Julian Jessop: Gove’s report card – A for diligence, A for engagement, B for attainment. So far.

In the first of a mini-series assessing his performance at DEFRA, Gove’s willingness to challenge mighty vested interests is put to the test.

Peter Franklin: Physician, heal thyself; think tanks, re-think thyselves

Onward seems set to propound the liberal and Freer the libertarian versions of the globalist agenda. Where does that leave the anti-globalist voters who now back the Tories?

Rebecca Pow: I’m proud to have been granted an award for being the greenest new MP

I took part in the first ever debate held in Parliament on soil. Solar panels line my office roof. Also I use a Somerset wicker basket instead of plastic bags.

Isabel Sigmac: Animal welfare. Gove has made a good start, but there’s much more to do – such as a live export ban.

Other issues to be addressed include religious slaughter, the fur trade, cruelty, puppy mills, factory farming, testing and increasing threats to our wildlife.

The new Gove has all the energy and imagination of the old – but is less willing to fight others. What’s changed?

Is he adapting to get things done? Might he be adjusting to life as an emergent elder statesman? Or could it all be about leadership ambition? His reinvention continues.

Charlie Elphicke: Keeping order at the border – to prepare for a smooth Brexit

Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.

Anthony Mangnall: Gove has an opportunity to close the domestic ivory market

Gove, the rather unexpected DEFRA Secretary, can demonstrate again that Conservatives are conservationists.

George Currie: Air quality is a Conservative issue

We have a duty to honour the inter-generational contract articulated by Edmund Burke.

Sam Hall: Environmental policy can help Conservatives win over younger voters

Michael Gove has made a great start at DEFRA, but from farm subsidies to onshore wind there is plenty more the Party can do.

Chris White: The significance of the appointment of John Randall

Downing Street in its new incarnation will value his ability to build bridges with a Parliamentary Party still reeling from the shock election result.

Rebecca Pow: Managed decline isn’t enough – we must leave the environment in a better state than we found it

The Government has rightly become more ambitious – but there is still further to go.

Tom Clarke: More productive, competitive and profitable farming would enhance our food security

Subsidies, tariffs or lowering standards are not the answer. There is a conservative solution.

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.

Gove and Fox must work together to prepare farmers for Brexit

The Article 50 clock is ticking – their departments must waste no more time in preparing the agricultural sector for the challenges and opportunities posed by global trade.

Ben Caldecott and Sam Hall: Ministers must push harder for clean air

The ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2040 sends a good long-term signal, but we need tougher measures to address the short-term damage.