Ryan Bourne: Sunak shouldn’t try today to restore pre-virus Britain. It’s gone – and we must now adapt.

What normalisation should mean is the return to a functioning market economy where our wants and needs are met in today’s circumstances.

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.

Darren Grimes: Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?

In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.

Andy Street: With more shops opening again, here are high street lessons we can learn from the last recession

At John Lewis where I was a new MD, we decided to put our trust in technology – to build a business model for the future.

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.

Jake Scott: To defend the ‘Blue Wall’, Tory MPs must be prepared to defy the whip

To paraphrase Burke, they owe their Party, as much as their electors, the benefit of their independent, locally-informed judgement.

Andy Street: Our West Midlands recovery plan – and why no one-size-fits-all Whitehall scheme would work

Here, the recovery of our automotive and construction sectors is crucial – firms in the region directly employ around 46,500 people.

Neil O’Brien: Salvaging the economy. Could we just live with more borrowing for a bit? Maybe, maybe not.

Hopefully it will be crisis averted, and we’ll have a bit more time to fix the hole. But sooner or later, difficult choices on tax and spending are coming.

Sam Bowman: The Budget offers an opportunity for Sunak to move on road pricing. He should take it.

In the second piece of our mini-series, our guest author says that a switch to the scheme would most likely leave the average motorist better-off.

A storm over Heathrow threatens. Will the Prime Minister set a course for ‘Boris Island’?

An estuary airport was touted as his big idea on flight capacity during his time as Mayor of London. There’s nobody to stop him now.

WATCH: “HS2 only takes about four per cent each year of the capital budget” – Shapps

The Transport Secretary insists the Manifesto pledge to lower debt over this Parliament will be honoured.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: We wait for a new Opposition leader to take the fight to the Prime Minister

And we shall not see a new Leader of the Opposition at Prime Minister’s Questions until 22nd April.

WATCH: The Prime Minister announces that HS2 will proceed

“We can consign the next generation to overcrowding, standing up in the carriageways or we can have the guts to take a decision.”

Andy Street: Yes to HS2. But it’s only the start of the transport revolution we need north of Watford.

That’s why last week I launched my transport plan for the West Midlands – an ambitious, 20-year vision of how our constituent boroughs will be linked in the coming decades.

WATCH: Burnham insists that the North needs better rail lines

“The North of England needs new rail lines that go East-West and North-South.”