Anna Firth: How we are helping to protect children in Sevenoaks from digital harm

Using our extensive links with schools, charities and parents, we have designed an array of internet safety measures.

Tom Bell: Councils should raise their readiness for cyber attacks

More than one in four councils was subject to a serious security breach in the last five years. Given the sensitive nature of the information held, security needs to be improved.

There’s a case for an ‘Amazon tax’, but it isn’t saving the high street

The online retail revolution has brought more convenience and lower prices to millions. Fighting it is an unworthy mission for a pro-consumer party.

Web regulation must not become a matter of stopping the ‘wrong people’ from winning

If social networks are common spaces, they must be open to both left and right. Conservatives must take the lead to ensure oversight is fair.

Anna Firth: Parents have a vital role to play in keeping children safe online

We can’t depend on the Government or internet providers to empower young people to use the internet safely.

David Mytton: Councils should share the same IT platform

What needs to be customised about email? Or file storage? Or even how council tax IT systems work? We can save money, improve security, and provide a better service.

Building a safer Britain: Rudd’s speech in full

“We need to disrupt plots in their early stages. Many such plots will include some element of online radicalisation.”

Ministers should make a show of ensuring driverless vehicles are safe

The risks might seem a bit science-fiction now, but they’re real and could create strong headwinds of public scepticism against this new technology.

David Mytton: It’s time to regulate internet-connected device security

Just as with electrical and product safety certifications, there needs to be a standard which is enforced for the software elements of all such products before they can be sold.

Jonathan Glanz: Bringing the “sharing economy” within the law

We need to safeguard local residents and and traditional businesses.

Richard Morgan: CCHQ must rebuild its digital strategy from the ground up

Bland, uniform national messaging failed just as hard online as it did on the ground. The Party is playing catch-up, and must get it right.

Iain Duncan Smith: We must face hard truths about homegrown extremism

This problem may have started abroad, but it is now here, in our own society. It must be dealt with.

WATCH: Rudd calls for ‘back door’ into commercial encryption

“You can’t have a situation where warranted information is needed, perhaps to stop an attack like the one last week, and it can’t be accessed.”

WATCH: Abbott talks about the case for a parliamentary inquiry into racist and sexist abuse

The Shadow Home Secretary says social media is being used to ‘poison the political debate’, and that internet providers need to ‘do more to close down these people’.

Phil Hall: How the Government can make a success of Making Tax Digital

Most important is delivering the programme on a practical timescale rather than a political one.