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Chris Ham: A tax rise to better fund the NHS is gaining Conservative support

At the same time as putting in more money, there must be a credible plan to spend it effectively – including improvements to how care is delivered.

Which taxes should Tories cut? 1) Sam Dumitriu: No virtue-signalling giveaways, hammer taxes that hold back growth

After our recent series asked ‘What should Tories tax?’, the Adam Smith Institute’s Head of Research kicks off a new mini-series seeking routes to lower taxes.

Nola Leach: Hammond should help reduce a burden on taxpayers by boosting transferable allowances

Ignoring the family unit means pressures on benefits – and burdening some poorer families with the highest effective marginal tax rate in the developed world.

Sketch: Green urges his Cabinet colleagues to show self-discipline

If the Conservative Party can be saved by good-humoured moderation, the First Secretary of State will provide it.

Howard Flight: So who’s to blame for our productivity problems? Step forward, Gordon Brown

Between 1997 and 2005, public sector spending rose from £336 billion to £517 billion a year. But its output has increased little, so its productivity has fallen dramatically.

How Hammond could raise his ratings

The Chancellor has not always been well treated by his neighbour, and deserves support over public spending. But he has mishandled his internal position over Brexit.

Lord Ashcroft: Now the Left blames the voters for America’s result – an arrogance that helps to show why it lost

Like the Conservatives after 1997, Corbyn’s Labour and some Remainers, America’s Democrats are failing to learn from their mistakes.

Who needs the Autumn Statement?

Hammond wants no longer to treat it as a second Budget-style political opportunity. That may turn out to be better in principle than in practice.

If Brexit happens, Osborne won’t deliver his emergency budget. The Commons will stop him if he tries. And he won’t be in post for long either way.

He is treating people like fools.

Howard Flight: It is clear that the aim of the BMA is to topple the Government

Young doctors have been wickedly misled by the BMA to break the Hippocratic Oath – although one in five has had the bravery to cross the picket lines.

Chris Grayling: Labour’s attack on Cameron is an attack on all Conservatives – and on succcess itself

We have long believed that those who build wealth in our nation should be able to pass on the fruits of their work to their children and grandchildren.

The Budget. Osborne should dare to be dull.

The Chancellor should resist the temptation to ease the path to June’s referendum and further his leadership ambitions.

The Commons needs Cameron as a not-so-much-elder statesman

He should stay on to give it the benefit of his finest hours, worst moments, close shaves, cock-ups, might-have-beens and, yes, wisdom.

How Osborne could tackle the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and win a landslide

The Chancellor doesn’t want to repeat Brown’s mistakes – if he wins the top job, there is a clear route to holding a snap election.