Chris Ham: A tax rise to better fund the NHS is gaining Conservative support

At the same time as putting in more money, there must be a credible plan to spend it effectively – including improvements to how care is delivered.

Which taxes should Tories cut? 2) Andrew Lilico: Reduce stamp duty to free up the housing market

The second piece in our series on reducing taxes also argues that in the longer term we should seek to return to a two-rate Income Tax system.

George Maggs: How to reform the NHS. It needs independence. Hypothecated funds. And a constitution.

People will not accept any arrangement that isn’t funded through the tax system and free at the point of use. So we have to find a way of making the current model work.

Robert Halfon: My budget for the workers

Cutting the cost of living. Building more houses. Protecting the NHS. Developing skills. A draft of the proposals Hammond should deliver.

Spreadsheet Phil must become Storyteller Phil – if his Budget is to succeed where the Tory conference failed

The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.

Iain Dale: Wotcha, Peston. WTF are you on?

My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.

Alex Wild: Build houses, abolish NICs for people under 30. How to win younger peoples’ votes.

The youth vote is not one homogenous lump: more than half of school leavers won’t go to university, and won’t benefit from more generous student loan terms.

Owen Meredith: Policy reform can unite the party ahead of Manchester

Employment, taxation, and three environment are three areas where we can show the Tory agenda is bigger than Brexit.

May’s Calendar Girl Queen’s Speech

A lot on Brexit; not much elsewhere. The lack of a majority leaves the Prime Minister exposed – whatever may happen with the DUP.

Our survey. Three in five Party member respondents want the tax pledge dumped.

Two in three are opposed. The finding is part of nearly five thousand replies, our biggest-ever reader response.

John O’Connell: The Tory Manifesto. It should commit to scrapping HS2, ending the triple lock – and reforming the NHS.

This first piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that the Conservatives must get serious about living within our means.

Dealing with diesel

Government encouraged drivers to switch to it. Now some want to penalise them for doing so.

Howard Flight: The Government must end this campaign against the self-reliant

By scrambling to protect traditional revenues from a changing economy, the Treasury is sending entirely the wrong economic signals.

The debate about Britain’s future is already settled. There will be an Open Brexit – because we have no other choice.

There is much more to politics than an affordable state and competitive taxes. But both will be indispensible for survival, let alone prosperity, after we leave the EU.

Iain Dale: The election expenses allegations – and the mysterious absence of Feldman

Well, it’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?