Jeremy Hunt: My move today to ensure that we train enough doctors and nurses for the future

The amendment doesn’t require more spending – just regular estimates of the staff that should be trained in each speciality. 

Lisa Townsend: Balancing the nation’s finances with policing needs is the priority for PCCs like me

I want to ensure that every pound that goes into policing makes us safer, while also protecting the taxpayer.

Ros Altmann: Ministers must think again about abandoning manifesto commitments to pensioners

It is right that younger generations pay the soaring costs of unfunded commitments to older citizens, that is how it has always been.

James Frayne: The Conservatives’ new working class base would voice little opposition if the party rolled back the state

Polls show they’re more in favour of lower taxes than professionals and believe that much of Government spending is wasted.

David Willetts: If we’re to have less migration into Britain – and more productivity – we must move around more within it

We are the party of mobility and enterprise. But we are also the party of community and belonging. What is it to be – roots or wings?

Ryan Bourne: Don’t write off the Budget. It showed that the Treasury is taking incentives and tax coherence seriously again.

The Chancellor extolled principles that point to the possibility of meaningful pro-growth reform of how revenues are raised.

John Redwood: We’re free of EU membership and can motor to our own destiny. But still drive nervously in L-plates. Why?

There should be a growth target to complement the inflation target – to drive government departments to take actions that will promote more UK activity and jobs.

Bim Afolami: After the Budget, we won’t deliver levelling up without putting economic growth first

Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.

Victoria Vyvyan: The Government has no ambition for the rural economy

For those of us living in the countryside, there was little new to get excited about in the Chancellor’s Budget.

Gerard Lyons: The Budget. It was right for the Chancellor to focus on providing a stronger foundation for growth.

Yesterday he sent a powerful message about the need to build a stronger economy, with a focus on innovation and investment.

“This Government chooses to invest.” The Chancellor’s statement. Full text.

“We will always give people the support they need and the tools to build a better life for themselves”, says Sunak.

WATCH: “Let there be no doubt: our plan is working”. Sunak delivers the Budget.

“Today’s Budget does not draw a line under Covid – we have challenging months ahead”, he adds.

Daniel Hannan: Where is the money coming from? The question that Conservatives don’t know how to answer.

Billions have already been briefed in advance of today’s budget, as if Britain were a country with a healthy budget surplus.

James Frayne: The Conservatives’ next challenge? Persuading voters they know how to cut Government waste.

Simply put: the party needs to “prove” it has cut to the bone to justify existing or higher taxes.

Richard Holden: Tomorrow’s Budget must show a return to traditional Conservative economics of fiscal responsibility

We must get both borrowing and debt down so that, faced with a future pandemic, war or crisis, we can properly respond.