Sorry, Matthew, but there’s a Centre Party already – Johnson’s Conservatives

The centre isn’t where he or ConservativeHome or anyone else wants it to be. It’s where it is – “Far From Notting Hill”.

The Lib Dem local election effort will focus on the districts

The second in a series of pieces on ConHome this week’s looking forward to the elections this spring.

Election Battlegrounds 4) East of England

Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.

Local elections: The Conservative/Lib Dem battlegrounds

Could the Yellow Party take control of Lewes, St Albans, Winchester, Teignbridge, Guildford – even Wokingham?

Greater safeguards for Council Tax debt collection promised

In St Albans and North Warwickshire a less draconian approach has proved effective. The Government wants others to follow suit.

Syed Kamall: The electoral disaster that will engulf our Party if we don’t boost our ethnic minority support

Once a seat reaches 30 per cent BME population, it goes Labour. In 2010, this applied to 75 seats. By 2022, it could apply to around 120 seats.

Could Muslim votes really decide the Conservatives’ fate?

Some figures, courtesy of Ian Warren of Election Data.