James Frayne: The Conservatives need to attack Labour this autumn. Here are five ways of doing so.

With the stakes as high as they are, the Tories need to throw the kitchen sink at the Opposition to drag themselves ahead in the polls.

A Conservative electoral choice post-referendum. ABs or DEs?

Do they become the party of the provincial working class and lower middle class? Or do they fight to maintain their status as the party of the affluent middle class?

George Trefgarne: The Conservatives must stop indulging in class warfare

Embracing this crude Marxist fiction has put the Conservative Party at risk of lasting electoral damage, particularly in London.

Revenge-and-tell? Perhaps. But Nick Timothy’s return to journalism promises much more.

For all his manifesto mistakes, his core take is correct. The key people in elections are who he has always said they are: lower middle-class, provincial, home-owning voters.

James Frayne: Ten key points about the lower middle class, provincial, home-owning voters who decide elections

C1/C2 voters are hugely important in raw numerical terms. They make up 52 per cent of the electorate in England.

The crucial difference between a non-win this month and the win in 2015 was the failure of the Tory machine

May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.

James Frayne: Let’s stick with May for the moment. But prepare to replace her with Johnson.

He isn’t perfect – and acclamation isn’t the ideal method. But the Conservatives face a crisis and must take action accordingly.

James Frayne: How free marketeers should respond to May’s interventionism

Other than saying, “the state should stay out of things”, they haven’t had much to say. This must change. They need to set out how they’d do things better.

Alex Morton: May must keep the Conservative coalition of liberals, Tories and others together

If she tries to work through populist edicts and diktats, she will fail. And if the Right argues that a few tax cuts for the richest will solve our problems, this will be no better.

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.

Dean Godson: Has May conquered class politics for the Conservatives?

Gender, race and sexuality dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation. The Prime Minister is now scaling the most challenging peak: class.

James Frayne: May, not Cameron, is the real heir to Blair

Those looking to find what she really stands for may one day get an answer. But the point for the here and now is: she seeks to dominate the mainstream.

Alex Morton: Pro-immigration. Anti-Small Business. Pro-EU. And anti-Tory. The irresistible rise of the New Professional Class

The core of their beliefs is that elite expertise is preferred and believed superior to messier concepts such as the market or democracy.

Nicky Morgan: It’s time to focus on white working-class boys – whose needs are neglected in too many schools

Low aspirational parenting and teaching are key problems.

Graeme Archer: Labour’s plight – and why it is the Blairites for whom I feel the least pity

Let the leftover Blairites retro-absorb the LibDems: there’s your centre-Left. Most of the rest of usare quite happy to be governed by the centre-Right Super Party.