Andrew Selous: The suggestion voters weren’t consulted on LTNs is wrong. Local elections suggest they approve.

Tory candidates in London, Manchester and Oxfordshire made their opposition to these schemes known. It didn’t win us votes.

Jayne Adye: It’s time to move beyond Brussels on financial services

Our exit from the EU should allow fresh thinking and a new regulatory approach – to allow the UK to reach its full economic potential.

The war on cars

A study is being used to justify more Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, a scheme that will hit plumbers, electricians and other tradesmen hardest.

Bim Afolami: The Olympic model of spotting and developing talent should be applied to academia

We need to focus on developing our brightest and most talented people, in a range of different fields, from a young age.

Raghib Ali: Systemic classism, not racism. Why the main factor in health and educational inequalities is deprivation, not race.

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

Darren Caplan: If you want a Global Britain, don’t turn off the TAP to the UK’s SME rail exporters

The Tradeshow Access Programme has been invaluable for the rail sector, and costs very little.

Johnson puts the case for more localism in England. Now he must deliver it.

The more radical his plans are, the more resistance there will be. But one can’t serve up a municipal omelette without breaking eggs.

Will Holloway: The Government can show it’s serious about levelling up by launching a National Plan for Manufacturing

It could take action to reduce industrial electricity costs, among other important steps.

Daniel Hannan: The City was always going to survive post-Brexit. But now we must diverge from EU rules, and allow it to prosper.

Brexit doesn’t just allow the City to make its regulatory regime more competitive; it obliges it to do so.

WATCH: Khan takes responsibility for 40 per cent of Londoners not taking the Covid jab

“I do”, he says, when Andrew Marr asks him who’s to blame – but he points out that London has had better uptake than other global cities.

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.

Martyn Evans: How brownfield regeneration in the North can unleash the Government’s levelling-up agenda

Now is the time to build the partnerships and financial support that will enable us to deliver on a vision for our communities.

Andrew Boff: London is not a Labour city. We can win if we put in the effort and run the right campaign.

Our results in the capital were uneven. We need to learn from where we did well – such as in Enfield and Romford.

Patrick Timms: A residential version of Portcullis House could help the civil service recruit better – and level up the UK

The State might be missing out on top talent, thanks to the obstacles that renting in London presents.

Nick King: Levelling up. The challenge is less defining it than delivering it, for which Johnson will need the private sector.

The first of a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about the most distinctive of the Prime Minister’s big aims.