WATCH: Shapps hails “light at the end of the tunnel” for reopening international travel

The Transport Secretary also predicted a post-Brexit boom, “if we use these new freedoms wisely, if we think and act like more of an up-start nation”.

New event: ‘Back to Business – reopening international travel’, with Grant Shapps

The Transport Secretary joins a distinguished panel to explore this crucial question on Tuesday 20th April.

Richard Holden: On Wednesday, Sunak needs to show as much confidence in Britain as local publicans in North West Durham

It was superb to see responsible local businesses investing, and ensuring a safe and socially distanced experience for their customers.

Neil O’Brien: Like fax machines, pagers and your old macarena CD, it’s time to bin the 1990s

The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.

WATCH: Transport Secretary admits he is ‘actively looking’ at quarantine for all arrivals

People coming into the UK could be quarantined for 14 days, he says.

Paul Maynard and Tim Alderslade: The Government must support Britain’s world-leading air transport industry

The right measures now will not only keep companies afloat in the short term but equip them to support an economic rebound when the crisis is passed.

The rights and wrongs of closing the borders

Raab and Patel advocate the positions of their departments, which are based on different concerns and priorities. It is for the Prime Minister to decide.

Paul Maynard: The Coronavirus and airlines. There’s an urgent need to suspend the slot allocation rules.

Common sense must prevail.  The ‘use it or lose it rule’ should be relaxed so that airlines can consolidate services where there aren’t enough passengers.

Sponsored Post: Airlines UK and Paul Holmes: The aviation industry has an ambitious plan to deliver net zero carbon emissions

Exciting developments in new technology, carbon credits and alternative fuel sources make the goal achievable.

Sponsored Post: Graham Brady and Tim Alderslade: We can and must be pro-environment and pro-aviation

The enemy is carbon, not air travel. The industry has already decoupled growth in aviation from growth in emissions, and plans further progress.

John Penrose: Why railways should be more like airlines – and how passengers would gain if they were

The Rail Delivery Group has just suggested a more modern system of tickets and fares. But such change should be only the start.

Graham Gudgin: If the EU delivers No Deal after all, there will be little to fear – and much to gain

A series of mini-deal, plus unilateral preparations by the UK, mean that most of the building blocks for a managed No Deal are already in place.

Chris Grayling: Here at Transport, we’re getting ready for Brexit – whatever happens. But here’s why I’m backing May’s deal.

If I had been offered this before the referendum in 2016, I would have seen it as a much better alternative to the status quo inside the EU.

Iain Dale: London murders and gang grooming

Plus: Erdogan, Putin and Rouhani meet at the Three Wise Monkeys Summit – hear no evil, see no evil…and evil. Guess which is which.