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.

Nus Ghani: The Government must act to ban British companies from exploiting slave labour

If we can crack down on products complicit in illegal deforestation, we can do the same for those complicit in Chinese persecution of the Uyghurs.

Eamonn Ives: The Government should be doing all it can to give Britain’s green entrepreneurs a head start

The major industries of the future will be green, clean, and environmentally conscious. Without action we risk jobs, investment, and exports going overseas.

Ryan Bourne: If you want to feed hungry children, don’t target food poverty. Aim to reduce poverty as a whole.

Together with tax cuts and less regulation, higher or more extensive benefits look like better support for hungry children than vouchers.

Robert Sutton: Conservatives have abandoned free market principles in the quest for environmentalism

In trying to appease climate catastrophists, they run the risk of undermining a key pillar of their own ideology.

The EU trade talks. Whether there’s a deal or not, we will be out of transition soon. Ministers should be ready to make the most of it.

The Government should be mulling some quick Brexit wins come the New Year – ways of using freedoms that we don’t have during implementation.

İbrahim Özdemir: How the UK’s new forest protection law will beat the EU at its own game

British proposals for supply-chain certification offers a comprehensive solution based on partnership between producer and consumer nations.

Sajid Javid: We need a strategy for putting the country back on a secure financial footing.

Consequently, our third and most important priority is the vigorous pursuit of growth – set our country on a path of solid and sustained expansion.

Bernard Jenkin: If necessary, we must pass legislation that will nullify the direct effect and direct applicability of EU laws

It may be good tough talk to speak of breaking international law, but it does not engender respect.  His exact words were not even factually correct. 

Johnny Leavesley: The Chancellor must find the courage to cut taxes and make it easier to hire

A conventional budget of tax rises and spending cuts sizeable enough to begin to make our national debt affordable will constrict growth.

Ben Southwood: Yes, the current planning system really is at the root of Britain’s housing crisis

The Local Government Association points the finger at developers, but their interpretation of the evidence is misleading.

Daniel Pryor: Letting asylum seekers work is common-sense Conservatism

The ban blocks paid work in favour ofhandouts, maintains barriers to integration, and hobbles our vulnerable economy with unnecessary red tape.

Andrew Selous: It’s time for the Government to step up the war on obesity

From supermarkets and sugar taxes to surgery, there are a broad range of options at the Prime Minister’s disposal to get Britain’s weight under control.

Roderick Crawford: Brexit is the beginning of a journey to transform Britain

As a general set of principles for the UK global aims, we would do well to turn for inspiration and leadership to Churchill and Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter.

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.