Henry Hill: Scottish Conservatives put the spotlight on Covid-19’s constitutional consequences

Also: Welsh Labour demand less alignment with London on coronavirus policy; and Sinn Fein isolated in objecting to Army support in Northern Ireland.

Stephen Booth: The UK and EU should agree a deal this year. The implementation period is the tricky part.

With draft texts exchanged, it’s unlikely that the Government will seek out a Brexit extension.

Luke Evans: What I learnt from my own experience in intensive care with pneumonia about goals and setbacks

I’ve faith that people are focused on that bigger picture, which drives reported levels of understanding and appreciation, if not necessarily popularity.

Ryan Bourne: What is the Government using the shutdown for?

Absent a clearly articulated strategy business uncertainty will heighten, and severe non-compliance is risked

Daniel Hannan: The abuse, outrage and viciousness is hurled overwhelmingly at those of us who back ending the lockdown

A common threat, especially in the form of a pathogen, flicks switches in our brains, making us less tolerant of dissent.

James Frayne: Public opinion on the lockdown is a rapidly ticking timebomb

If employers consider themselves to be heading for catastrophe, it suggests that the wider public will catch up before too long.

David Gauke: The media is underestimating the patience, understanding and resolve of the public

Plus: let’s lift the Sunday trading laws – and my experience as a ten year old trying to buy a football from Peachey’s Newsagents on Woodbridge Road.

Iain Dale: Some political journalists seem set on making a drama out of this crisis without a second thought for the national interest

Plus: An outpouring of affection for Johnson. We reach Defcon Raab. The EU messes up (again). And: could Sleepy Joe wake up as President?

Henry Hill: Labour’s new leader sets the party against Scottish independence… but toward federalist folly

By taking refuge once again in his party’s only idea, Starmer puts himself behind even Gordon Brown in his constitutional thinking.

Garvan Walshe: Orbán’s emergency power grab is shocking. But it shows how isolated he has become.

Far from being confident, the Hungarian Prime Minister’s recent behaviour demonstrates a man who’s increasingly panicking.

Luke Evans: It feels here that this week is the lull coming before the storm that you hope will never arrive

I’m acutely aware that in our rural communities, where we are a few weeks behind major cities, knowing someone in hospital is more rare.

Robert Halfon: We will need a Remembrance Day to honour our Corona Heroes

Plus: And a Coronavirus Social Justice Minister. Give thanks for Starmer. And: it’s time for a Virtual Parliament.

Andy Street: What we’re doing in the West Midlands to combat the coronavirus.

If you really want to see how we’re pulling together, the best example is taking shape now at the NEC, outside Birmingham – the new NHS Nightingale Hospital.

Howard Flight: What the virus means for the City. And a watershed moment for the ECB.

It will take a vast New Deal of actual spending to lift Europe out of Coronavirus slump and head off a deflationary depression.

Iain Dale: Which Starmer will we get as Labour’s new leader this weekend? Radical Starmer? Or Safety First Starmer?

For his Shadow Cabinet, I would choose media friendly spokespeople, and back them up with deputies more on the policy wonkish side of things.