Robert Halfon: This time round, let’s keep the schools open – and not risk an epidemic of education poverty

And if the Chief Medical Officer says that the situation is rapidly becoming much worse, and that urgent action is needed, who am I to argue?

Daniel Hannan: We need Ministers’ estimate of the cost of the lockdown to lives and livelihoods

Publishing the figures will underline that Ministers are striving to be balanced. Never mind how it looks, though: better statistics will lead to better decisions.

David Gauke: Johnson’s Covid policy – and why it’s opening up a rift between him and his traditional Tory supporters

If he is to take the necessary steps to get a Brexit deal (and I hope he does), he is going to have to defy those instincts on a second issue, too.

Karol Sikora: Millions of people are waiting for cancer services. That’s the second wave we should worry about.

Those with cardiac conditions and other serious illnesses have, in many cases, been unable or too afraid to seek treatment.

Alexander Stafford: Renewables – not just providers of green energy, but enablers of levelling up

We should be increasing our export ambitions and the support that government gives companies in entering these global markets.

Tom Tugendhat: China. The five actions that the Government must take to defend our interests.

Given the salience of the topic, we are republishing the Chair of the Foreign Select Committee’s article above each day this week.

Dominic Walsh: What a customs union does and doesn’t do – and how it compares to the backstop.

Precisely because it would be a rather unnecessary addition to the current deal, it is hard to argue that the proposal would be a disaster for Brexit.

Alastair Thompson: Corbyn – an apologist for the tyrant who rules Venezuela by fear. Let a Commons vote put him on the spot.

Let’s see if Labour stands with Venezuela’s oppressed. For what party could truly say that it supports labour, while lending support to the butchery of labourers?

Vicky Ford: Plastic pollution is a poverty issue – and Britain can make a difference

The last in a series of three extracts from a new book of essays from Conservative Friends of International Development and Save the Children.

Daniel Hamilton: Bolsonaro, Brazil’s firebrand, sweeps the political establishment away – inspiring hopes and fears

If he wins the presidency, the big question will be which of his views – ranging from vague economic good sense to out-and-out bigotry – he actually means.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to trade with the world

The final article in the author’s five-piece series on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Garvan Walshe: How Venezuela became the left’s favourite dictatorship

Corbyn surely knows that Chavista populism isn’t the only alternative to a traditionalist, oligarchic right.

May warns Davos of globalisation’s downside – and “the cult of individualism”. Her speech: full text

“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”

Penny Mordaunt: I’m voting for Leadsom – businesswoman, family campaigner, Minister, fresh face and committed Brexiteer

The case for Leadsom. Determining the right course for leaving the EU requires a unique skill-set – and she has it.

If you want to Leave, vote with your heart today

Remain is trying to bully you out of doing what you want to do.