Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department

Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.

Elliot Keck: Johnson’s approach to the EU negotiation is straight out of The Office

Scott’s gamble is that it is in Wallace’s interest to wrap things up quickly – due to fears for his position. The Prime Minister is making a strikingly similar gamble.

Lee Rotherham: Knife crime can only be tackled by dealing with all the causes

Kids Count has just launched an important new audit, which is the precursor to a much larger study into knife crime reviewing cause and effect.

Jonathan Caine: It’s time for Sinn Fein to act decisively and leave the IRA behind

It’s deeply disturbing for many that a modern European democracy might shortly be led by a party that continues to have its strategy overseen by an Army Council.

James Blagden: How to level up – and get growth going across the whole of the country

We can’t continue to favour projects such as Crossrail over developing infrastructure in other parts of the country which generate much greater relative returns.

Rob Cooper: MPs must act to defuse the mortgage mis-selling time bomb

Sooner rather than later, they will find a growing number of constituents coming to them for help with this latest twist in the housing crisis.

Nick King: The Chancellor should look to Laffer for Budget inspiration and cut taxes

The Treasury often fails to recognise the potential benefits of lower taxes, because they don’t properly factor in how behaviour changes.

Andrew Boff: Ending the prohibition of drugs is becoming a mainstream view

Legalise the mainstream ones, such as cannabis. Decriminalise the more harmful, but lesser used, ones such as heroin.

John Redwood: Lessons for managing civil service obstruction from the Thatcher years. And my role as head of her Policy Unit.

There were plenty of Yes Minister routines and scripts to live through then as now. Much of the system did not like the privatisation programme.

Peter Ainsworth: The truth is that universities do not offer value for money

A large part of the financial return to the average student arises out of the loss the government makes on student loans.

Michael Farmer: The Government’s proposed changes to divorce law would weaken the family

Fewer marriages means more cohabitation, an inherently less stable relationship form. The Government risks ignoring the values of its voters.

Tim Pitt: Sunak should walk in Howe’s footsteps and make the Conservative case for tax rises

We are in danger of losing sight of the simple truth which has been a favoured phrase of Tory politicians through the ages: borrowing today is simply taxation deferred.

Mike Clancy: Ministers must not let no-win, no-fee legal culture into the workplace

Unlike litigious firms, trades unions such as mine have a long-term stake in the success of every company that employs our members.

Greg Hands: It’s time to get behind our push for free trade – as we begin to negotiate a deal with the United States

Our scoping assessment shows there could be a £15.3 billion expansion in overall trade between the two countries, an 18 per cent increase on 2018 levels.

Anthony Browne: Sunak should clean up the dirty diesel tax break

He could ban red diesel for non-agricultural uses in his first Budget, and achieve 75 per cent of the benefits with few of the drawbacks.