The Greensill saga must not become a pretext for reducing ministers’ access to outside expertise

This astonishing story threatens much more than David Cameron’s reputation. Who will stand up for ‘weirdos and misfits’?

Emily Carver: Politicians’ refusal to discuss NHS reform is cowardly at best and sinister at worst

Failing to implement – or even entertain the notion of – change helps no-one, aside from perhaps a handful who use the health service for cheap populism.

Barney Campbell: The case for a new national service scheme – driven by incentives, not compulsion

Doing more to incentivise recruitment is not only good for the Armed Forces, but benefits the rest of society too.

A looming battle between the Government and the health unions? Welcome back, old normal.

It makes sense to focus on a private-sector recovery, but a low pay offer to NHS workers sits badly alongside a record deal for teachers last year.

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.

Iain Dale: Let’s hear it for the private sector and hear less about a bigger state

McDonnell wanted a state-run pharmaceutical industry. So now we will never know how it would got on with producing Covid vaccines.

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.

Liam Fox: Today, the Chancellor should aim to boost an unambiguously private sector-led recovery

Before pumping more funding into the public sector, we must restore the habit of making sure we have the money in the bank before we start spending it.

James Heywood: The case for public sector pay restraint is founded on fairness

The Government will need to think carefully about how any change to policy is presented, and the approach should be nuanced and flexible.

Dean Godson: It’s easier for the right to move left on economics than for the left to move right on culture. That’s a plus for Johnson.

The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

Doug Stokes: The Conservatives must rally to the flag of the Enlightenment tradition as the culture wars rage

It is quite shocking that the Equality Act has been left totally unreformed, since it has morphed into the central juridical weapon of the left.

Iain Dale: Cameron – blamed by Remainers, scorned by Leavers. But in many ways, he changed the country for good.

Plus: Publishing diaries – do you keep in all the salacious details, or take some out to avoid upsetting people? Sasha Swire takes route one.

Ryan Bourne: A message for Johnson and Sunak on tax rises. Not now. And not these.

Modest consolidation over decades is one thing; large increases over a Parliament would be quite another.

Nicky Morgan: Ministers must act swiftly to avoid a disaster – bailiffs abusing vulnerable people over council tax arrears

Aggressive and intimidating enforcement plagued our system long before Covid: now is not the time to cross our fingers and hope that this might change.

Howard Flight: Parkinson’s Law revisited

The NHS employs 1.75 million people and is too monolithic. The number of civil servants has risen to 460,000. This is territory which the Chancellor needs to examine in detail.