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.

Liam Booth-Smith: The lifting of the public sector pay cap is bad policy and worse politics

Ministers should remain focused on delivering on their promise to cut the deficit, even if it means paying the iron price to do so.

Janet Finch-Saunders: Welsh taxpayers spend millions each year subsidising trade union activities

This cost should come from members’ subscriptions.

42 per cent and no majority 2) The Party must make the case for conservatism to a new generation of voters. It hasn’t for too long.

As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.

Nick Denys: We must persuade voters that the Tories are the real workers’ party

If the electorate still credit Labour with being the party that cares, it will always have a short path back to power.

Iain Dale: My election prediction. May will be back in Downing Street with a Commons majority of 74 seats.

Plus: Where I was when the poll was announced. What I will be doing during the campaign. And: the temptation to seek to stand as a candidate tugs at my sleeve…

Conservative councils are still subsidising trade unions with Council Taxpayers money

They should also leave the unions to collect their own subs.

Keith Prince: How to end transport strikes while respecting workers’ rights

Binding pendulum arbitration has dramatically reduced the number of strikes in New York,

David Waddington RIP

The loyal Home Secretary with a sharp wit who did great service to the Conservative Party and the nation.

Spencer Pitfield: Copeland shows that the Conservatives are the true workers’ party

More important than Labour’s woes was that voters felt their jobs, employment rights, and pensions were safer in our hands.

Spencer Pitfield: Should the real battle with trade unions be over political affiliation?

The days are long gone when union leaders could do a good job for their members, while funding and influencing a political party.

Cameron Penny: Ministers should announce that they plan to use anti-terror laws to proscribe Aslef and the RMT

We don’t need more laws with anti-strike provisions – the Government already has the tools to deal with the transport crisis.

James Frayne: The Government is outmanoeuvring the unions

There’s no need for panicked action: new legislation is coming in, the right signals are going to the electorate, and as few potential converts are being alienated as possible.

Keith Prince: It is time to end strike action on public transport

Union barons on six-figure salaries deliberately causing inconvenience to passengers.

Chris Philp: Ministers must act now to stop railway strikes

We need new laws to cover transport and the emergency services.