Rachel Wolf: Tests for the delivery of levelling up, and levers with which to deliver it

It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper. 

Andy Street: I haven’t raised a mayoral tax during my term, and commit to not doing so if I’m re-elected

It’s not surprising that I do things differently, since I came to the role from a business background, rather than via the world of politics.

Andy Street: Our pioneering bus partnership will get the West Midlands economy moving

For too long, the workhorse of public transport has been a poor relation compared to trams and rail.

Bob Neill: There is no good reason to apply the same Covid restrictions throughout London

The London Borough of Bromley, which I am proud to represent, is a case in point – because cases remain relatively low.

Andy Street: Our blueprint setting out the economic ambitions of the West Midlands

This ambitious business case is based on our experiences not only of recovering from the last downturn, but on the successes of the last three years.

Andy Street: What we’re doing in the West Midlands to combat the coronavirus.

If you really want to see how we’re pulling together, the best example is taking shape now at the NEC, outside Birmingham – the new NHS Nightingale Hospital.

Robert Halfon: The Budget we need today is for social as well as physical infrastructure

Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.

Sam Bowman: The Budget offers an opportunity for Sunak to move on road pricing. He should take it.

In the second piece of our mini-series, our guest author says that a switch to the scheme would most likely leave the average motorist better-off.

WATCH: “HS2 only takes about four per cent each year of the capital budget” – Shapps

The Transport Secretary insists the Manifesto pledge to lower debt over this Parliament will be honoured.

WATCH: The Prime Minister announces that HS2 will proceed

“We can consign the next generation to overcrowding, standing up in the carriageways or we can have the guts to take a decision.”

James Frayne: Ten errors that Conservatives must avoid making about the new working class voters who backed them last month

Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.

Andy Street: The spending round must be about generating money as well as allocating it

The UK needs a state-of-the-art ‘gigafactory’, and it should be built here in the West Midlands alongside our established automotive cluster.

Chloe Westley: It’s the end of the line for HS2, or should be

The majority of Brits drive to work in a car or a van, but journalists and politicians get the train to work. I think that’s reflected in political discourse.

Chris Philp: Ministers must act now to stop railway strikes

We need new laws to cover transport and the emergency services.

Paul Abbott: Ride-sharing! Pavement stops! Fixed timetables! The shocking story of the rise of the big red London bus

Picture the objections from the hackney carriage PR-men! Perhaps if Sadiq Khan had been alive to see such news, he would have raised a formal objections in Parliament.