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.

Bim Afolami: After the Budget, we won’t deliver levelling up without putting economic growth first

Without it, we won’t be able to have better public services, less debt and lower deficits, or a fairer deal for younger people.

Gerard Lyons: The three-arrowed approach to economic policy that Britain needs

When he was Mayor of London, I outlined to Boris Johnson how we have the potential to become the largest economy in western Europe.

Richard Holden: Why are we still shackled by EU rules that force investment abroad?

Essentially, the Solvency 2 regulations make it difficult for our pensions and insurance firms to invest in long-term, secure, fixed assets in the UK.

David Gauke: Johnson’s party is more socially conservative, populist and economically interventionist. But how much?

There is evidence, however, that suggests that the move to abandoning all recent Tory traditions is not quite so straightforward.

Churchill, walking with destiny. Johnson, winking at destiny.

His biggest strength now is that to a mass of people who don’t follow politics he is a Given, A Fact – like Thatcher, Blair or the weather.

A tale of two conferences – and the start of overdue debate about our economic future

The auditorium may be dull but the fringe is not – as questions from our past haunt the future, such as: will the productivity gains come?

The transition conference. Twelve curtain-raisers for the Tories in Manchester.

Against a post-pandemic background of shortages, prices rises and higher taxes, how much protest will there be over the growing size of the state?

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.

James Frayne: Johnson’s headroom to raise taxes, in the wake of the new levy, has been dramatically reduced

Most obviously, this complicates their Net Zero strategy; you would have expected fiscal policy increasingly to have rebalanced towards green taxes.

Andrew Griffith: If public services aren’t radically reformed, the new healthcare levy may be in vain

Delivering our popular and bold programme will require better instrumentation, clearer goals and new ways of working.

David Gauke: Johnson’s health and social care plan. A betrayal of Conservative principles? No – because, at one level, there aren’t any.

This can give the Tories a tremendous advantage in a democracy because the public, as a whole, does not have fixed views either.

Health and Social Care 3) Ryan Bourne: The battle for spending control and lower taxes appears to be lost

There is nothing for productivity growth, ageing, minimum wage hikes, tailoring care to individual needs, or councils’ incentives to build more homes.

Social care reform – and why we can’t simply tax our way to better public services

The cat of Tory tax rises has fewer than nine lives. Especially if these breach manifesto pledges and are generationally unfair.

Is Sunak winning over the Universal Credit uplift?

If the Treasury gets its way, the Chancellor will score a big victory. But Ministers should watch for Labour stealing their thunder over taper rates.