Robert Halfon: We need more groups like Us for Them, one of the few campaigners for pupils’ rights during lockdown

The last year has been a national disaster for our young people. Never again should we shut our schools.

Andy Street: It’s time to energise England’s regions to tackle the climate emergency

Local leaders must be given the power to take greater responsibility in achieving net zero.

Bim Afolami: The big question facing Johnson. What does fiscal conservatism mean in an age of the big state?

My view is that the only way to help square this circle is to rediscover our concern for public service reform.

Sarah Ingham: The NHS failed the nation during the pandemic. Awarding it the George Cross was a mistake.

Furthermore, by allowing the Queen to do this, the Government has dragged the monarch into the political murk.

Garvan Walshe: Orbán, Le Pen, Morawiecki. Europe’s new national populist alliance is a sign of weakness, not strength.

Weakening at home and friendless abroad, it finds itself on the back foot – and exposed to its nations’ reliance on EU funds.

Emily Carver: Young people overwhelmingly think socialism is a good idea. Access to capital is the only way to change that.

Their idealism over this ideology is fairly superficial. Even so, Conservatives must do more to reverse the trend.

Daniel Hannan: The City was always going to survive post-Brexit. But now we must diverge from EU rules, and allow it to prosper.

Brexit doesn’t just allow the City to make its regulatory regime more competitive; it obliges it to do so.

James Frayne: Simple policies that would let Labour woo the Tories’ working-class voters

Starmer could show he understands the priorities of working class voters by spending more on universities and backing an English Parliament.

Richard Holden: Manufacturing (for Nissan) and football (fingers crossed) are coming home

Now the Coronavirus restrictions are lifting, it is time to focus on delivering what people voted for us to do, and double down on levelling up

David Gauke: The Duncan Smith-Gauke Alliance. We band together to back Universal Credit.

And: Some Southern Tories worried about winning Batley and Spen. Plus: my Love Island experience.

Henry Hill: Unionists’ court defeat shows scale of the challenge Johnson faces as ‘Minister for the Union’

Whilst the Prime Minister told the Commons he had not repealed part of the Act of Union, his lawyers argued otherwise in court.

Stephen Booth: The Northern Ireland Protocol. A crisis is averted. But for how long?

That Switzerland and New Zealand each have their own arrangements suggests that a bespoke arrangement ought to be possible.

Robert Halfon: Nearly a million white working-class disadvantaged pupils don’t and can’t have white privilege

The term pits one group against another and does more to damage race relations than enhance them.

Andy Street: Devolving more spending power can provide the skills we need to drive the recovery

Regional control over adult education is already helping to deliver significant results in skills.

Bim Afolami: What southern MPs in traditionally Tory seats should learn from Northern ones in the former Red Wall

MPs are starting to think of their seats in the context of their wider area, rather than simply as safe or marginal.