Profile: Robert Jenrick, who rose without trace until he hit two bumps in the road

If the Housing Secretary is to survive, he will have to learn the art of sometimes saying no to property developers such as Richard Desmond.

Konstantin Kisin’s Twitter thread on how woke culture risks a far right backlash

“From here, I’m afraid, the journey is all too obvious. The only way to prevent this is to reverse the re-racialisation of our society.”

Europe 2.0? How divisions over devolution could stall the Tories’ march on Cardiff

The Party is keen to keep a lid on the issue ahead of next year’s Welsh elections, but disaffected activists and challenger parties are putting it on the agenda.

The Government’s democracy commission, “legal tools” – and boats of illegal migrants

The nub of the matter is that without changes to the law the entrants will keep coming to Britain.

“If you go ‘transgender rights are our big thing’, you are going to lose that culture war”

How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.

Mark Wallace: How Eurosceptics survived the wilderness years, and returned to win the day

The second piece in our mini-series on the road to Brexit explores the challenges which the anti-EU movement overcame to survive and then thrive.

Could Farage’s ‘Reform Party’ carve him a new role in post-Brexit British politics?

His ‘Contract with the People’ makes an effort to stake out some new territory for the People’s Army, but he faces an uphill climb.

The poor bloody infantry: why people join political parties

A new study asks good questions without providing good answers.

Our survey. Just over half of Party members agree with Trump – and want a Conservative/Brexit Party pact

It is perhaps not surprising that a majority of activists believe, however narrowly, that it makes sense to work with another party that wants to leave the EU.

The MPs we deserve

The speeding up of turnover rates has almost nothing to do with shifts to the right or left, and much more to do with wider cultural change in Parliament.

Iain Dale: Swinson’s revoke policy disincentivises more Conservative defections

Plus: Why won’t Corbyn come on LBC and give an interview? He hasn’t done once since becoming Labour leader.

Ten questions about entryism in the Conservative Party

Claims about an organised, hostile takeover of the Party have reared their heads again. Is there any truth to them?

In praise of Conservative Party members

“Spot on” policy questions to Johnson and Hunt in Birmingham yesterday showed Tory activists as they really are.

George Freeman: Our new book. In which forty Tory MPs band together to help revive conservatism.

Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.

James Frayne: The five essential tests to weigh up Conservative leadership candidates

Plus a sixth, less formal, question: are they ridiculous?