Henry Hill: Sturgeon turns the knife as Corbyn undermines Labour in Scotland

Also: Reports of strong Tory performance and start of the Salmond trial casts shadow over the SNP; DUP claim they will have influence after the election.

Lord Ashcroft: Have you made up your mind yet? Will you put up with Johnson to get Brexit? Week Two of my General Election Dashboard.

My latest round of polling finds no signs of a seismic shift in opinion so far. We find a similar picture to last week’s.

Shona Haslam: With three weeks to go here in Lanark & Hamilton East, it is only going to get busier, colder…and crazier.

The Scottish Conservatives do need to build up our activist base. The SNP has been effective in building a loud and bold campaigning force.

Vox pub: Don’t write the Conservatives off in Stirling – and therefore in Scotland more widely

In this marginal seat there is as yet no sign of an SNP surge, and they may just be losing support to Labour too.

Neil O’Brien: There are still weeks to go, but for backbenchers like me, campaign 2019 feels much, much better than 2017

The campaign feels better run, including online. People massively prefer Boris Johnson to Corbyn. The question is whether it is enough

WATCH: Blackford: ‘We need to modernise our defence forces, Trident doesn’t play a part in that’

The SNP’s Westminster leader is asked whether scrapping the nuclear deterrent will be part of their price for putting Corbyn in Downing Street.

Henry Hill: Johnson ‘vows to end persecution’ of Troubles veterans

Also: Prime Minister mocked over claims Ulster goods won’t face checks; and he takes a tough line on Scottish independence as Corbyn swithers.

Fraser Raleigh: We must continue to campaign for the Union – and shun loose talk of trading off Scottish votes for English ones

As we champion the Union, we need to recognise that each nation is having a subtly different conversation with itself about its future.

The poor bloody infantry: why people join political parties

A new study asks good questions without providing good answers.

James Cleverly: As this election launches, it’s time for us to pull together – and deliver for Britain

Voters have a clear choice: vote Conservative or vote for further indecision, confusion and delay.

Matt Kilcoyne: The Conservative manifesto. Wooing Labour heartlands with socialist policy is a doomed strategy.

The first piece of a series this week about what the Conservative Manifesto should look like.

WATCH: If Scotland voted for independence, would Sturgeon demand a second referendum on the exit deal? “No…”

“I don’t believe we should equate the two things,” the First Minister argues.

Farage’s greed is Johnson’s opportunity. Why Conservatives should rejoice at the absence of a pact.

The two parties have different Brexit policies, and it would therefore be impossible for them to project a united appeal.

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.

The temptation to stuff Corbyn – or try to – is proving too great to resist

By pursuing an election at the expense of the Withdrawal Bill, Johnson is gambling on hammering Labour amidst the December gloom.