Harry Fone: Whip withdrawn on Conservative councillors in Kent – for opposing Council Tax rise

Plus: Bean bags, ping pong tables, and padded pods, in Slough’s swanky new council offices.

Peter Golds: The Electoral Commission has rewritten the law to make it difficult to investigate vote fraudsters

It has, without consultation or a change in the law, slammed shut the principal way that investigating corruption of the register may be properly conducted.

Peter Golds: Voter ID for elections is long overdue

Consider the case of the man whose death was registered in Bangladesh on election day. Miraculously, his vote was recorded thousands of miles away in Tower Hamlets.

Candidates selected in Alyn and Deeside, Slough, and Blackburn

A chemical engineer, a jewellery entrepreneur and former Miss India finalist, and a nurse who fought Ebola in Sierra Leone.

Lee Pettman: In Slough, residents swung to the Conservatives – as we campaigned for a cleaner, brighter, and safer town

Despite our efforts, the national picture punished us. The problems for the party are top-down, not just with the leadership, but also CCHQ.

John Strafford: This election campaign was a disaster. The Party must be radically reformed to stop it ever happening again.

Activists were directed to seats which there was no chance of us winning. It is quite clear that CCHQ did not have a clue about what was happening.

Sunder Katwala: Will the Conservatives have more ethnic minority MPs than Labour after this election?

The Tories are making gradual rather than spectacular progress on ethnic diversity – as the party’s class of 2017 looks set to prove.

Selections today in Redditch and Exeter

Plus: we profile the latest tranche of newly selected candidates.

Exclusive. Full shortlist for the Isle of Wight. Bolton North East candidate replaced. Latest news.

Alicia Kearns joins Joe Robertson and Bob Seely in the island contest.

Election 2017: Karen Lumley and Andrew Turner stand down. Here’s the list of other MPs also doing so to date.

A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.

Daniel Hannan: Our electoral system is less secure than that of most banana republics

What possible reason could Labour have to vigorously oppose anti-fraud measures?

New funding to help combat election fraud in Tower Hamlets – and elsewhere

Sam Gyimah has been fighting the good fight.

Cllr Dexter Smith: Slough’s Children Services keep failing… and nobody ever apologises

Slough Children’s Services are being transferred to a not-for-profit Children’s Trust – and not a moment too soon.

The battle for Slough

The Liberal Democrats only have five candidates