Will Green: I’m a Labour supporter – but here’s why I believe that Universal Basic Income wouldn’t work

Effectively, for much of the population, UBI would merely take their money and then give it back to them. What’s the point?

Robert Halfon: Britain is now a moderate social democratic state

Whether moderate right Conservative, or moderate left, austerity is dead, and this new age will be with us for a long time to come.

Britain moves nearer to a full quarantine. Now watch for the moves to isolate Johnson.

The perils and volatility that the Coronavirus – that ultimate leveller-down – brings with it suddenly endanger last year’s near-landslide winner.

The rights and wrongs of the Government’s treatment of the self-employed

The Chancellor should make further provision for them. But the vast though necessary expansion of state spending will need emergency powers-type checks.

Is Sunak being dragged in the direction of a Universal Basic Income?

Some form of the scheme may be necessary as an expedient. But beware: nothing lasts so long as the temporary.

The Moggcast. The Government must tackle the virus with “evidence rather than emotion”.

Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Government’s strategy – and how MPs over 70 can use the pairing system to stay away from Parliament.

Daily press conferences – and what should happen next

Needed during the coming weeks: a Government information campaign for older people, their families, employers and businesses.

WATCH: The government should have been buying up ventilators “weeks ago” – Ashworth

“Ministers urgently need to reassure us they have a resourcing plan in place to support NHS staff,” he says.

Budget 1) This was less a Conservative Budget than “the People’s Budget”. From a Vote Leave Government – not the usual Tory one.

It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.

Budget 2) John Glen: The challenges we face of the virus and of weak productivity can’t be met by the repetition of small state mantras

The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.

Andrew Gimson’s Budget sketch: Sunak the model schoolboy dominates the House

The Government has a new star.

Labour are fools to pick a fight with Phillips

He has claimed that the campaign against him is a political tactic – to distract from Labour’s record on anti-semitism.

Trevor Phillips: What’s driving Labour’s unjust suspension of my membership? Could it be a cynical ploy to put pressure on the Tories?

This would be the very definition of political corruption – using the party’s influence to intimidate a legally independent institution would be reprehensible.

WATCH: McDonnell – “There’s always a bit of a tussle”, but Labour is not riven by factional warfare

The Shadow Chancellor responds to allegations from Lisa Nandy about the hard left’s conduct during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

British politics begins self-isolation

It froze up during Brexit stasis, thawed when Boris Johnson won his majority – and is closing down again as the coronavirus advances.