Stop the boats, abolish the Lords, and bring back the cane are among the policies urged by voters in the West Midlands.
She not only failed to find the words to win round her Tory opponents: she did not even seem to realise this was necessary.
The former Immigration Minister contends that the Government should instead require employers and universities to equip British workers.
But Tory Democracy has triumphed for much of our history since Disraeli, and can before long be expected to triumph again.
It is a childish fantasy to suppose that defenestrating the PM would lead to success at the polls.
Parents on modest incomes struggling to do the best for their children will pay the price for a policy which is supposed to hit toffs and plutocrats.
The PM and Chancellor are right to avoid the “jump to glory style of politics”, but this may only be recognised when they are gone.
The MP for Ashfield is sometimes in error, but neither he nor his supporters should be cast into outer darkness.
His manic energy and self-mocking wit recall the late, great Peter Sellers.
The shirkers-versus-strivers narrative around cutting the welfare bill fails to recognise the reality that a quarter of Britons have a disability, and one third have unpaid caring responsibilities.
Tory MPs have refused to go and canvas for their candidate, the girlfriend of the disgraced Peter Bone.
Efforts to deepen the purse of patronage are, at least in part, understandable. But yesterday’s headlines perhaps illustrate the downside risk for prime ministers who indulge too freely in so doing.
He also says that the Conservative Party “seems to me to be more strident than I am comfortable with, less compassionate than I am comfortable with, and verging on the xenophobic.”
The Prime Minister gives frequent, unobtrusive reminders that as a man of government he is highly impressive.
Frank Hester’s racist outbursts gives lie to the fallacy that we live in a post-racial society. It is an uncomfortable truth, but through acceptance we can start the process of building one.