Henry Hill: If the DUP suffer an electoral collapse, it could bring Stormont grinding to a halt – again

Also: SNP’s nuclear hypocrisy forces MoD to consider relocating Trident even though an independent Scotland would join NATO.

Julian Brazier: The Integrated Review is groundbreaking, but doesn’t go far enough in addressing the Army’s weaknesses

It can become the best again, but only if the land forces element is revisited in the Government’s proposal.

Daniel Hannan: Does the army really still need tanks? Or the navy aircraft carriers? Or the rest of us, the Trident system?

Let’s have a no-holds-barred strategic review which asks how we can best defend our interests given the vertiginous acceleration of military technology.

Allan Mallinson: What is the army for?

The Cabinet Office’s Review will ask complex questions about its purpose. But a straightforward one may be the place to start.

WATCH: Scrapping Trident is a red line issue for the SNP, says Sturgeon

She warns Labour that getting rid of Trident missiles is a condition for any deal after the election.

WATCH: Blackford: ‘We need to modernise our defence forces, Trident doesn’t play a part in that’

The SNP’s Westminster leader is asked whether scrapping the nuclear deterrent will be part of their price for putting Corbyn in Downing Street.

“No-one voted for Brexit to become poorer.” Really? We vote to deny ourselves money all the time.

Security, cohesion, integration, solidarity: all are intangible. But we pay – literally – to gain them. Why single out self-government?

Williamson on manoeuvres

The new Defence Secretary’s rawness may make him more likely to dig in against the Treasury than otherwise – precisely because he has a point to prove.

Rebecca Lowe Coulson: Why the case for nuclear deterrence needs to be made all over again

This is important not only because without arguments we are weak in the face of our adversaries, such as Corbyn, but also because we must keep checking that we’re right.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May plays cricket, Corbyn plays Glastonbury

The Prime Minister showed that on her home turf, in the Commons, she is still a very difficult woman to get out.

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.

WATCH: “Answer the question!” Corbyn heckled as he ducks and dives over nuclear weapons use

“Do you want to comment on that?” Dimbleby asks the Labour leader, as the latter’s stance is criticised. “No.”

A great swathe of Labour’s core vote will loathe the party’s Brexit and migration plans. Now Crosby must make them known.

Corbyn’s Michael Foot tribute act gives the Conservatives the potential to secure a landslide by winning over the patriotic working-class vote.

James Frayne: What are main vulnerabilities in this election for the Conservatives?

Why spend money on grammars, rather than dealing with school overcrowding? And why back Trident rather than the Navy’s conventional fleet?

Daniel Downes: Beware of what you wish for – in this case, an election landslide

The message is one of strong and stable leadership. But what does it actually mean?