Our at-a-glance guide to the Conservative manifesto

After a positive pitch from Cameron that led on housing and employment, here is a fuller list of what the Tories are offering the public in May.

WATCH: Cameron launches the Conservative manifesto – read it here

“We are there for you offering security at every stage of life. Yes, the Conservative Party: the real party of working people in our country today.”

WATCH: May explains the new right to buy programme

“What our manifesto is about is securing peoples’ future, giving them those opportunties at every stage of their life to have that security.”

Simon Richards: Why we need to put physical activity at the heart of a Tory government

Exercise is the miracle cure we’ve been waiting for. We just need to help more people do it.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: Northern Powerhouse, Midlands manufacturing, East Anglian life sciences – and recovery for all

We need to devolve to the cities and shires alike.

Cameron’s manifesto list borrows from the ConHome manifesto

Three of his priorities are jobs, housing and retirement. Our three are homes, jobs and savings.

James O’Shaughnessy: Eradicating childhood illiteracy should be at the heart of the next Conservative manifesto

One in five children leave primary school unable to read, write and count at an age-appropriate level. Save the Children’s new campaign aims to correct that.

Before promising tax cuts, repeat after me: The deficit hasn’t gone away

If we go into the next election with too much tax cut talk it will risk our reputation for fiscal responsibility.

Grieve suggests that we can’t both be in and out of the ECHR at the same time. He’s right.

For a government to legislate effectively to defy the court’s rulings while continuing to recognise its authority would be a contradiction in terms.

No clear answer yet exists about how to deal with UKIP

ConHome’s conference, Securing a Majority, grappled with the question of how to reach alienated UKIP voters.

Adam Corlett: The Conservative manifesto should take those in absolute poverty out of tax

It’s time to raise the NI threshold to the same level as that for income tax.

Tory backbenchers are involved in the manifesto for next year – but not in the one for a few weeks’ time

That the Policy Commissions are not in the loop for the manifesto for the European elections highlights the gap between Cameron and his Party on EU policy.

Priti Patel MP: An Etonian stitch-up? Rubbish. This is the most inclusive Conservative manifesto ever.

The Financial Times’s entire thesis would have been demolished by the facts – had the paper checked them.

Interview: Robert Buckland – “I do think we need to reform stop and search.”

The man in charge of home affairs policy for the ’22 says that Macmillan and Macleod are his inspiration.

Too many Etonians? Send for Halfon

The Harlow MP offers a solution to a complaint made by some of his fellow Conservative backbenchers.