Robert Syms MP: After the victory – why the polls were wrong

Pollsters should have had follow-up questions to UKIP and Green supporters to assess their likelihood of switching to their preferred main party choice.

From Reggie to Dessie: The toils of Sarah Newton. Pigswill for Rory Stewart. And is Kris Hopkins the Caring Whip?

Plus: The SNP take over a bar, a rumpus at Women to Win, no booze at Steve Hilton’s book launch…and from Russia with Love to Soames.

Henry Hill: Northern Ireland Assembly back to the brink over welfare reform

Also: Welsh Assembly in revolt over plans to increase members’ pay; and Carmichael at risk of recall for leaking Sturgeon’s Tory sympathies.

Train travel is on the rise. But where is it going?

It’s a question that Parliamentarians will have wrestle with for the next five years and beyond.

Select committees need mechanisms for English business

The SNP are now entitled to substantial committee representation. If EVEL is to mean anything, it must extend beyond the chamber.

Iain Anderson: Cameron should offer Sturgeon full fiscal autonomy with transitional relief

Could the SNP refuse such an offer?

Charles Tannock MEP: Now is the time to reform the Lords

The General Election result has big implications for the future of the second chamber.

WATCH: Nicola Sturgeon reports there were “no high fives” at her meeting with the Prime Minister

Scotland’s First Minister denies sharing some satisfaction with David Cameron at Labour’s defeat.

Matthew Sinclair: The election result shows First Past The Post is working precisely as intended

Under our system, coalitions are effectively agreed within parties before the election. Under PR, the Government’s programme is stitched up after voters have had their say.

How Scotland beat the other countries at voting

Did last year’s referendum encourage young people to back the SNP?

Daniel Hannan MEP: How the Left’s hatred devoured its own election campaign

Labour could have done better with a different leader and a different strategy. But its error was its usual one: to assume moral superiority

The Blair way back? Labour’s big tent is being pulled apart

Thursday again proved that Labour cannot win from the left. But the voters who once made up their winning coalition are now deeply at odds with each other.

Exit poll, exit United Kingdom?

To prevent the strain on the UK from reaching breaking point, Cameron needs to make a big, open comprehensive – and federal – offer.

Early tomorrow morning, will Cameron make a dramatic offer to the SNP?

How a federalist offer on Scotland could turn expectations on their head.

Graeme Archer: Polling day, in three chapters

Two things to vote against, and one to vote for.