Outsiders are not always good, and governments are not always bad

The columnist Steve Richards examines the rise of the modern demagogues, and their eventual, inevitable failure.

Cameron Penny: May must go now

There is a natural path ahead: announce a resignation by the end of next week, and allow a contest to take place over the summer.

Ben Roback: More flipflops than Brighton Beach – why we can’t trust Trump on NATO

The President seems determined to force other NATO members to pay their way, diplomatic niceties be damned.

Christopher Howarth: NATO will survive both Trump and Merkel’s criticisms. But it might not survive a Prime Minister Corbyn.

The idea that Brexit is a threat to defence co-operation is a myth.

Garvan Walshe: Macron’s victory means that May’s Brexit strategy must change fast

By seeing off Le Pen and electing the most ideologically pro-EU president since Giscard d’Estaing, France has changed the game.

Germany, a country even the Germans do not understand

A new history just blames the Prussians, the Protestants and the East Germans for everything that has gone wrong in German history.

Ashley Fox: A General Election victory will finally convince Brussels we really are leaving the EU

Some in the EU still imagine Britain might u-turn. Let’s show them without doubt that we won’t.

Iain Dale: Ignore the conventional wisdom. So far, Johnson has hardly put a foot wrong.

Plus: The coming local elections. My predictions – Liberal Democrats up, Conservatives up, UKIP down, Labour down – and maybe Corbyn out later this year.

Alistair Burt: Last week, Iain Duncan Smith told his Brexit story. Here’s mine.

The script for the new relationship with the EU must be written as much by those who valued it as by those who campaigned to leave it.

Henry Newman: Sequencing and money. The first big challenges to the Brexit negotiation.

Will the UK get a deal? Much depends on whether other European governments or the EU Commission take charge on the other side of the table.

Isabel Oakeshott: A new role for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. They should become worldwide Ambassadors for Brexit.

The couple should sally forth to convey the message that Britain is ready and eager to seize the opportunities presented by liberation from Brussels.

WATCH: Trump and Merkel press conference

“The United States has been treated very, very unfairly by many countries over the years and that’s going to stop.”

Jeremy Hunt: This week’s Budget delivered for the NHS, social care – and the vulnerable people who depend on both

I am determined to see our health service offer the safest, highest quality care anywhere in the world.

David Gauke: This is a Budget for resilience, skills and fairness – and our changes to NICs are fair

Self-employed people earning less than £15,900 a year will still see a reduction in their NICs bill, and also benefit from the increased income tax personal allowance.

Andy Cook: Why our culture must change if today’s Budget changes for technical education are to work

Real change won’t happen until until technical courses gain equal esteem to academic ones.