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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.

Some Tory candidates are back on the list – but others face further hurdles

Some will not learn their fate until the end of September.

Syed Kamall: CCHQ does not understand how to campaign in London – we need a whole new approach

The Party apparatus may be in the capital, but it is not connected with the city’s residents. We must reach out and engage.

CCHQ’s torture of Tory candidates continues

A few days ago, the candidates department accidentally led hundreds of would-be MPs to believe, wrongly, that they had been dropped from the list.

Adam Wildman: Having more Conservative women MPs is brilliant. But we now need a “WorkingClass2Win”

Only one per cent of Tory MPs were once manual workers. For a party that considers itself to be the champion of the Just About Managing, this is not good enough.

A big, big, big thank you to our readers for your help with candidate selection news

We could not have provided exclusive after exclusive without your phone calls, texts, e-mails and tips.

Centralisation and chaos – inside the rush to select Conservative candidates in time for the election

The snap election sparked a frenzied effort to get people in place across the country. The process left some candidates and activists feeling trampled.