Adrian Mason: The Internal Market Bill will help North Wales compete

Funding that was wasted by the EU should not be handed over to be wasted by the Welsh Government.

Johnson’s quiet shift to a more permissive migration policy

He is averse to using numbers as the main instrument of control – perhaps viewing them as an arbitrary measure of success.

Henry Hill: Tories claim Drakeford has turned Wales into ‘test-bed for left-wing socialist authority’

Also: another miserable week in Government for the SNP; the deep damage of the Irish Protocol grow clearer by the day; and more.

Gerald Howarth: To ensure post-Brexit success, the Government must bolster Britain’s military power

Furthermore, increasing global tensions make improving our defence capabilities essential.

Richard Holden: The Japan trade deal, future CPTPP membership – deliverers of wages, prosperity and work to my Durham constituents.

They can seem remote from the everyday priorities of people here at home. But at its heart, trade is a powerful way to deliver what people really care about.

Matthew Elliott: Please apply to invest in Britain’s future and win £10,000

We would like to hear from people under the age of 35 with an exciting idea or contribution to policy debate.

Interview: Goodhart says Johnson understands better than Starmer that a graduate meritocracy alienates manual workers

The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.

Robert Halfon: We should be pro-private enterprise, anti-mega corporates – which plunder the taxpayer again and again

Plus: Let’s cut VAT on energy bill as soon as we leave transition – deal or no deal. And: first Ardern, then Biden?

WATCH: ‘I want a deal’, says Gove on Brexit, ‘but it takes both sides to compromise’

He is challenged over claims that coronavirus disruption is giving the Government ‘cover’ to pursue a no-deal exit.

The EU trade talks. Whether there’s a deal or not, we will be out of transition soon. Ministers should be ready to make the most of it.

The Government should be mulling some quick Brexit wins come the New Year – ways of using freedoms that we don’t have during implementation.

The Peter Pan-demic

Economic crises have infantilised multiple generations. Our leaders need to give them hope.

WATCH: Johnson 1) Brexit. “We should get ready for January 1 with arrangements that are more like Australia’s”

This does not, repeat not, mean that the current trade negotiations will necessarily end with No Deal. They’re set to continue this week.

Claire Coutinho: Amidst the Great Global Data Divide, Britain must lead the charge for digital free markets

As a leading digital economy with new control over its trade policy, Britain is uniquely placed to help shape global rules in this emerging arena.

Iain Dale: The number of people who tell me that they would ignore the rules of any new national lockdown is troubling

Plus: Macron has closed Paris at night. Merkel is pondering tougher restrictions. So don’t blame Johnson as though our situation were unique.

Germany enters a critical stage – as Europe increasingly converges in its Covid-19 response

From curfews to alcohol bans, leaders across the continent are increasingly unified in their choice of measures.