EXCLUSIVE: Draft new Conservative Party Constitution revealed – including further candidate selection centralisation

The proposals also include making a youth movement only optional, not a requirement, for the Party.

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

Alexander Temerko: The Conservative Party needs reform from top to bottom

Party members should elect our next Chairman and other key figures. Through this process, we will be able to identify talented candidates and platforms.

The average age of Conservative Party members is 57 – four years older than Labour ones

Twenty four per cent of Bale’s Tory respondents were between 18 and 44, four points lower than the number of his Labour respondents of the same age.

Nicky Morgan: Party members are fed up with being sidelined. And six other lessons from Manchester.

There was a genuine sense of grievance that policy suggestions and campaigning ideas are never listened to.

The hollow hall

Conservative Party Conference is not really a conference at all. The audience are a source of obedient applause, not trusted to speak or vote – and they know it.

The Pickles Review. As expected, he doesn’t rock the boat. But he gives it a nudge (and then some).

The most startling element is its one big dive outside the workings of the Tory machine: he wants the leader’s powers to draw up the manifesto to be reined in.

Conservative Party membership “is down by a quarter”. Will it drop below 100,000 next year?

There has been radio silence from CCHQ since 2014. Any organisation that won’t declare a figure has the smell of decay about it.

Robert Halfon: It’s time to bring democracy to the Conservative Party

If new members realise that they have no real say in making their new party one that really works for everyone, they won’t remain members for long.

Helen Harrison: May’s Florence speech 2) It was bad – and activists must speak out against these feeble, careerist, pro-Remain ministers

Here’s the irony: if we bite our tongues and say nothing, and if Brexit is lost, we lose the next election anyway.

Twelve tests for the Pickles/Brady Conservative Party review

ConservativeHome’s proposals for Party reform, to avoid a repeat of the miserable snap election result.

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part three: What can be done to fix it?

After exposing the flaws in the Conservative campaign operation, we propose 12 reforms to help to avoid repeating such failings in future.

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. How and why the ground campaign failed.

Activists were asked to trust in a targeting analysis that proved to be based on flawed data and assumptions that were overturned by the manifesto.

We warned CCHQ that something like ‘Activate’ would happen

As long as the Party refuses to run a Tory youth organisation properly, third parties will exploit the gap and put its image at risk.

National Conservative Convention election results announced

But, as ever, most members won’t have known there was an election on – or had a vote on who will “lead the Voluntary Party”.