Eamonn Ives: Markets, price signals, and supply-side reforms can hasten decarbonisation. Ministers take note.

Extending carbon pricing would serve as a constant pressure on emissions. But it won’t be enough on its own.

David Gauke: There are signs that the Treasury is winning – and that more tax rises are coming.

The overseas aid and Universal Credit decisions suggest that, for the first time in a while, the cause of fiscal conservatism is gaining the upper hand.

Shanker Singham: The Dimbleby food plan would wreck Britain’s trade policy

His report mischaracterises and simplifies the recommendation of a government commission on which I sat.

Morgan Schondelmeier: The Government’s ban on junk food adverts before 9pm is regressive and infantilising

This highly interventionist strategy lacks evidence, and is hardly a Conservative approach.

Mario Laghos: Covid reminds us of the dangers of depending on others. We would be mad to do so again – with food.

The proposed Australian trade deal risks bankrupting our farmers. The competition is unfair, their standards lower – and our consumer gain minimal.

Emily Carver: If our choices are lawful, can we really trust the state to judge which ones will harm us?

Much like a parent intent on disciplining their naughty child, this Government’s preferred policy tool seems to be prohibition.

Greg Smith: The proposed ban on ‘junk food’ advertising needs an urgent rethink

Businesses and producers should not be punished as a result of a hasty and ill-thought-out campaign to tackle childhood obesity.

The socially distanced and politically distanced Queen’s Speech

Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.

Sam Hall: Conservative lessons from Houchen and Street about how to respond to the Greens

By uniting behind Johnson’s plan, and replicating the approach of these two mayors, the the environment can become a winning issue for the party.

John Redwood: Why now that we have left the EU are we still yoked to Maastricht austerity?

What we need is to promote a higher wage, higher productivity economy. Our economic targets should reflect those aims.

Catherine McBride: Truss must free our farmers and consumers from the EU’s shackles

If we allow Britain to get locked into Brussels’ agricultural orbit, it will cost us both export opportunities and higher prices in the supermarket.

Adrian Mason: Brexit offers Welsh farmers great opportunity

The only caveat is the attitude of the Welsh Labour Government, hell-bent on replacing the EU’s onerous regulations with their own.

George Freeman: The industrial strategy reforms I led helped to deliver Britain’s vaccine success. Now for the next phase.

I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.

John Stevenson: The Government’s obesity strategy risks punishing businesses – when they need help most

New proposals will stifle the food and drink industry, which has played a vital role in supporting the country through the pandemic.

Will Quince: While we get help to people in need, Starmer calls for some of it to be scrapped – with no replacement plan

Labour would abolish Universal Credit, which has coped well with the unprecedented pressures of this unprecedented last year.