Chris Whitehouse: From the Isle of Wight, news of a Private Finance Initiative success

A highways partnership deal has resulted in fewer potholes, new street lighting – and saved a million pounds a year.

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

John Godfrey: We should celebrate long life, and adapt social care to it

A dignified old age should be a key legacy of the current Conservative government – here’s how we could make it a reality for everyone.

Bruce Newsome: The key problem with the NHS. Not resources, not culture – but a lack of accountability

The Department of Health must establish its own complaints office, which in turn must be accountable to the Secretary of State and thence to Parliament.

Alex Morton: May’s reform agenda will fail if it is driven from Downing Street alone

Placing every single decision in the hands of a tiny group is not a viable long-term strategy, but a recipe for total (nervous) breakdown.

Andrew Laird: Will it be full speed ahead for English devolution?

The Government has heard the message, and is dropping the mayoral requirement for rural counties seeking increased devolved power.

Andrew Laird: A new Conservative Government can show that fairness is the route to productivity

One place where there is unlikely to be any dithering is the West Midlands. The prospect of someone like Andy Street becoming mayor is hugely exciting.

Alex Morton: Will this election deliver the Joe Chamberlain-style conservatism that May really wants?

In her belief in “the good that government can do”, she is quite unique in terms of UK political post-war history.

The debate about Britain’s future is already settled. There will be an Open Brexit – because we have no other choice.

There is much more to politics than an affordable state and competitive taxes. But both will be indispensible for survival, let alone prosperity, after we leave the EU.

Andrew Laird: In the West Midlands, a public services revolution is brewing

Andy Street is the right candidate in the right place at the right time.

Alexander Hitchcock: We must modernise the out-of-date state

Embracing new technology and ways of working can make public services cheaper, more effective, and easier to use.

Cameron, radical punk – how he should want to be remembered

The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.

Andrew Laird: Requiring the NHS to balance its books would inspire new, radical ideas

The NHS desperately needs a regulatory environment which will force it to think more entrepreneurially and collaboratively.

Phil Hall: How the Government can make a success of Making Tax Digital

Most important is delivering the programme on a practical timescale rather than a political one.

Festus Akinbusoye: Prisons need more help to cut re-offending rates

Without sufficient staff and resources, governors will find it impossible to deliver the programmes prisoners need to avoid recidivism.