Roger Gough: Levelling up. We need to move from county deals to county relationships.

Some of the arguments for a directly elected or mayoral model seem to be set up against a straw man.

John Redwood: Ministers must hold professional managers to account for public sector performance

The present division of responsibility helps individuals avoid accountability, and taxpayers pay for it.

Interview: George Osborne – “Whatever you’re doing in terms of devolution, double it. In terms of local taxation, double it.”

In the run up to the White Paper on Levelling Up, our interview with the former Chancellor opens this week’s ConHome series on localism.

Andy Street: Parliamentary candidates with experience of the real world is invaluable. Here is an example.

Neil Shastri-Hurst’s experience in the army and the NHS would stand him in good stead as MP for North Shropshire.

Richard Holden: It’s time for the Government to make more of Tory MPs’ achievements and fewer errors itself

The Health and Social Care Bill contains some important measures that you won’t see splashed broadly across the mainstream media.

Jeremy Hunt: My move today to ensure that we train enough doctors and nurses for the future

The amendment doesn’t require more spending – just regular estimates of the staff that should be trained in each speciality. 

Neil Carmichael: Levelling up must include improving access to NHS dentistry

Failing to do so will see it become the next workforce crisis in the headlines.

Mark Jenkinson: My Twitter monstering. I never thought that saying there are two biological sexes would cause such a stir.

I’m concerned that the Gender Conversion Therapy Bill will criminalise parents who don’t simply affirm their child’s chosen gender.

WATCH: The Health Secretary warns the number on the NHS waiting list “will go up before it goes down”

Javid admits “it’s not just a question of winter pressures.” 5.9 million people are waiting for elective procedures.

John Baron: The change that the NHS needs to help catch cancer early – and save lives

My proposed amendment to the Health and Care Bill would ensure that outcome measures are put above process targets by NHS England.

Lisa Townsend: Balancing the nation’s finances with policing needs is the priority for PCCs like me

I want to ensure that every pound that goes into policing makes us safer, while also protecting the taxpayer.

Forcing doctors to work in deprived places – and the intellectual collapse of levelling up

A problem that £20,000 in hard cash hasn’t solved needs a more imaginative solution than brute force.

Emily Carver: The individual no longer seems to count in our identity-obsessed society

A new report into the NHS workforce uses immutable characteristics to decide how well employees should be doing at work.

James Frayne: The Conservatives’ new working class base would voice little opposition if the party rolled back the state

Polls show they’re more in favour of lower taxes than professionals and believe that much of Government spending is wasted.

David Frost: The Northern Ireland Protocol is damaging the peace was designed to protect. And so must be revised.

We need to deliver a more robust, and more balanced, outcome than we could in 2019.