There’s a case for an ‘Amazon tax’, but it isn’t saving the high street

The online retail revolution has brought more convenience and lower prices to millions. Fighting it is an unworthy mission for a pro-consumer party.

James Arnell: No Deal 4) An outward-looking, global UK

We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.

The Conservatives: not the Party of “f*ck business”, but not the Party of blind obedience to big business, either

Prioritising large over small, or current businesses over future businesses, would hurt workers, consumers, taxpayers, investors and the nation.

Patrick Minford: More compliance. Lower productivity. Reduced growth. Why we must free ourselves from EU regulation.

If we do, we could reverse at least some of the six per cent hit to GDP it has caused so far. If we don’t, we could continue to lose productivity growth of 0.2 per cent a year.

Festus Akinbusoye: We should be the party of small businesses – not big multinationals

We must turbo-charge the vehicle of British entrepreneurship as we drive across the Brexit bridge which should connect us with the rest of the world.

Chris Grayling: We must never forget how badly nationalisation failed key public services

The Government must always stand up to businesses’ excesses, without losing sight of the huge benefits that partnerships have brought.

Abhishek Sachdev: Small and medium-sized businesses are being exploited by banks which abuse their power

Thousands of businesses have suffered material harm as a result of sharp practice against which they have no recourse.

James Frayne: Healthcare, crime and justice, quality retirement and the provinces. Four priorities for the Centre-Right

It ought to be focused on those areas that the public really care about and where it can meaningfully offer useful policy ideas.

Charlotte Black: Reconnecting stakeholders with capitalism

The third in a three-part series of contributions from the ‘New Blue Book’.

Kevin Hollinrake: Why the National Minimum Wage should be raised to the level of the National Living Wage

A new study shows that paying a living wage is good for employees, and that it’s proving to make good business sense too.

James Frayne: Beleaguered corporate executives have much to learn from politicians

Westminster is streets ahead of most boardrooms in dealing with intense media scrutiny.

Regulatory reform is essential to industrial strategy

Greg Clark and BEIS have the opportunity to create a much more coherent and considerate approach to setting the rules for business.

Rebalancing the economy requires a new monetary policy

Both consumer price inflation and higher interest rates are needed.

Alexander Temerko: Out go Cameron’s clip-voiced Etonians. In comes McLoughlin, Tory working class hero.

The former pit worker is the man to make the Conservatives a true One Nation party.

The first test of May’s new industrial strategy – and a task for Clark

The sale of ARM Holdings to Softbank is a curtain-raiser for May’s new plan – over which he has charge.