Robert Halfon: Distracted by Covid, policymakers run the risk of creating a mental health epidemic in schools

Here are three measures the Department of Education should take to stop this from happening.

Khadeem Duncan-Banerjee: If the Government wants every school to become an academy, devolution is key

It should consider how it can give responsibilities to regional mayors and county councils.

John Redwood: We’re free of EU membership and can motor to our own destiny. But still drive nervously in L-plates. Why?

There should be a growth target to complement the inflation target – to drive government departments to take actions that will promote more UK activity and jobs.

Matthew Lesh: Funding isn’t enough to boost education. The Government must be radical and promote microschools.

There is clearly a demand by parents for a more bespoke education in a smaller class size.

David Gauke: Sunak’s options for a Budget windfall. Lower debt, tax cuts and higher spending. Which will he choose?

The Chancellor will have have more money to play with than was forecast. How he uses these additional resources will tell us a great deal about his priorities.

Robert Halfon: Reshuffles. The soreness of being sacked. And how to bounce back.

As a Committee Chair, you can campaign for the things you believe in, speak to the media more freely – and still get things done.

Bim Afolami: After the reshuffle, back to the future – NHS queues, rising energy bills, and higher prices

For all the focus elsewhere, the most important domestic department for the next two years will be the Department of Health.

Nick Gibb: My advice to my successors at Education. Don’t scrap GCSEs or ease up on standards.

It’s hard work, but the progressive ideology has not gone away. It would be a tragedy for future generations if we gave in and settled for an easier life.

David Gauke: Who should be the next Education Secretary?

The most important quality for the next Secretary of State, I would have thought, is as a problem-solver/fire fighter.

Dragging down private schools would be no way to close the attainment gap

An external comparator is a useful way of measuring the relative impact of various waves of public sector education reform.

Michael Goode: How to close the inspiration gap in schools between students’ ability and their outcomes

Looking back on my schooldays, I can see how little we had in terms of inspiration. We simply didn’t know what we could aim for.

Raghib Ali: Systemic classism, not racism. Why the main factor in health and educational inequalities is deprivation, not race.

The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.

Ryan Bourne: The tax hikes that could fall in the south. And tear the Tory coalition apart

The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,

Reports of Johnson’s political demise are greatly exaggerated

But this electoral Titan has an Achilles heel – tax rises which, rather than planning or HS2, are the real threat to future Chesham & Amershams.

Guy Opperman: In the North East, Labour’s Red Wall continues to crumble – here’s where we can win next

In my view, no Labour seat in County Durham is safe. The remaining seats all have majorities under 6,000.