Richard Ekins: The repeal of the Fix-term Parliaments Act is essential for restoring faith in our democracy

However, the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill must be strengthened.

David Gauke: These results show the Conservatives set for success in the 2020s – unless their opponents can adapt

In England, the Tories have monopolised support on the Right, while the Left vote is split between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.

Interview: Goodhart says Johnson understands better than Starmer that a graduate meritocracy alienates manual workers

The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.

James Frayne: Our national political conversation is unrepresentative. Metro London is heard loud and clear. The provinces, scarcely at all.

They don’t talk about politics in daily life; don’t write to local or national newspapers; most importantly, they’re not politically active online.

Phoebe Griffith: Like Hannan, I have lived in Peru. But my take on its recent story is very different.

The legacy of the Fujimorista regime has shaped Peru to this day, and has been far more pervasive and corrosive than General Velasco’s.

“This will most likely be the last time I will speak at length as Prime Minister…” – May on the state of politics

The Prime Minister deplores the “rancour and tribal bitterness” of modern debate, and criticises politicians “making promises you cannot keep”.

Nicky Morgan: The danger of Putin and the danger of populism

Our future Conservative Party leadership needs to address quickly and effectively the problems which have led to the latter’s rise.

ConservativeHome’s leadership election panel. “The next Tory leader’s task is to fashion a home for “decent populists”

Each week, our panel of John O’Sullivan, Rachel Wolf, Trevor Phillips, Tim Montgomerie and Marcus Roberts will analyse and assess what’s happening.

Andy Street: My seven tests to find the right Prime Minister for the West Midlands

They are chosen not from a factional or ideological standpoint, but from what I see while doing the job of Mayor.

“Populism of left and right poses enormous risks to this country’s prosperity.” Gauke’s speech to Onward – full text

“The disenchantment of the traditional working class with the left clearly creates an opportunity for the right.”

Six cautionary lessons from Macron’s France

Maybe this new-party-with-a-charismatic-leader thing isn’t as easy as people imagined.

Jonathan Clark: Representative democracy is waning, direct democracy is waxing. So its MPs themselves who will “come to heel”

The object of the exercise is to absorb within a stable democratic practice a new element which, if unabsorbed, may have fatal effects.

Nick Hargrave: In an age of post-truth politics, moderate politicians must prepare to work across party lines

I have reluctantly concluded that there needs to be greater regulation of the veracity of claims made by registered participants in political campaigns.

WATCH: Grayling repeats his warning about the threat of extremism if Brexit is halted

“What we will have is the arrival in this country of the sort of populist politics on the extremes that we’re seeing in most other European countries.”

Grayling, Patten, the Far Right, the IRA, Brexit, the Speaker – and the difference between a threat and a warning

If two men are in a car, and the passenger says to the driver: “Look out! You’re going to crash,” he is shouting out the second, not the first.