Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department
Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.
British politics begins self-isolation
It froze up during Brexit stasis, thawed when Boris Johnson won his majority – and is closing down again as the coronavirus advances.
Elliot Keck: Johnson’s approach to the EU negotiation is straight out of The Office
Scott’s gamble is that it is in Wallace’s interest to wrap things up quickly – due to fears for his position. The Prime Minister is making a strikingly similar gamble.
Grassroots members stand by Patel in our latest Cabinet League Table
The overall numbers are down slightly after the allegations against the Home Secretary and the Government’s defeat over Heathrow.
Conservatism is dying: the liberals have won
Ed West describes in his new book how the Left has established “a moral monopoly”. It describes the mentality of a Tory who will not be imprisoned in a system.
Our survey. Over half of Party members give a thumbs-up to fracking – so dissenting from Johnson’s manifesto.
They don’t believe that the Government’s moratorium on it is justified by the evidence about safety.
Iain Dale: I’m assertive. You’re a bully. Discuss.
Let’s say that Patel did, on occasion, shout – or lose her temper. Should that really be deemed unacceptable?
James Blagden: How to level up – and get growth going across the whole of the country
We can’t continue to favour projects such as Crossrail over developing infrastructure in other parts of the country which generate much greater relative returns.
Writing brief lives of America’s Presidents taught me that Trump is far from being the first outlandish one
Historians concentrate on such great men as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and ignore the more Trumpian figures who reached the White House.
Stephen Booth: We must not allow the EU to bind our hands in trade negotiations with other partners
Managing various parallel negotiating tracks at the same time will be a complex task, but it must be done.
Nick King: The Chancellor should look to Laffer for Budget inspiration and cut taxes
The Treasury often fails to recognise the potential benefits of lower taxes, because they don’t properly factor in how behaviour changes.
Coronavirus 1) We should ease the rules that restrict volunteering
Given that older generations will be most affected by an outbreak, we must encourage young people to volunteer their help.
Coronavirus 2) Ryan Bourne: Beware it being used as a cover for promoting socialism and protectionism
A home-focused industrial policy hardly saved China from this epidemic. And openness and markets ensure diversity of supply – particularly in medicine and food.
John Redwood: Lessons for managing civil service obstruction from the Thatcher years. And my role as head of her Policy Unit.
There were plenty of Yes Minister routines and scripts to live through then as now. Much of the system did not like the privatisation programme.
Daniel Hannan: How the Conservatives rushed to condemn a Conservative conference – at the Left’s bidding
That the Guardian illustrated its story with a photograph of Kawcynski speaking in front of the Star of David did not seem to give anyone pause for thought.