National Insurance. A Cummings tax policy begins to take shape.
Put the commitment to an NI cut alongside the shelving of a corporation tax one, and one finds one of the Downing Street adviser’s main preoccupations.
Johnson’s critics will get nowhere by calling him a liar
Character assassination displaces comprehension, and so damages those who engage in it.
Garvan Walshe: You can’t eat the hashd al-sha’bi or fill up your car with Hezbollah. Iran’s theocrats hunker down as protests mount.
The seriousness of the uprising can be judged by the severity of the crackdown. Over a hundred people are dead, and the internet has been shut down.
Andrew Smith: The next Conservative Government can deliver for the North by investing in regeneration.
I hope that we will see more of the Chancellor during the campaign explaining how his plans can help support investment to boost productivity.
The first leaders TV debate. Why a draw was always going to be a win for Johnson. And that is what he got.
In football terms, Johnson played a high press and Corbyn relied on counter-attack. Neither scored.
Selections. How activists find themselves crushed by the attritional, grinding juggernaut of the Party machine.
CCHQ itself is also a victim of what it has helped to create. Here’s a way forward that should be acceptable to all.
Lord Ashcroft: Have you made up your mind yet? Will you put up with Johnson to get Brexit? Week Two of my General Election Dashboard.
My latest round of polling finds no signs of a seismic shift in opinion so far. We find a similar picture to last week’s.
Benedict Rogers: Do I support those hurling molotov cocktails or attacking policemen in Hong Kong? No. But I understand them.
They want to defend their way of life, their basic freedoms, their human rights, all of which they see as increasingly threatened by Xi Jinping’s brutal regime.
Vox pub: Don’t write the Conservatives off in Stirling – and therefore in Scotland more widely
In this marginal seat there is as yet no sign of an SNP surge, and they may just be losing support to Labour too.
Richard Patient: At last, the Conservatives have realised that the CBI is the voice of big business, not all business
The confederation has wielded considerable influence over the last 30 years. But other, more entrepreneurial voices, must be heard, too.
Jesse Norman: The root of the financial crisis can be traced back directly to Brown and Labour
One essential Bank of England chart illustrates what went wrong, beyond reasonable doubt.
Andrew Wood: We need a strong defence in an uncertain world
As a new manifesto is being finalised, it is time to review how our 2017 commitments on defence have worked out.
Childcare policy should support all parents with children – not just those who work in the labour market
By putting money into the hands of parents, in effect, such help would help to drive the demand for childcare of all kinds, formal and informal.
Neil O’Brien: There are still weeks to go, but for backbenchers like me, campaign 2019 feels much, much better than 2017
The campaign feels better run, including online. People massively prefer Boris Johnson to Corbyn. The question is whether it is enough
The Prince, the poll and the people
The relative downsizing of election news is likely to freeze the current campaign in aspic. That ought to help the party which leads in the polls.