Meghan Gallacher: As we fight the biggest battle of our adult lives, compassion has prevailed in North Lanarkshire

Many local councillors, from across the political divide, have been setting up community groups, engaging with vulnerable people.

Matt Gillow and Jack Powell: Our liberties need championing more than ever in a post-Coronavirus world

From healthcare to housing to trade, there are numerous areas that need transforming when we return to normality.

Rally round Raab

The Government needs to give shape and definition to its backroom plans to end the lockdown. His colleagues must support the man in charge.

Luke Evans: It feels here that this week is the lull coming before the storm that you hope will never arrive

I’m acutely aware that in our rural communities, where we are a few weeks behind major cities, knowing someone in hospital is more rare.

Robert Halfon: We will need a Remembrance Day to honour our Corona Heroes

Plus: And a Coronavirus Social Justice Minister. Give thanks for Starmer. And: it’s time for a Virtual Parliament.

Ed Hall: The heroes of the struggle against the virus are Little Britons, not the Big State

The part of the country that is working well is the part that is not waiting for people in a risk-averse chain of centralised command to make a decision.

Andy Street: What we’re doing in the West Midlands to combat the coronavirus.

If you really want to see how we’re pulling together, the best example is taking shape now at the NEC, outside Birmingham – the new NHS Nightingale Hospital.

We hope that the Prime Minister will soon be back to his usual swashbuckling self. Until then, Raab should take over.

The choice is between this imperfect option and a worse one – which is letting the ship of state drift amidst a storm unprecented in its nature and reach. 

The question isn’t whether to end the lockdown. It’s when and how to do it. Can the Government rise to the challenge?

The Prime Minister’s hospitalisation accentuates the need for a new strategic structure to support a new strategic plan.

Liam Fox: The virus – what it is, what it means, and the two options open to Ministers for phasing out the shutdown

Whatever model is adopted or whatever alternative proposal is deemed better, the public need to know that there is an exit strategy in place.

Jay Singh-Sohal: We are being challenged in ways our country has not seen since the Second World War

The loss of our liberties is no good or easy thing to accept.  While our social life disappears, what we do have is time.

Can Starmer surprise us?

He will have to be more than a kind of North London John Smith if he wants to do more than just profit from the Government’s misfortunes. 

Brandon Lewis: In Northern Ireland, people are pulling together in amazing ways to combat the virus

I am redoubling my engagement with its business community, which needs to know that our committment to ensuring UK connectivity remains strong.

Henry Hill: Anger grows as devolution hinders coordinated response to the Covid-19 crisis

Also: Opposition parties force the SNP to abandon a bid to suspend trial by jury; and more good reading on the fallout from Alex Salmond’s acquittal.

John Redwood: The Government should prepare for a return to normal work for people not in the vulnerable categories

We are looking at a possible deep recession, with a big surge in jobless and the loss of substantial capacity to produce goods and services for the future.