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.

The moral of Richmond Park. Don’t call unnecessary by-elections.

The result changes nothing on Heathrow – or Brexit.

WATCH: Zac Goldsmith on whether he’s the ‘de facto Conservative candidate’

He says there isn’t a Conservative candidate opposing him in Richmond Park because ‘local Conservatives feel as passionately and strongly about this issue as I do’.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn is outshone by a Welsh nationalist

An apology is in order to car park attendants. They could think up better questions than the Labour leader.

Mohammed Amin: I’m a Conservative, and voted for Zac. But I was disgusted by his repeated, risible attempts to smear Khan

Every Muslim member of the Party who discussed the campaign with me understood the messages in this way – as have many, probably most, non-Muslim commentators.

Heresy of the week: If concern about climate change is a religion, then Margaret Thatcher was its founder   

Perhaps the reason why environmentalism gets stuck with the religion label is because the issues involved are so vast in scope

How the remnants of the British Empire can protect the remnants of the marine environment

History and geography has handed our country a unique opportunity to fight back and protect vast tracts of the ocean.