Liam Fox: How MPs can better hold Ministers to account over their handling of the Coronavirus

We need more information, transparency and scrutiny. A committee on the model of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards is required.

Tim Ambler: How to replace quangos

We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.

Meg Russell and Ruth Fox: How a virtual Parliament should work. Questions – and some answers.

It should not expect to resurrect ‘business as usual’. The key priority is scrutiny of Government action and managing the crisis.

We need the Commons back urgently – and if that means a Virtual Parliament, then so be it.

The date at which lockdown should end is debatable.  That MPs and peers should be debating it is not.

Robert Halfon: We will need a Remembrance Day to honour our Corona Heroes

Plus: And a Coronavirus Social Justice Minister. Give thanks for Starmer. And: it’s time for a Virtual Parliament.

Full membership list of select committees

The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

The shuffle doesn’t just mould the Government, it also shapes the Select Committees which scrutinise it

In a nice piece of constitutional give-and-take, a more loyal minister-class makes for a potentially more troublesome set of Tory Select Committee chairmen.

Sponsored Post: Mike Moser: The EFRA committee’s fur inquiry recommends a pragmatic way forward

Those who wish to wear fur and those who do not will both benefit from clearer labelling of fur products, backed up with stronger enforcement.

WATCH: Whittingdale’s tribute to Baroness Jowell

The former Chairman of the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee relates how they collaborated to win support for Britain’s Olympic bid.

Conservative Select Committee election results. A squeeze on places, “Very high turnout” – and some prominent losers.

Ability, popularity with colleagues and specialist knowledge seem to have mattered more in these elections than intake or ideology.

One isn’t enough

The Electoral Reform Society calculates that a tiny change in votes would have given May a bare majority last spring. But how much difference would this have made?

Iain Dale: The biggest gossip in politics is interviewed by the biggest gossip in politics and names the biggest gossip in politics

Plus: The decline of books. Morgan sees off the cult of Mogg. Why I won’t fly RyanAir. And: As I reach a significant birthday, I mull writing my autobiography…

Tugendhat, Morgan, Halfon elected. The new power of the Select Committees.

They already elect their chairmen and there will be fewer trips abroad – at least when the Commons is sitting. That means more scrutiny of what Ministers are up to.

Zac Goldsmith: Why I seek to become Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee

Brexit brings unique challenges and opportunities. And my background in campaigning on environmental issues equips me for the job.