How to cut the cost of living

When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.

Richard Holden: Covid has kept Britain in chains since we left the EU. Now we’re set to break free.

Our columnist provides the second piece in our series this week about Brexit – almost a year since the end of transition.

Natalie Elphicke: This must be the year in which the small boat channel crossings are ended

The bottom line is that no-one has to make these dangerous journeys. We need to be crystal clear about that.

Two years of Brexit

Are we making the most of leaving the European Union – and if not what should we do to get the best out of it?

Johnson hands Truss the poisoned fruit of the Northern Ireland Protocol

The province’s immediate future risks becoming enmeshed in her leadership ambitions – and Conservative reactions to them.

David Willetts: Is it too hard for Ministers to exercise power in modern Britain?

Judicial review is clearly more intrusive than it was. But it is the checks and balances which protect us in a liberal democracy.

Gerard Lyons: We must rise to the challenge of dealing with China. Here’s a strategy for doing so.

The UK needs a fresh, robust template. Central to it should be a differentiation between strategic and non-strategic areas.

Emily Carver: Post-Brexit, the UK must stand strong against the authoritarianism sweeping the continent

Any liberal-minded person must reject the demonisation of the unvaccinated, who are free to make choices about their own health.

Peter Franklin: I’m pro-mask, pro-vax and pro-lockdown (if necessary). But against compulsory vaccination. Here’s why.

I’m more relaxed about the frontiers of the state rolling forward than some. But all the way into my bloodstream? Not without my say so.

Kate Ferguson: The Government must act – as the threat of ethnic cleansing haunts Bosnia once again

So far, the UK is emerging as a potential leader on the international stage – a stark contrast to Britain’s policy of the 1990s.

David Gauke: Oomph and optimism don’t always vanquish the doomsters and gloomsters

Here are six recent examples of how the Prime Minister has been mugged by reality.

To deliver on prisoner rehabilitation, Raab needs the same as every other Minister. A little help from Downing Street.

But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.

Robert Halfon: How my new Bill can protect millions of pupils and students from the disaster of future school shutdowns

It seeks to define education settings as essential infrastructure alongside other premises such as power stations, hospitals and food retailers.

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.

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.