It’s time for Conservatives to get over Thatcher, get on with May – and look forward, not back

The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.

Stuart Jackson: Here’s how a price cap could introduce real competition to the energy market

A ‘relative’ cap on the difference between standard variable tariffs and acquisition tariffs could untie Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ in the retail energy market.

Lord Ashcroft: In the West Midlands, the heads of my Labour-background focus group battle with their hearts

“I just feel worried. I don’t know if I would a hundred per cent want to vote for the Conservatives, because still emotionally I’m attached to Labour.”

Corbyn’s manifesto shows exactly why his crashing incompetence matters

He can’t manage an ordered manifesto launch, but wants voters to give him direct control of vast swathes of industry.

Dan Poulter: Let’s back the energy price cap and squeeze the fat cats

They want a market that lines their pockets at the expense of the overwhelming majority of their customers.

If the energy cap doesn’t fit…

May wants to break with the Thatcher tradition on controls, but there are risks from our old friend the law of unexpected consequences.

Our survey and the manifesto. How party members ranked potential policies – from defence to HS2. Full list.

Keeping the triple lock third from bottom; scrapping the Human Rights Act fifth from top; an energy price cap fourth from bottom.

Adam Wildman: Why the pollution panic? Our air is getting cleaner. May should ignore the scaremongering – and help drivers

We should not let the Left’s virtue-signalling convince us that imposing further penalties on drivers would be a good idea.

James Kirkup: May’s manifesto should chart a path to dominating the centre ground

This fourth piece of our mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues she must build a fair market for all.

Good news for diesel drivers – but a dark smog cloud is on the horizon for the rest of us

A compensation scheme will be welcome. But the Government might yet have to introduce other punitive measures.

Free marketeers and interventionists battle for the soul of the Conservative manifesto

The former fear that it will revive what they believe are business-unfriendly ideas about foreign takeovers and workers on boards.

£350 million a week? Cutting red tape means the savings from Brexit will be much higher

The cost of £100 to the average household energy bill is just an example.

Sam Hall: Conservative voters are more green than stereotype would suggest

New polling finds that they are proud of Britain’s action on climate change, and want the main EU environment regulations retained after Brexit.

The Brexit negotiation – and why the importance of tariff-free trade has been over-hyped

The Government must try to build from the essentials out – security, legal certainty, frictionless trade. Zero tariffs would be the icing on the cake.

Nadhim Zahawi: Apprenticeships – a crowning achivement of this Government’s work

You may well hear grumbling from businesses about the levy which will help to fund them – but the effort will be worth it.