Steve Mastin: The Shadow Education Secretary is failing to take her role seriously
During this crisis she should offer constructive advice. Not make false claims that state funding for schools is threatened.
Craig Dearden-Phillips and Norman Lamb: National Voluntary Service can rebuild the social settlement after Covid-19
British society has mobilised on an exceptional scale to meet the coronavirus crisis. We must forge this militia into a standing army.
Damian Green: It would be wrong, and a howling political mistake, to ask the over-70s to isolate themselves indefinitely.
The idea floated that they will have to be locked down for another year or 18 months whatever happens to the rest of the population will not be acceptable.
Bernard Jenkin: Keeping or junking the shutdown won’t work. But the alternative requires a transformation unparalleled since the war.
Parliament’s role must be to encourage strategic thinking, raise reasonable questions and help the government avoid strategic errors.
Iain Duncan Smith: Here’s to a quiet success in the struggle against the virus – the resilience and robustness of Universal Credit
The system has been able to withstand the enormous pressures of this pandemic, with more than 1.5 million new claims processed.
Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes: On balance, the pandemic strengthens the case for extending the Brexit transition
The choice could have profound consequences for the future of the UK economy, not just for next year but for decades.
Alan Mak: Help us recognise the contribution of British-Chinese people
They are the country’s third biggest ethnic minority, and make an outsized and positive contribution to our economy and society.
Mark Harper: We can’t continue the current lockdown while waiting for a vaccine – and need a recovery plan to get out of it.
We will need to significantly and rapidly increase our testing capability and our ability to link this to a contact tracing system.
Andrew Rosindell: Britain’s zoos and aquariums are endangered – they need our urgent help
I have serious concerns about the sector surviving this crisis. We cannot allow the worst to happen and our zoos and aquariums put at risk.
Terry Barnes: This miserable ghost. The embittered Turnbull memoirs – published without care for Australia at this time of national crisis.
It is incredible that he has allowed this attack on the Prime Minister’s integrity to be published now – amidst this existential global pandemic crisis.
Caroline Elsom: We calculate the astronomical cost of the virus as double the sum spent each year on healthcare
As in 2008, the line between survival and disaster will rest on the bond markets’ trust in the British Government and on the reputation of the Bank of England.
Robert Tyler: China is targeting our Commonwealth friends and allies. We need a united front against it.
It’s time that we all stood shoulder to shoulder together, and kept ourselves safe from outside interference.
James Wallice: Lecturer strikes and closed libraries. Why students aren’t getting value for money from universities.
We should be shortchanged no more. Either our colleges reform their financial systems, or lose whatever student support they still have left.
Liam Fox: League tables, death rates, bed numbers – and other mistaken media measurements. Let’s stick to the facts.
Often, these are not only hugely inaccurate, but paint a damagingly distorted picture which can influence public opinion and, through doing so, public policy.
Andrew Griffith: My constituency experience of those most affected by the shutdown.
To kick off the restart debate on a practical level, here are five areas to consider for the first phase of any amendment to the current restrictions.