Andy Street: Transport funding provides an unprecedented opportunity to level up the country

It boosts local economies and creates jobs, while it also provides tangible evidence of improvement in regions.

Darren Caplan: The UK railway industry can play a key part in the country’s post pandemic economic recovery

It is vital the Government remembers this while finalising the Comprehensive Spending Review.

WATCH: “There’s plenty of fuel”. Shapps urges public not to panic buy at petrol stations.

The Transport Secretary says “if people carry on as they normally would… then you won’t have queues”.

Starmer had a point on the Government’s amber travel list

It’s given a series of mixed messages over what this means for people who want to go abroad – with troublesome results.

Iain Dale: Why would any sensible person even think about booking a holiday in countries with low immunisation rates?

Plus: Twitter seems to know more about my medical state than my GP. And: Kuenssberg’s unguarded moment.

Andy Street: A transport revolution is under way in the West Midlands – with the launch of a new bike hire scheme

This is an ambitious project designed to appeal to the 30 per cent of people here who don’t cycle but say they would like to give it a go.

The Conservative Party Conference programme – and which ministers are up and down

It’s speeches for Sunak, Patel and Raab; interviews in different formats for Gove, Hancock and others; while others still are relegated to panels…

On the 14-day quarantine, the Government has got it right

The priority must be to get rid of the virus – anything to jeopardise that could push travel even further way.

Blood tests at airports, robot microbe killers, and attendants in PPE: How Covid-19 will affect the future of travel

Various new measures are being created to cope with the threat of the virus, with huge ramifications for tourism.

Our last pre-election Cabinet League Table. It’s a near-tie at the top: Javid, Gove, Johnson, in that order.

Whilst individual ministers rise and fall, overall the Government goes to the polls with a lot of goodwill from grassroots Conservatives.

WATCH: Shapps says by-elections are a “wake-up call”

“UKIP costs Conservatives seats – that puts Ed Miliband on step closer to Downing Street”

Now we know how many members the Conservative Party has, work begins to rebuild the machine

Grant Shapps starts a new drive for more members, better data and a renewed grassroots.

Iain Dale’s Friday Diary: Ed Miliband should apologise to Andrew Mitchell

Also: Meeting Princess Michael. My old friend Simon Burns. Alastair Campbell, my stand-in. And: off to Dubrovnik and “the odd Ann Widdecombe pussy joke”.

Grant Shapps: Welcome to Team2015 – the initiative that takes us beyond party membership

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Grant Shapps: We’re getting the big decisions right – and Miliband has nothing to offer

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