Ryan Bourne: Don’t write off the Budget. It showed that the Treasury is taking incentives and tax coherence seriously again.

The Chancellor extolled principles that point to the possibility of meaningful pro-growth reform of how revenues are raised.

John Redwood: We’re free of EU membership and can motor to our own destiny. But still drive nervously in L-plates. Why?

There should be a growth target to complement the inflation target – to drive government departments to take actions that will promote more UK activity and jobs.

Gerard Lyons: The Budget. It was right for the Chancellor to focus on providing a stronger foundation for growth.

Yesterday he sent a powerful message about the need to build a stronger economy, with a focus on innovation and investment.

Emily Carver: Our nation’s biggest shortage may not be HGV drivers or turkeys, but optimism

Panic has gripped the nation – and is leading politicians to make flawed decisions.

Emily Carver: If the public face of COP26 won’t buy an electric car, don’t expect the nation to be on board with Net Zero

Setting a target for three decades in the future is illusory, lending itself to virtue-signalling and ill-thought-out measures.

David Gauke: There are signs that the Treasury is winning – and that more tax rises are coming.

The overseas aid and Universal Credit decisions suggest that, for the first time in a while, the cause of fiscal conservatism is gaining the upper hand.

Craig Mackinlay: The Government is fooling itself if it thinks it can go down the Net Zero path without electoral damage

We should pause for breath, inject some rational thinking and consider the alternatives before it’s too late.

Does the Climate Change Committee have too much power?

The second piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.

John Redwood: Why now that we have left the EU are we still yoked to Maastricht austerity?

What we need is to promote a higher wage, higher productivity economy. Our economic targets should reflect those aims.

Are Johnson and Sunak preparing the way for a snap election in 2023?

The Budget was, if truly honest, a sign that the Government shuns spending cuts and embraces tax rises – which is ultimately unsustainable.

The Budget should be a big reset moment for post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. It risks being lost amidst a rush to tax rises.

It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.

David Gauke: My Budget advice to the Chancellor. Raise income tax, not corporation tax.

We need to have a debate about which taxes are least damaging to economic growth. Over the long term, corporation tax ranks as being one of the worst.

Sunak opts to suck it and see

The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.

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.

Luke Stanley: With rising unemployment, Ministers should look beyond work-related paths out of crime – to families

Research has found that offenders visited in prison by their family were less likely to reoffend within a year of release than those who were not.