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.

James Arnell: Ready on Day One for Brexit. 3) Urgent transition issues.

There are some areas where continued jurisdiction for the ECJ is defensible and may, pragmatically, be the best route forward.

Stuart Jackson: Why it’s time for a relative energy price cap

It would achieve real competition, incentivise efficiency and bring prices down for the majority (companies would be forced to compete for new customers or wither fast).

Renewing the British dream: May’s speech in full

“Let us win this argument for a new generation and defend free and open markets with all our might.”

Owen Meredith: Policy reform can unite the party ahead of Manchester

Employment, taxation, and three environment are three areas where we can show the Tory agenda is bigger than Brexit.

Iain Dale: Pull yourselves together, Johnson, Hammond – the whole squabbling lot of you. Or we’ll have Corbyn in Downing Street.

Plus: The Labour leader’s other Brighton speech: “It was a full-blown Marxist rant. Put up taxes. Employers are evil. You know the sort of thing. They lapped it up.”

Iain Duncan Smith: Brexit. Why the Government must prepare for no deal now.

The arrogant behaviour of the EU so far, bordering on the deliberately offensive, is a bluff that we need to call.

Sarah Heald: Brexit is a chance to adopt a better approach to recycling

Instead of chasing targets for their own sake, we will be free to explore new opportunities for energy supply, jobs and environmental improvements.

Christopher Howarth: Beware of the EEA-light plan to keep us shackled to the EU

The suggestion here seems to be to keep current and future EU law – and thus the ECJ. We would accept EU laws as they developed without a say.

Robert Halfon: Conservatives must get better at retail politics

It’s not just an auction of promises we can never win, but an essential way to reach out to an increasingly consumerist electorate.

Eamonn Ives: An offshore wind of change is blowing

Ministers have been vindicated for backing this renewable source – as recent figures show that it can make a significant contribution to meeting the UK’s energy needs.

Henry Hill: Sturgeon wishes that the SNP had a less nationalist name

Also: Unionists accuse Sinn Fein of ‘ploy’ over talks; prominent Cybernat arrested; Ulster court throws out gay marriage case; and more.

China offers pots of money. But beware how low we must bow in order to receive it.

Cambridge University Press is just the latest institution to regret sacrificing fundamental principles in return for Chinese business.

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.

Study confirms tower blocks are energy inefficient

Electricity use in a high-rise is nearly two and a half times greater than in a low-rise.