Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.

Early steps towards a modern Swinton College

A low-key event with an invited audience next week will explore how to apply lessons and methods from the Party’s past to its present and future.

Rudderless over Windrush

May kept astride the Home Office tiger through relentless, grinding work and fearsome, dedicated SpAds. If Rudd can’t do the same, she risks being eaten.

Profile: Sue Gray, civil servant – and “the most powerful woman in Britain”

Reshuffles, reorganisations, investigations – the Director General of the Propriety and Ethics Team in the Cabinet Office is always in on the action.

Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. May tops it. Davis is second. And Davidson third.

Who would have predicted that Gavin Barwell, having lost his seat and ministerial position, would climb 63 places to number seven?

Norfolk North and Penistone & Stocksbridge choose their candidates. Latest selection news.

Latest news from round the country.

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

Exclusive. Aldershot, Chichester and Chester shortlist details. The man up against Farron. Latest selection news.

All the latest candidate selections, shortlists in key marginals and details of tonight’s contests.

Crosby was in charge of Cameron’s campaign. Will he be the master of May’s?

His great achievement two years ago was to sever the head off the Liberal Democrat snake – and most of the body too. Now he must defang it again.

The Conservative Research Department always wins. A guide to Downing Street’s top team.

It’s predominately a tight-knit group of former staffers who’ve worked together before. No change there. But it has a more provincial and state school feel.

Leave EU v Vote Leave. Complex details, simple choice. Do you want a UKIP-flavoured Brexit campaign or not?

The sooner all concerned grasp this, the better.

Does May’s closest adviser joining the Vote Leave campaign signal her intentions?

We floated the scenario of her going for Brexit last week. Speculation about her intentions will grow. As will the pressure for Boris to make his mind up.

Reasons to be Tory 14) Sheridan Westlake. And a bunch of other people you’ve probably never heard of.

On polling day, we honour the unknown heroes of this government – the Special Advisers, without whom little of what has been done would have been done.

The Party should apologise to Timothy and Parkinson – and put them both back on the Candidates’ List

The Public Administration Committee concludes that a key Party instruction to the two SpAds was in breach of the Code of Conduct that binds them.

LISTEN: Paul Goodman on the removal from the candidates list of the May SpAds

“The Cabinet Office really should have given some guidance here… they’ve made a mess of this.”