WATCH: Government must show Covid plans “workable” and “sufficient” – Nandy

MPs need to see the regulations as well as economic and health impact assessments before deciding if they will support the new tiers, she says.

Caino-ho-ho

Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.

WATCH: Last-minute decisions are damaging business, says Phillipson

She attacks the Government for giving employers less than six hours’ notice that the furlough scheme was being extended.

WATCH: “Why should the North be treated any differently?” asks Greenhalgh

The Bolton Council leader says he knows virus rates in the North are high, but he calls for an exit package from restrictions.

WATCH: Reynolds – “The Government has lost control of Covid-19”

Further measures are needed to deal with the virus, and there must be more support for business, he says.

WATCH: “I haven’t felt anger like this towards the Government since the 80s” – Nandy

People feel the Government has not just abandoned communities [in the North], but is now actively working against them, she says.

Tim Ambler: How to replace quangos

We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.

Rachel Wolf: Net Zero risks upending our lives and livelihoods. Here’s why carbon pricing gives it a better chance of working.

It doesn’t make grand predictions about what will work or what we should do. It just prices in the ‘bad’ – in this case, emissions.

Neil O’Brien: Johnson should instruct a team of Ministers to wage war on woke

The future was that we would be colour-blind.  Instead, wokeism tells us we should see each other as members of different races. 

Ryan Bourne: A lesson from this pandemic. State action fails even when the case for it is strongest.

I was regaled with horror story after story on access to even existing testing. Confidence in the “moonshot” is non-existent.

Daniel Hannan: Politicians can’t win. When they don’t give us what we want, we protest. And when they then do, we carry on.

These are the same elected representatives the whom we insisted should “step back and trust the professionals”.

Roderick Crawford: Brexit is the beginning of a journey to transform Britain

As a general set of principles for the UK global aims, we would do well to turn for inspiration and leadership to Churchill and Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter.

Johnson prepares for his new Prime Minister’s department

He may move out of Number Ten altogether for work and into the Cabinet Office at 70 Whitehall.

Tony Smith: In over 40 years of Home Office experience, I can’t recall a time when our borders have been under so much pressure

I know that government needs a cross-Whitehall programme that actively engages with the myriad of departments and agencies.

Jesse Norman: My revolutionary experiment with other Ministers today in delivering better value for taxpayers

We will take part in this new programme – designed to ensure that infrastructure projects are delivered on time and within their allotted budget.