Paul Howell and Heather Wheeler: Full HS2 is critical to our election commitment to rebalance the economy

We cannot waste the opportunity that our Government’s high-speed rail investment plans presents.

“We have been terrific at pure research, and useless at translational research.” What our industrial strategy should aim to change.

The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.

The Great Reset (of property)

The pandemic offers the Government an inadvertent opportunity to “level up” Britain through the working from home revolution.

A new property tax would bring rises. Business rates reform could mean cuts. Is Sunak mulling both?

WPI Economics, which has been crunching numbers for the first, has also taken an interest in the second.

Ryan Bourne: Ministers must speed up the pace of vaccination. Here are some ways of doing so.

Government sometimes treats the constraints fatalistically, rather than seeing them as a problem that prices, incentives, and regulations could affect. 

Ted Christie-Miller: Everything must change if Britain is to hit its Net Zero target. How are we going to manage it?

If politicians are going to take voters with them, we need to be honest about the trade offs and develop policies to help those who stand to lose out.

Why Conservative backbench resistance to the Government’s Covid strategy may be fading away

Five reasons why Hancock’s announcement of tougher restrictions yesterday met less resistance than might have been expected.

Rachel Wolf: Johnson’s re-set choice. He can focus on the Just About Managing. Or go after Affluent Britain. But not both.

The manifesto path means doing things now. The Cameroon path relies on a public rejection of much said before. A vague agenda in the middle won’t cut it.

David Gauke: With a position so exposed, how did Burnham get away with it?

It is a bad sign both for the Government and devolution that the Greater Manchester Mayor has been able to run rings round Ministers.

Ian Howells: Hybrids are the key to delivering the Government’s climate transport goals in the UK

The UK can and should achieve its ambitious emissions reductions targets. But it will only get there by making the most of all energy sources and technologies.

Gareth Davies: A new British Development Bank could drive our national recovery

The UK has never had such an independent institution despite the model being a tremendous success in other countries around the world.

Neil O’Brien: The next algorithm disaster – coming to a Conservative constituency near you. This time, it’s housing growth.

Most Tory MPs will be seeing large increases in the housing targets for their seats, while many Labour MPs see their local targets reduced.

Darren Grimes: Johnson must face down the teaching unions with Thatcher-like resolve

The Prime Minister will be rejected by the aspirational working class that voted for him in large numbers if he cannot win this battle.

Andy Street: One, two, three – it’s a hat-trick of coming Conservative Party conferences for Birmingham

This decision reiterates the political importance of the UK’s cities to our party – and we must aim for a blue-led council in 2022.

Ed McGuinness: Getting everyone back to work will save the economy

We must adapt or risk a lasting hit to one of the world’s economic command centres. A booster shot is needed to avert a smaller economy.