Alex Morton: May and the common or middle ground – are we to lead or follow?

Chasing the middle ground is based on showing that we ‘care’ – and that if you ‘care’ you have to intervene. But the interventions can make matters worse.

Henry Hill: Third SNP MP faces police probe into finances

Also: Davies claimes Jones is a danger to the UK; the Democratic Unionists hunt deals in Birmingham; and did Plaid accept a donation from Gaddafi?

Christopher Howarth: Brexit: Will Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales benefit from new powers?

Contrary to alarmist claims the devolved administrations will be the beneficiaries of a more vibrant UK and new responsibility, money and influence.

Nadhim Zahawi: Russia has to make a choice about its role in the world

Putin is doing all he can to back an evil regime in Syria.

Howard Flight: Negotiating a Brexit passport to success for the City of London

London is as important to the EU, if not more important, than is the EU market to London.

Iain Dale: Why I feel sorry for Sam Allardyce

Plus: I now love Liverpool. Getting ready for Birmingham. Come and hear me interview David Davis there. And: My most shameful secret revealed.

James Frayne: May’s conference speech should aim to destroy Labour

Now that Labour have chosen Corbyn to be their candidate for Prime Minister, it’s the time to start making the fundamental choices between the two parties visible.

Daniel Hannan: My one worry about Brexit – if we mess things up, we could harm relations with Ireland

In practice, though, it’s a wholly avoidable problem. All that’s needed is the political will to sustain our current partnership.

Rebecca Coulson: Cable-knit sweaters, Paul Mason and a No Prayer Breakfast. My week at Labour’s conference.

Momentum’s momentum doesn’t need to fizz with punch: they’ve won already.

Ex-SNP MP charged with fraud offences

Also: Scottish Tories win Labour defection and pitch for more; Welsh Labour attacked by Plaid for backing Conservatives on the Single Market; and more.

James Frayne: Helping motorists would make more difference to ordinary families than new rail lines

When was the last time a politician devoted a speech to making life easier for drivers?

Iain Duncan Smith: Sticking to the plan

We were told at the time that David Cameron’s Government had secured a reformed EU…which the same people now tell us Theresa May somehow prevented it from securing.

Andrew Kennedy: It will be no use training more activists if the training isn’t right

There is a danger that we will focus the new programme on technical skills, when what we really lack are the “soft skills” needed to maintain a voluntary organisation.

Iain Dale: A week in which I helped to make a bit of Israel-Palestine history

I’m told it was the first time that an official representative of the Israeli government and an official representative of the PLO had debated each other in this way.

Graeme Archer: Community and Identity

We don’t live in the frequency domain. I am 100 per cent gay, Scottish and Tory – and a near infinite number more such things – all at the same time.