Daniel Hannan: Prejudice against fat people is a snobbery of the Left

The underlying motive for this tradition, though now often dressed up in quasi-medical language, is as much aesthetic as sanitary.

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.

Warwick Lightfoot: The right post-Brexit farming policy could unleash agricultural innovation and lighten the load on consumers

Reform must be phased, to allow farmers to adapt, but it will pay dividends.

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.

In pitching to the environmental movement, Gove seeks allies in the forthcoming debate about farm subsidies

If wealthy landowners fight to retain their CAP subsidies, then support for reform from the green movement could come in handy.

42 per cent and no majority 6) Use leaving the EU to deliver lower food prices

Doing so would be a concrete and welcome improvement to the lives of millions of people.

Robert Halfon: Being a Workers Party means being a party for lower taxes too

We should put the proceeds in a special Redistribution Fund to spend either on public services, or on poorer communities, or cutting taxes for the lower paid.

What would WTO mean? 3) William Norton: Designing a post-Brexit agricultural policy

Hammering out a “Son of CAP” has its challenges, but they are more technical than political – and can be resolved.

Fiona Hodgson: While the election rages on, we have chance this month to reduce starvation and hunger worldwide

40 million people are currently in urgent need of food assistance. The G7 summit at the end of May has an opportunity to act.

Richard Ali: Environmental payments. A safety net. And a sovereign fund. How to build a post-Brexit future for farming.

Get policy right, and our farmers and growers can, and will, innovate and seize the opportunities that change will undoubtedly bring.

Scott Mann: Brexit is a great opportunity for British agriculture

The sector is already a success story – this is a chance to make it even better.

Michael Tomlinson: Brexit is the greatest opportunity for free trade and prosperity since the repeal of the Corn Laws

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Peel moving his great measure – to which much of the Lords was also opposed.

Nicholas Mazzei: Britain needs to start taking exercise seriously

The social and financial costs of obesity are enormous, and fall disproportionately on the less well-off.

Daniel Hannan: May isn’t a Christian Democrat, she’s a proper conservative

Despite all the fuss, her ideas thus far mainly involve helping working people through smaller government.