Nick King: The Chancellor should look to Laffer for Budget inspiration and cut taxes

The Treasury often fails to recognise the potential benefits of lower taxes, because they don’t properly factor in how behaviour changes.

Tim Pitt: Sunak should walk in Howe’s footsteps and make the Conservative case for tax rises

We are in danger of losing sight of the simple truth which has been a favoured phrase of Tory politicians through the ages: borrowing today is simply taxation deferred.

The real question isn’t which airport we build, but how to get better at building anything

If there’s one thing which ought to unite even the most passionate partisans of the different proposals, it’s the abject state of British decision-making on infrastructure.

Ryan Bourne: The real Budget question on borrowing is not “could we?” but “should we?”

My answer would be “maybe, provided the spending or tax cuts significantly improved our growth potential.”

A brief history of Fiscal Rules

They keep changing. But does it matter? For the last 30 years, when it comes to the public finances, the diet always starts tomorrow.

WATCH: “I stick by our spending plans from our 2019 Manifesto” – Long-Bailey

The Labour leadership contender adds that “we should never be ashamed of investing in our public services.”

The Treasury fights back. How it plans to drive radical reform – and become “the Government’s internal think tank”

Would the Government have the bottle for planning, childcare and police overhauls – and will Downing Street sign up to this plan anyway?

David Gauke: As a non-Tory at the last election, my worry is that this Government won’t be Conservative enough

As a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I am uneasy about the bail-out of Flybe. Every time a private business is bailed out by the taxpayer, the pressure grows.

John O’Connell: Why supporters of low taxes should be optimistic about this Government

The Prime Minister’s spending commitments sit alongside welcome proposals for devolution and reform.

Neil O’Brien: Policies for a new Britain – in which the central point for new Tory MPs is the moors on the edge of Sheffield

Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?

Tom Clougherty: Unless Labour resorts to printing money, higher income tax, NI or VAT are coming – for the many, not the few

That’s a legitimate political agenda, and people are quite welcome to vote for it. But they deserve to know what’s coming.

John O’Connell: The tax choice ahead. Johnson, and the highest burden since Attlee. Or Corbyn, and…the highest ever.

The tax burden isn’t a full measure of the size of the state. But it’s arguably the pre-eminent factor and certainly that which most concerns the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

Daniel Hannan: £1 million? £1 billion? £1 trillion? McDonnell is relying on you not knowing the difference.

Labour is banking on our innumeracy. I don’t say that they are taking us for fools. Plenty of clever and educated people can’t process numbers on that scale.

Sajid Javid: “The direct cost of Corbyn is confirmed: £1.2 trillion of extra spending over the next five years.”

And, the Chancellor notes in his Bolton speech, that excludes 59 Labour policies “which don’t have enough detail for us to cost fairly”.

Fabio Conti: Our manifesto shows why NHS workers should back the Conservatives

It presents an exciting agenda spanning everything from hiring more staff to investing in key infrastructure and supporting innovation.