What Thatcher’s response to the AIDS crisis teaches us about tackling the present pandemic

The proposals published today to make England the first country to end new cases of HIV fit within a Tory tradition of pragmatic health policy.

Alan Mak: The NHS Reserves will be a permanent, positive legacy of this challenging year

Building on the long tradition of Conservative reform, they will give hundreds of thousands of people a chance to support the Health Service.

Neil O’Brien: Tomorrow’s Covid vote. We must stick to the plan – and stick together.

Every MP wants to make sure restrictions in their area are as limited as possible. But we’re close to the end now. Let’s not fall near the finish line.

WATCH: Hancock announces the new Covid-19 tiers for England

“January and February are always difficult months for the NHS, so it is vital we safeguard the gains we’ve made. We must protect our NHS this winter.”

Caroline Johnson: Tiers are a tough but necessary step for the country. We must hold our nerve over winter.

With the Government securing 350 million doses of vaccines, and community testing in development, we are starting to win the war against Covid-19.

Ryan Bourne: Calm down, stay cool – and drop this talk of tax rises. It’s too early to know how everything will settle down.

It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.

Liam Fox: Today, the Chancellor should aim to boost an unambiguously private sector-led recovery

Before pumping more funding into the public sector, we must restore the habit of making sure we have the money in the bank before we start spending it.

Chris Hossack: The costs of the lockdown have not been honestly presented. Not least that it is killing our high streets.

The blanket approach centred on regional and economic shutdown isn’t working.

Dean Godson: It’s easier for the right to move left on economics than for the left to move right on culture. That’s a plus for Johnson.

The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

Robert Halfon: Who’s up for a Southern Research Group?

There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.

Amy Selman: How to be a campaigner and a governor – lessons from Johnson’s time as London’s mayor

Here’s both what his team did and how it communicated – deploying the discipline of the second to boost the first.

Why Cummings’ departure creates new problems for Johnson’s Brexit strategy

The former Chief Adviser has had little to do with the negotiation recently, but his leaving has knock-on effects on it. Here’s why.

Bob Seely: Lessons from the Cummings era about leadership, decentralisation, localism – and making more use of MPs

Compare and contrast how government works with what the Armed Forces do – and their practice of decentralised command.

Andrea Leadsom and Miriam Cates: The extraordinary possibilities of digital should be mobilised to help parents, young children and families

It can never replace face to face help that families need, but it can provide quick answers, useful signposting and help to combat loneliness.

Judy Terry: The East of England Ambulance Service needs to be put under new management

“Special measures” are ineffective unless the failing culture is challenged. Local accountability is lacking.