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.

Simon Fell: We can revitalise the North after Covid-19

We should be aggressively backing UK manufacturing, science and green tech as a key plank of our recovery.

Andy Street: NHS staff have invoked the Blitz spirit during these times. They must be rewarded for their gallantry.

As Lord Ashcroft wrote recently for ConservativeHome, the George Cross would be the best way to honour our heroes.

Prime Ministers and their health

History shows that they can usually weather health crises, and we hope and trust we shall soon see this one restored to his normal vigour.

WATCH: Sunak declares that “we will do whatever it takes.” The Government’s Coronavirus press conference.

“We must act like any war time government, and do whatever it takes to support our economy.”

Profile: Rishi Sunak, rising star of the Johnson project

He is tipped by some as a future Prime Minister, but is more plausibly seen as a future Chancellor.

May deserves better than this dull, lazy, superficial account of her prime ministership

Seldon’s latest book, composed in only six months, will at best be a quarry on which future historians can draw.

Welsh secretary resigns in row over aide’s role in rape trial

The Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, has today resigned after claims he knew about his former aide’s alleged role in “sabotaging” a rape trial.

Andy Street: Let business beat politics – and let’s build the nation’s first Gigafactory in the West Midlands

We can avoid the mistakes of the past by locating a new factory for electric car batteries in the regional home of vehicle manufacturing.

Richard Ekins: Why the Supreme Court should overturn last week’s ruling on prorogation

Courts should not interefere in Parliamentary processes, it is not their role, and the Supreme Court has no power to quash the prorogation.

The curse of Cameron

He cannot quite bring himself to say that he regrets the referendum that brought him down.

David Skelton: From Gateshead to ‘Ghosthead’, how our towns have declined

The Conservative Party could become the natural home for the urban working class if it revived these towns, David Skelton argues in his new book.

Vote Leave takes back control: the advisers and officers of Johnson’s new regime

Whilst his ministerial reshuffle has been making the headlines, the Prime Minister’s back-office appointments may be just as important to the fate of his government.

WATCH: Johnson’s first speech as Prime Minister – “We are going to restore trust in our democracy”

“The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters – they are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts.”

Nick Herbert: A ten point plan for the new government

A manifesto from Govern Up on how the Johnson administration can best get to grips with Whitehall – and deliver effectively.