Ryan Bourne: Will the Government’s new High Potential Individual visa actually attract top global talent?

Questions have been raised about whether the visa route will truly be as liberal as some have implied

Toby Lloyd: Two years since Johnson promised to level up Britain, has the detail proven better than the spin?

The appointment of O’Brien to lead the forthcoming levelling-up white paper shows real commitment to the agenda.

Shanker Singham: The Dimbleby food plan would wreck Britain’s trade policy

His report mischaracterises and simplifies the recommendation of a government commission on which I sat.

Lee Rotherham: Europe’s new radical alliance is brittle, but offers the EU an important warning

Any move to grab more powers next year is going to end badly for politicians in Brussels.

Daniel Hannan: The City was always going to survive post-Brexit. But now we must diverge from EU rules, and allow it to prosper.

Brexit doesn’t just allow the City to make its regulatory regime more competitive; it obliges it to do so.

Stephen Booth: The Northern Ireland Protocol. A crisis is averted. But for how long?

That Switzerland and New Zealand each have their own arrangements suggests that a bespoke arrangement ought to be possible.

Phoebe Arslanagić-Wakefield: The Government must give EU nationals the security they deserve

A requirement for digital-only proof raises questions around reliability and digital exclusion.

The Electoral Commission has a new chairman – but do we really need it?

John Pullinger has done little to quell concerns that the body interferes in issues beyond its remit.

Did Brexit cause the dysfunction of the past five years – or merely expose deeper weaknesses?

The process of leaving brutally exposed some of the UK’s shortcomings. But a Remain vote would have hid them, not solved them.

John Redwood: The UK’s reliance on cheap labour to fill occupational shortages has always been wrong – and a barrier to innovation

If a business has easy access to low paid labour it will put off improving its technological processes.

Ryan Bourne: The tax hikes that could fall in the south. And tear the Tory coalition apart

The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,

Reports of Johnson’s political demise are greatly exaggerated

But this electoral Titan has an Achilles heel – tax rises which, rather than planning or HS2, are the real threat to future Chesham & Amershams.

“We have been surprised by the EU’s willingness to resort quite quickly to threats”. Lord Frost’s Königswinter speech.

“We do have a challenge…it is to respond to the new political configuration here without falling into the trap of statism.”

Interview with Dominic Raab: The EU’s approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol is “pretty analogue in a digital age”

The Foreign Secretary contends that by forming an aspirational coalition the Conservatives can gain votes in the North without losing support in the South.

Tom Hunt: Soft sentencing is causing voters to lose faith in the justice system. And it’s up to the Government to put it right.

When it comes to law and order, it is undeniable that our voters are in favour of firm policies to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour.