Hugo de Burgh: We owe it to future generations of Brits to work with China

It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.

WATCH: Hancock claims recent investment in NHS ‘unprecedented’

However, he doesn’t recognise the £10bn figure bosses are reportedly asking for on the NHS’ 72nd anniversary.

James Roberts: Big state spender Roosevelt shouldn’t be Gove’s new role model

In that sense, his speech could easily have been given by a much more fitting figure for the Ditchley Foundation: Tony Blair.

Luke Evans: My Coronavirus report from near the Leicester lockdown front line

I see my role as being that of an honest broker in a fluid situation. I’m determined not to put information out because I want to be first with the news.

Andy Street: Our blueprint setting out the economic ambitions of the West Midlands

This ambitious business case is based on our experiences not only of recovering from the last downturn, but on the successes of the last three years.

Jackie Doyle-Price: It’s time to establish a firm future for pharmacies – the unsung heroes of the coronavirus crisis

While GP’s surgeries have closed their doors, 11,500 local pharmacy teams have stayed open, putting their lives at risk and working tirelessly.

Maria Higson: The Coronavirus has already changed the NHS. Now it can be transformed for the better. Here’s how.

Service innovation has suddenly become possible at break-neck speed. We need to shift further the mindset of politicians, professionals, and the public.

Julie Newcombe: Hancock must aid the pandemic’s forgotten victims. The hundreds of autistic people detained in secure units.

Is the sequestering, incarceration and forgetting of these vulnerable children and young adults any better than in Georgian and Victorian times?

Sunder Katwala: Race and age. To older Britons, the pace of progress seems swift. To younger ones, frustratingly slow.

The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.

Robert Halfon: The Government was wise to give way to Rashford. Now let him head up the Social Mobility Commission.

Plus: vision from the top for left-behind pupils, a National Education Broadcasting Service, and Alan Turing summer schools.

The culture of “special measures” prepares to counter the threat of the virus

And the threat to the NHS seems distant enough to experiment with the relaxation of the two metre rule.

Coronavirus Count

Our daily updated guide to key facts and information about the illness drawn from Government sources.

The schools debacle is a consequence not of the personal failings of Williamson, but of the structural flaws of this Government

We have a dominating centre and compliant Ministers. The Education Secretary was given his marching orders, and told to like them or lump them.

Eamonn Butler: More state provision won’t fix social care. It needs partnerships with independent providers.

Investors should create new homes – in an economies-of-scale dozen at a time, and lease a whole care package to local authorities.

James Frayne: We should prepare ourselves to hear horrifying tales of what’s happened in lockdown Britain

Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.