Nick Hargrave: Why a referendum and not an election could offer the new leader a Brexit answer
The seats that might back a No Deal offer for cultural reasons might well balk at it for economic ones.
Iain Dale: The stars are aligning for a Johnson premiership
Plus: Leadsom is a mensch. The Euro-elections may be a Conservative wipeout. And: my interview with Blair.
Henry Hill: Brexit Party set for strong showings in Wales and Scotland
In both countries, the votes of both Labour and especially the Conservatives have been squeezed between the Brexiteers and the separatists.
Garvan Walshe: How Strache and Farage use socialist techniques to con Tories
They’ve taken the central political technique of this form of populism — promising to spend other people’s money — and privatised it.
Robert Halfon: Our justice system is failing the survivors of sexual assault
My Harlow constituent described her life as having been served a “lifetime sentence” of psychological and emotional torment.
Nicky Morgan: Our country needs One Nation Toryism more than ever. And we will measure leadership candidates against its ideals.
I am clear that if the Party decides to focus its appeal mainly towards Brexit Party supporters, our demise will be swift.
Iain Dale: God help the UK Conservatives (so to speak) if they become religious fanatics – like the American Republicans.
Plus: The good and bad sides of Twitter – all in my week. How it may have helped to save a life. But also saw me slagged off for something I didn’t say.
Henry Hill: Mordaunt signals support for extending legal protection to Ulster veterans
Also: Davidson urges Tories to work harder for Euros; Bradley branded ‘unfit to govern’ by abuse victims; SNP turmoil deepens; and more!
Rachel Wolf: Twenty policy questions for the aspiring Conservative leadership candidates.
Lots of people want to know what the next Prime Minister will do for the country on everything other than Brexit.
Daniel Hannan: Eight reasons to vote Conservative in next week’s Euro-elections
Don’t imagine that the Party could be pushed into single figures in a national poll and then bounce back to beat Labour a few months later.
These Tory leadership candidates haven’t grasped the scale of the collapse of confidence in their party
No one has a prayer of bringing voters back to the Party if they don’t get on their knees and beg for forgiveness from the electorate.
Henry Newman: The Tory poll collapse is nothing to do with May’s Withdrawal Agreement. MPs should vote for it – and deliver Brexit
A basic problem remains unaltered – that there is no Commons majority for a No Deal Brexit. This point has been well made by Ann Widdecombe.
Chloe Westley: There’s a word for the “certain type of people” you brush off, Ms Rudd. Conservatives.
These are the people who give up their free time to knock on doors around the country, and take the heat for the Government’s failure to deliver Brexit.
Nick Hargrave: Modernisers may not trust Johnson, but they should learn from him
He knows that you don’t get to enact a vision for the country until you can thread it first with the fabric of your party.
Iain Dale: UKIP’s Sargon of whatever-he-calls-himself. Vile, yes – but he shouldn’t be barred from standing for election.
Plus: the Conservative share of the vote may fall lower than ten per cent in the European elections.