Darren Grimes: “Hey folks, eat out and spend more – no, not you, fatty. And here’s a new tax for you, consumer-friendly online retailer.”

We should have a laser-like focus on reducing the tax burden, instead of relying on nannying to get us off of our bottoms.

Radical: An open letter to Liz Truss. We urge you to see through your commitment to protect single sex spaces.

Making GRCs making GRCs available on demand would destabilise all manner of legal structures, from equal pay to sex discrimination law to criminal law. 

Crispin Blunt and Sue Pascoe: It’s time to correct the stoking of alarm and spreading of misinformation about trans people

As a Party, we should hold out a helping hand to all those who still face the difficulties of daily life – who still cannot be their authentic selves.

Darren Grimes: Today, it’s Conservatives who are the real rebels – against woke conformity and the cancel culture

The more of us that come out of the closet – the political one – the more tolerant and reflective our culture will become.

Luke Evans: Snapshot from Bosworth. We haven’t beaten the Coronavirus. But nor are we letting it beat us.

The vast majority of those who follow the rules have enabled those of us outside Leicester to avoid a second lockdown so far.

Robert Halfon: Johnson delivers for the workers but Starmer could win back their votes

Never underestimate the power of Labour. Its message of helping the underdog and the poor is enduring, still popular and extremely potent.

Polling snapshot. Is the statues and history fracas helping to solidify the Conservative vote?

The blue share in the poll of polls hit 43 per cent on June 2 and hasn’t moved the best part of a month later.

Polling snapshot. Coming out of lockdown, Starmer’s election and disillusion with the Government are returning us to politics as normal.

There is no evidence from the poll of polls that the Dominic Cummings affair speeded up what has been a steady Tory decline since mid-April.

We hope and expect Johnson will be back by May 8. But if he isn’t, Raab must lead in easing the lockdown.

The art will be to do so in such a way that the NHS can cope with a rise in admissions. And social distancing for the most vulnerable must remain in place.

Luke Evans: What I learnt from my own experience in intensive care with pneumonia about goals and setbacks

I’ve faith that people are focused on that bigger picture, which drives reported levels of understanding and appreciation, if not necessarily popularity.

James Frayne: Public opinion on the lockdown is a rapidly ticking timebomb

If employers consider themselves to be heading for catastrophe, it suggests that the wider public will catch up before too long.

“There has been a collapse of confidence in the media.” Robbie Gibb’s Twitter thread.

Trust in the government has gone up, according to Kekst CNC – and the results point the same way across the four countries polled.

James Frayne: The BBC’s growing problem isn’t public hostility. It’s apathy. Fewer people see the point of it.

The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.

Carol Matthews: We need fairer investment and supply to level up housing in the North

In the second piece in our mini-series, the Chair of Homes for the North argues that driving public investment in housing towards the South East is not sustainable.

A good election for the pollsters, but most still under-estimated the Tories

The result will probably offer some respite to an industry which has previously come in for a lot of flak from certain quarters for misrepresenting the state of the race.