Ryan Bourne: Will the Government’s new High Potential Individual visa actually attract top global talent?

Questions have been raised about whether the visa route will truly be as liberal as some have implied

WATCH: Rees-Mogg brands Labour a ‘party of people traffickers’

He attacks the Opposition for criticising the Government’s toughness whilst opposing every measure it introduces.

Is racism in Britain increasing?

The third part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.

Alex Morton: We need to boost our brownfield developments. But that doesn’t mean a zero greenfield approach.

One of the more seductive myths in the housing debate is that there is enough brownfield land to satisfy our building needs.

Lee Rotherham: Europe’s new radical alliance is brittle, but offers the EU an important warning

Any move to grab more powers next year is going to end badly for politicians in Brussels.

Ben Roback: When the southern border opens, trouble will brew for Biden and Harris

White House allies are worried that neither are ready for the logistical and humanitarian impact of opening it.

Profile: Priti Patel, who promises to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats

It is harder for liberal critics to impute racism, or undue severity, to a Home Secretary who herself belongs to an ethnic minority.

Emily Carver: Young people overwhelmingly think socialism is a good idea. Access to capital is the only way to change that.

Their idealism over this ideology is fairly superficial. Even so, Conservatives must do more to reverse the trend.

After three by-elections and before tomorrow’s Covid announcement, here are five big challenges for Johnson

The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.

Phoebe Arslanagić-Wakefield: The Government must give EU nationals the security they deserve

A requirement for digital-only proof raises questions around reliability and digital exclusion.

John Redwood: The UK’s reliance on cheap labour to fill occupational shortages has always been wrong – and a barrier to innovation

If a business has easy access to low paid labour it will put off improving its technological processes.

Alex Morton: Ministers can have more houses or higher immigration. But they won’t be able to get away with both.

Annual net migration currently suggests 55,000 more homes a year since the 2014 projections – more than the entire rise planned after the housing row.

Tom Hunt: Soft sentencing is causing voters to lose faith in the justice system. And it’s up to the Government to put it right.

When it comes to law and order, it is undeniable that our voters are in favour of firm policies to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour.

Richard Holden: Improving future pensions – and why our next move should be more help for more young workers.

And we chat to the young waiter, the question I’m asking is: “why wait until young people are 22 for auto-enrolment to begin?”

Stephen Booth: Switzerland’s painstaking negotiations with the EU tell us a lot about our future relationship with Brussels

We can expect greater divergence, whether we like it or not, and should focus on our diplomatic relationships outside the bloc.