ConservativeHome's Columnists: Welcome to the columnists page

Welcome to this new section of ConservativeHome.

We are delighted to have recruited seven excellent writers to each contribute a weekly column to ConservativeHome. Andrew Lilico kicks things off tomorrow with a discussion of choice.

Here are the magnificent seven:

Monday: Stephan Shakespeare co-founded the YouGov polling organisation and is the proprietor of ConservativeHome.com.

Tuesday: Andrew Lilico is an economist, Managing Director of Europe Economics and a member of the IEA/Sunday Times Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. He describes himself as a "Whiggish Conservative", by which he means he is a believer in the Whiggish Constitution, competitive market solutions, toleration of non-conformists, and ordered liberty.

Wednesday: Peter Franklin is a Conservative policy advisor and speechwriter specialising in environmental and social issues.

Thursday: Louise Bagshawe is the Conservative PPC for Corby and East Northamptonshire. Married with two children and a third due any moment, Louise is a novelist by profession. She joined the party at 14 and became a Conservative activist in 1997.

Friday: Theresa May was elected Member of Parliament for Maidenhead in May 1997. She is the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Shadow Minister for Women, having previously served in several Shadow Cabinet positions and as Party Chairman. Before becoming an MP, Theresa worked in the banking industry and was a councillor in the London Borough of Merton between 1986 and 1994. In Merton, she was Chairman of Education between 1988 and 1990 and Deputy Group Leader and Housing Spokesman between 1992 and 1994

Saturday: Cameron Watt is Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Justice. The Centre was established by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004 to learn from innovative grassroots poverty fighting groups in developing effective new approaches to tackling social breakdown.

Sunday: Graeme Archer is a bit of a waster, more kindly a delusional dreamer, and is on the board of not a single important body, unlike every other ConservativeHome columnist. He describes himself as "quite a bit fatter than my facebook photo would lead you to believe" and has no strong political views about anything. He writes mainly on scraps of paper which he then loses.