Ryan Bourne: A view so radical that some simply won’t see it. The driver of our problems isn’t lockdown. It’s the virus.
Impacts on the margin shouldn’t be used to mask the big picture: private activity mimicked shutdowns before they happened.
Daniel Hannan: Why are so many Burkean Tories still backing this rolling forward of state power?
The government’s initial response was in fact admirably Burkean. The full force of law was used sparingly. And you know what? It did the trick.
James Frayne: More welfare spending. A business tax avoidance clampdown. The new economic policy that voters will want.
One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.
Our snap survey. Over half of our Conservative member panel backs Johnson’s plan. A third want a Sweden-style looser lockdown.
The Prime Minister has room and time to get the new policy right – at least as far as most Party members are concerned.
Raghib Ali: What I’ve seen as an epidemiologist on the Covid-19 frontline. And why it’s hard to see how the NHS now couldn’t cope.
I immediately volunteered to help out at the hospital, where I already had an honorary contract – as well as at the soon-to-open Nightingales.
Victoria Hewson: Trans guidance needs clarification. At present, it collapses under scrutiny.
Two recent cases show how easy it is for such documentation to be challenged.
What will Conservative MPs make of the Prime Minister’s new plan – not just this morning, but during the coming weeks?
The ’22 Executive has been pushing for a faster end to lockdown, and many Tory MPs agree. But they’re more likely to follow public opinion than lead it.
WATCH: Stay Alert. Control the virus. Save lives. The Government’s new plan – Johnson’s broadcast.
Relaxed outdoor rules from Wednesday – otherwise, a five-level assessment mechanism that could relax or intensify the lockdown.
Owen Paterson: Cameron’s Coalition was formed ten years ago today. It left us a message of hope that we should honour.
As a member of his first Cabinet, I was tested in Northern Ireland – as elsewhere the new government reduced the defict and reformed public services.
Liam Fox: The amendments that could kill free trade deals with America, developing countries and the Commonwealth this week
Take it from me that the US would walk away from talks if we tried to make the adoption of UK rules a precondition of any FTA.
Richard Holden: A call to CCHQ. Spare no effort to help us consolidate our breakthrough in the North East during next year’s elections.
I’ve noticed in my constituency that, to parts of the community, I am a disruption to the local natural order.
Ten questions for Johnson about his lockdown plan
The proposals he will announce this evening can’t simply be taken on trust by voters.
Darren Grimes: I won in court. There are no charges against me. The Electoral Commission is discredited. Now there must be a reckoning.
This is a regulator out of control – and we need a full review of the law, too, which is beyond the understanding of the institution created to oversee it.
Germany can teach us how to stop being a contemptible nation of supplicants
It is absurd and demeaning that we depend on Hancock, or on anyone in London, for the supply of hospital gowns.
David Gauke: Fairness and the lockdown. Why things must get worse before they get better.
Some areas, people and businesses must be allowed to get back to normal quicker than others – however unjust that may seem.