Michael Dugher: Covid-19 is a lesson in the three Rs for the government

While it’s important to focus on the ‘R’ rate in tackling covid, we must also balance health concerns against two other Rs – recovery versus recession.

Stephen Booth: Why Trans-Pacific Partnership membership can bolster the UK’s relationship with the US

The pandemic has huge geopolitical implications. Britain can better its aspirations by joining the CPTPP.

The Government should stand behind loans to small businesses in full

Ministers can carry on trying, through the British Business Bank or directly, to push on this Gordian Knot – or slice through it.

Ryan Bourne: The real Budget question on borrowing is not “could we?” but “should we?”

My answer would be “maybe, provided the spending or tax cuts significantly improved our growth potential.”

HS2. All aboard the Ninky Nonk.

This site would scrap the scheme. But sunk political costs as well as economic ones are likely to keep this Cameron modernisation legacy project chugging on and on.

Ryan Bourne: To help grow prosperity, let’s focus on people and not places – such as towns

Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.

John O’Connell: Cuts to inheritance tax could help the new government

Perhaps the cost of dying all seems rather small fry, in relation to delivering Brexit by October 31. But there is likely to be a Budget ahead of the deadline.

Can economic forecasts regain their political authority?

The financial crisis, Brown, Osborne and then the EU and Scottish referendums did not cover the discipline in glory.

Anthony Browne: Policy Gains from Brexit 1) We need more debate about what to do when we take back control

Most of the sound and furore about making it happen is all about means, but there has been virtually no debate about the ends.

Richard Kelly: Brexit has exposed the age-old clash between liberalism and democracy

‘Liberal democracy’ is not an inevitable combination. Nor, it seems, is it necessarily a sustainable one.

Robert Halfon: Now is the time for Common Market 2.0, and an EFTA-type plan for Brexit

Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?

As the ‘meaningful vote’ approaches, apply buckets of salt to all Government news

Scepticism is always a healthy attitude – but the spin being pumped out this weekend merits even more than normal.

Brexit: The Uncivil War. Graham gives us Cummings Agonistes – and a Tory work of art.

The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.

Universal Credit. Noble aim, thorny problems – and Rudd’s decision. If the scheme is to work properly, it must be paid for.

If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.

Exclusive. New Government of National Unity Cabinet in full.

We have the full list from the New Progressive Democratic Liberal National Coalition Party – including a three-way Northern Ireland jobshare.