Peel increased the burden of taxation on the rich – perhaps Sunak and Johnson will too

Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.

The “Tory press” are keen to show they will provide the real opposition to the Government

If the Daily Telegraph catches a whiff of threatened tax rises, it will offer pretty robust coverage.

Lee Rowley: North East Derbyshire was a forerunner of this election victory. Here’s what we did to win again.

For my colleagues who’ve smashed through the Red Wall – pick those bricks up and build anew.

The race for the first declaration in a night of political drama

It’s a contest between Sunderland and Newcastle. But even if Labour does badly in early results, how much will that tell us?

Richard Ritchie: It is futile to ask where political giants of old would have stood in today’s chaos

Over the past few decades our constitution has been so corroded that the likes of Powell, Benn, Crossman, and Foot would struggle to recognise it.

Daniel Hannan: Cameron maligns Brexiteers because he misunderstands them

The idea that self-government might matter to Johnson or Gove more than, say, party loyalty leaves him genuinely nonplussed.

Why the Left prefers condemning the Prime Minister to understanding him

Brainless tribalism led it to underestimate Johnson.

From magic circle to one member one vote: a short history of Tory leadership contests

The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.

Anger

Amidst verbal and actual violence, it is tempting to seek to shut down, say, Farage or Lammy altogether. But politics without anger would be impossible – and undesirable.

This hatchet job on Corbyn fails to explain why so many people voted for him

Bower writes him off as a loser, which is perhaps what he will end up being. But he did much better at the last general election than the commentariat expected.

Richard Ritchie: Brexit. Four great Commons debates that show how we got here – and what’s at stake.

That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.

Rebecca Lowe: Leave isn’t right-wing, Remain isn’t left-wing

Len McCluskey’s opposition to a second referendum is explicit, Seamus Milne’s Euroscepticism is unshakeable, and so on. The People’s Voters need Labour’s whipping power, but they won’t get it.

Lewis Baston: How Torrington launched the tradition of Liberal by-election shocks

Looking back, 55 years of Liberal and Liberal Democrat by-election success looks less important than UKIP’s two-year surge.

Sending up the Left is not enough. But it’s certainly a start – and Tom Harwood is doing it effectively

His satire on the NUS is highly enjoyable, but as he himself recognises, the Conservatives are a long way from finding messages to reach younger voters.

Corbyn is mounting a coup d’état against parliamentary democracy

His reforms will cripple his MPs and are a posthumous triumph for Tony Benn’s belief in extra-Parliamentary action.