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.”

Ryan Bourne: The core challenge that Johnson’s Government won’t face up to. Boosting growth.

Ministers have been asked to push the Government’s priorities – tackling crime, funding the NHS, “levelling up”. How can these be effected without faster growth?

The Treasury fights back. How it plans to drive radical reform – and become “the Government’s internal think tank”

Would the Government have the bottle for planning, childcare and police overhauls – and will Downing Street sign up to this plan anyway?

HS2. All aboard the Ninky Nonk.

This site would scrap the scheme. But sunk political costs as well as economic ones are likely to keep this Cameron modernisation legacy project chugging on and on.

WATCH: Barclay is asked for his “gut feeling” on whether HS2 will go ahead. “Yes.”

Marr puts the argument to the Brexit Secretary that the project’s costs are running out of control.

HS2’s financial case gets weaker and weaker – but has its political justification held up any better?

The project has its vocal supporters, but there are many areas in the North of England which it will not help at all.

Andy Street: My ten-point West Midlands plan for the new Government

The Prime Minister was right to say many voters have only ‘lent’ us their votes. We must now earn that trust, by ensuring the benefits of life in a post-Brexit Britain reach all communities.

Andrew Smith: The next Conservative Government can deliver for the North by investing in regeneration.

I hope that we will see more of the Chancellor during the campaign explaining how his plans can help support investment to boost productivity.

David Simmonds: I’m a supporter of railways, but HS2 is a misguided scheme

The current expensive disruptive route, and the neglect of decrepit local transport, are unacceptable.