent and impartial decision of members”.

New candidate shortlists for Tory-held seats: Orpington; Bracknell; South West Hertfordshire; and Mid Sussex

Army officers, political advisers, businesspeople, a London Assembly Member and – unusually – a sitting MP are among the latest crop of finalists.

James to leave Parliament after finding her association don’t want her to continue as their candidate

Her letter to the Prime Minister emphasise that ‘we agreed on just about everything apart from Brexit…I trust in your One Nation outlook’.

The MPs we deserve

The speeding up of turnover rates has almost nothing to do with shifts to the right or left, and much more to do with wider cultural change in Parliament.

Exclusive: Walker resigns from the Party Board, amid rising tensions over centralised candidate selection

The Vice-Chairman of the ’22 served on the Board for nine years, and recently oversaw the leadership contest, so his departure is a surprise.

The Hertford and Stortford candidate selection: a shortlist, a controversy and a cautionary tale

We reveal the four candidates on tonight’s shortlist – and the unusual way in which the selection has been partially centralised.

ConHome snap survey: 90 per cent of Tory members want MPs to vote for the new Brexit deal

You don’t really get closer to unanimous than this in our surveys of Conservative Party members.

The Eddisbury Association votes to deselect Sandbach

She claims that there has been entryism – though the relationship between MP and activists has been bad for some time.

Revealed: The potential route back for some of the 21 Conservative MPs who lost the Whip

An obscure, unused agreement struck by Cameron and the 1922 Committee back in 2006 is set to come into play.

Wanted in Beaconsfield: a Conservative candidate

Grieve’s intention of standing in the seat as an independent makes it a test case for early selection and local choice.