Gerard Lyons: Britain must go for growth – which means lower taxes now

Ours are no longer competitive by global standards, and the Government needs a new supply-side agenda.

John Redwood: Ministers must hold professional managers to account for public sector performance

The present division of responsibility helps individuals avoid accountability, and taxpayers pay for it.

Bim Afolami: Get ready for interest rates to rise – with all the shock to homeowners, families and borrowers that will follow

We should never forget the millions of people who are “just about managing” – they will find it harder to budget over the next few months.

Sarah Ingham: People voted to take back control of Britain’s borders. The Government must now do so.

Policymakers should be asking themselves whose quality of life worsens thanks to the current unplanned mess.

Henry Hill: Labour should rethink its lamentable attitude towards Northern Ireland

Also: Drakeford strikes a deal with the Welsh Nationalists in Cardiff Bay; Sturgeon insists she’s going nowhere.

Garvan Walshe: Will Erdogan’s war against the financial markets be the end of him?

The next elections are set for 2023 – and the opposition fancy their chances so much that they’re calling for them to be brought forward.

Charlotte Gill’s Podcasts Review 5) Matt Chorley with Katharine Birbalsingh, Peter Whittle with Matt Ridley

In this feature, we look at some of the most memorable podcasts of the last few weeks.

Daniel Hannan: The Prime Minister is no more off-the-wall than he used to be. But his Peppa Pigg riff revealed his allies have changed.

It is always easier to laugh at the jokes of someone you like, and Rightist columnists no longer indulge their former colleague.

Emily Carver: Kate Bingham is right – the machinery of government is in trouble. It’s time Johnson proved he has a vision.

Unfortunately, ever-increasing public spending and green policies inspire little confidence in the Prime Minister.

James Frayne: What voters want when it comes to the Government’s levelling-up strategy

While most people can’t formulate specific policies, their views are useful in conceptualising them in broad terms.

Richard Holden: It’s time for the Government to make more of Tory MPs’ achievements and fewer errors itself

The Health and Social Care Bill contains some important measures that you won’t see splashed broadly across the mainstream media.

Peter Franklin: Our classicist Prime Minister must be a Hercules – and clear out Parliament’s Augean stables

The Prime Minister must get out in front of the issue — and deal with the whole mess before it buries him.

David Gauke: Oomph and optimism don’t always vanquish the doomsters and gloomsters

Here are six recent examples of how the Prime Minister has been mugged by reality.

David Willetts: New businesses, faster connections, better data, tighter security. There are so many reasons to commit to Space.

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Prime Minister’s boldest move to get us ahead in the new space race – the One Web deal.

Stephen Booth: How to gain the better regulation that we’re often promised but seldom get

Systemic reform is required, which improves incentives and changes the culture across government and within regulators