The task of choosing the final two runners must remain with MPs, who know them better than the members do.
Just as they had with Joe Chamberlain before him, the Tory leadership wooed Lloyd George to fatally fracture the Liberal Party.
His understated, unpretentious, unexciting style of politics works well in the context of local government. Could it be transposed to Westminster?
A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.
The work done in partnership with Baldwin, and by Chamberlain alone after 1937, gave Britain some of the best welfare services in the world.
Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”
Clearing up the last few pieces of formal political inequality has taken a century, but every step was taken under a Conservative or Coalition government.
May encourages Corbyn to take up primeministerial posturing.
His new thriller is readable, but lets the British Prime Minister and Establishment of 1938 off far too lightly.
She makes this case in her first publication, but is far too anxious never to cause anyone in the educational establishment any offence.
It was the brainchild of Rab Butler, set up to educate Tory members. 54,000 Conservative activists, agents and other students took courses.
The columnist Steve Richards examines the rise of the modern demagogues, and their eventual, inevitable failure.
She cannot be a stationary establishment figure when faced with the restless mood of the voting public. She must move forwards – or we risk a 1997-style wipeout.
The governments of the 1930s illustrate how little a huge majority is worth if it isn’t married to a strong and imaginative policy programme.
The Conservative Party’s official historian was speaking at the unveiling of a new statue to the former Party leader in his home town of Bewdley today.