Profile: Ben Elliot, Co-Chairman of the Party, under fire for the seating plan which put Jenrick next to Desmond

This Johnson ally, who runs the party on the PM’s behalf, has two modes, charming and angry, and is a more serious figure than he looks.

Dean Godson: How the Conservatives divide on policy towards China

As with Brexit, much of the Tory family finds itself pitted against the permanent State on how Britain aligns itself in the world.

Interview: Lamont describes how the belief that Britain should leave the EU entered the Tory mainstream

Her told a meeting in 1994 that “it has recently been said that the option of leaving the Community [is] ‘unthinkable’. I believe this attitude is rather simplistic.”

Jonathan Sheppard: Tory Radio – back on air

People can listen by subscribing on all the major podcasting platforms from iTunes to Spotify, and of course feel free to get in touch editor@toryradio.com

Greg Hands: Crime will be the central issue in this year’s election for Mayor of London

147 people were murdered in the capital last year, the highest level since 2008. There were three knife crime murders in Fulham last year, in my constituency.

Election Battlegrounds 9) London

All three parties have a middling band of targets – what leaps out is how so many Cameron-era gains now seem out of the Tories’ reach.

Battleground Seats 5) London

Continuing our series on the key contests in each region and nation.

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

Four former MPs selected. Shortlist of two to take on Farron. All the latest candidate news.

Shortlists for Westmorland & Lonsdale, and Birmingham Edgbaston. Plus selections including Barrow & Furness, Ealing Central & Acton, Clwyd South and more.

Goldsmith reselected for Richmond Park

He now faces a battle royale to defeat the Liberal Democrat who unseated him back in December.

Exclusive: Richmond Park shortlist confirmed

Zac Goldsmith, Luke Parker and Laura Farris will fight it out tomorrow night.

Steve O’Connell: The Cost of Khan – the Mayor’s police numbers just don’t add up

Rather than finding the money to deliver on his pledge, the Mayor prefers to fail and blame the Conservative Government.

Lewis Baston: By-elections – and what has happened in those in which the MP has resigned his seat

The story of who won (like David Davis). And who lost (like Zac Goldsmith).

Rebecca Coulson: Beware wanting to surrender democracy. For once you’ve done so, you may not get it back.

Only in a place or time where you hadn’t witnessed the effects on people of a lack of choice might you be willing to countenance it yourself.

Jarrow goes blue! But May loses her seat! Yet it’s a Tory landslide! The amazing 2020 General Election.

We present dismissible projections drawn from last June’s results…and some electoral trends that are not so dismissible.