Andy Street: It’s time to accept that HS2 is a done deal – part of caring for livelihoods as well as lives in our region

As the short-term economy comes under immense strain, we should support the UK’s biggest single long-term investment.

Simon Fell: Why there should be a permanent cut to business rates for retail

New research today by WPI Strategy categorically proves that the business rates burden is highest in northern towns such as Barrow and Leigh.

James Frayne: Coastal towns – next for the Conservatives after the Red Wall seats. And essential for a shore-to-shore majority.

I will be returning regularly to this theme: the need to create a mainstream English and Welsh majority from shore to shore.

Ian Howells: Hybrids are the key to delivering the Government’s climate transport goals in the UK

The UK can and should achieve its ambitious emissions reductions targets. But it will only get there by making the most of all energy sources and technologies.

Bob Seely: Ministers must revise the housing plan to give our cities the homes they need

How is it levelling up to concentrate new construction – and the associated infrastructure – in the South?

Richard Holden: If Starmer stands – or kneels – for each passing fad, he won’t rebuild trust with working class voters

The volte-face that he is currently trying to manage in seeking to defend a Withdrawal Agreement that he opposed is farcical.

Bob Seely: The Government must urgently re-assess its misguided housebuilding strategy

How can ministers claim to be ‘levelling up’ the country when they are slashing targets for the North and Midlands in favour of the overcrowded South?

James Frayne: Big tax rises would make Tory campaigning impossible – in Red Wall seats as well as traditionally blue ones

The public would catch up when growth slowed and redundancies rose. It would become clear that raising taxes on employers doesn’t help anyone.

Richard Holden: Across the “Blue Wall”, there’s little sign Starmer’s approach to the crisis has cut through

His “Goldilocks Politics” of “too much/too little, too fast/too slow” throughout the pandemic is unlikely to win over voters.

Andrew Mitchell: I used to be adamantly opposed to all forms of assisted dying. Here’s why I’ve changed my mind.

By the end of these meetings, I was invariably left with the overwhelming feelings that we would not let an animal we loved be treated in such a way.

Graham Gudgin: To meet its infrastructure ambitions, the Government should spend more on capital investment

It should take advantage of the current macro-economic environment afforded by low borrowing costs, to provide stable – and sizeable – funding.

Ray O’Rourke: A technological revolution is underway in construction. Here’s how the Government can speed it up.

A new approach has allowed building work to take place offsite, leading to gains in productivity and creating long-term, well-paid jobs.

Jake Scott: To defend the ‘Blue Wall’, Tory MPs must be prepared to defy the whip

To paraphrase Burke, they owe their Party, as much as their electors, the benefit of their independent, locally-informed judgement.

When it comes to dealing with its own MPs, this Government is out of its depth

Some of its problems can be fixed. Others won’t be. And one perhaps can’t be: namely, that this Parliament seems to be incapable of saying No.

James Frayne: More welfare spending. A business tax avoidance clampdown. The new economic policy that voters will want.

One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.