WATCH: Double-vaccinated NHS staff do not have to self-isolate – Zahawi

The vaccines minister says it’s not necessary for NHS workers to self-isolate even if they are pinged by the test and trace app.

After three by-elections and before tomorrow’s Covid announcement, here are five big challenges for Johnson

The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson wishes to remain in office for another ten or 20 years, so goes on the defensive

Labour has not yet found a way to beat the Prime Minister, but it does sometimes force him to play safe.

Richard Holden: The Chancellor shouldn’t try to win a spending arms race with Labour – which we would lose anyway

Perhaps the simplest way of putting it is: it’s all about economic credibility, stupid. Because come 2024, it certainly will be.

Richard Holden: Access to cash. Here in County Durham, it matters to voters. Sunak should help to guarantee it.

For many in my community – particularly those on tight budgets, pensioners, and people trying to manage their way out of debt – cash is what they live by.

Matt Oakley: Hancock’s tech revolution is key to reducing mental ill health among NHS workers

Digital silos are slowing NHS staff down, causing unnecessary stress, and creating huge inefficiencies and security issues at the heart of the service.

Paul Bristow: The biggest challenge for our NHS may still lie ahead, but it’s also an opportunity

A national effort led by the Government is required to clear the backlog of operations and treatments. We can do this.

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.

The economy and the virus. Tear up the rulebook – we need Big State Government on a scale unknown in modern times.

The implications of the crisis are such that Johnson and Sunak need not so much to think outside the box as to trample it to tatters altogether.

Robert Halfon: Let licence fee payers vote for the BBC’s next Director-General.

Plus: More Ronseal, please. And: If the Treasury wants to flick multiple V-signs at blue collar voters, it will put up fuel duty.

Matt Hancock: With this One Nation Conservative Government in place, we can greet this New Year with excitement and optimism

We have the mandate and the majority. Let’s make 2020 a year of progress and work now to set up a decade we can all be proud of.

James Cleverly: We need one last push, with your help, to deliver Brexit, stop Corbyn – and win

In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,

Rachel Wolf: Twenty policy questions for the aspiring Conservative leadership candidates.

Lots of people want to know what the next Prime Minister will do for the country on everything other than Brexit.

The reaction to the NHS pay offer shows that relaxing austerity will not be as easy as some imagine

It might please nurses, but provokes new pay demands from teachers, doctors and soldiers. Nor would a hypothecated ‘NHS Tax’ make the issue go away.