Help hard-working people and go for more growth. The economic policy and message that Johnson needs.

The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.

David Gauke: It’s right that the civil service become more efficient, but I doubt that these plans to reform it will work

The Government’s approach is unlikely to bring out the best from those upon whom it depends to get things done.

Gerard Lyons: Ministers have an opportunity to cut taxes, drive supply side reform – and help reduce the cost of living

The shock-absorber is a looser fiscal policy. Although the budget deficit is higher than one would like, the good news is that it is falling sharply.

Are windfall taxes unconservative? Thatcher and Howe didn’t think so.

But bearing the stamp of approval from the Iron Lady and her first Chancellor does not stop them from being a fundamentally bad idea.

Ryan Shorthouse and Sam Robinson: Tax reforms, not just tax cuts, are what the Government needs to deliver

As Bright Blue’s new report outlines, we can use tax as a tool to help reach a wide set of economic, social, and environmental goals.

James Frayne: The Chancellor’s wealth doesn’t matter for working-class voters. His tax rises do.

They are not against rich politicians, as long as any success is earned fairly. The Chancellor’s greater vulnerability is the cost-of-living crisis.

David Gauke: Sunak – the Anywhere Chancellor in a Somewhere Government

In addition to the broad question about the Chancellor’s political judgement, I think he faces three specific problems.

Gerard Lyons: Sunak should raise the lower tax threshold this autumn to put more money in people’s pockets.

His Spring Statement was a missed opportunity despite some welcome measures – and further measures may be unveiled during the months ahead.

How Sunak didn’t rise to the occasion at a time of national crisis

My instinct last week was that he tried too hard to please the Tory press. Nothing’s that’s happened since has suggested otherwise.

David Willetts: The cost of living crisis. We need greater mobility to get higher growth, and higher growth to fund higher wages.

A key economic problem during the 1980s was union power. Now it is weak incentives to move and retrain.

David Gauke: Last week, Sunak aimed to please the Conservative core vote. And a lot of good it did him.

The criticism of him in the newspaper most read by Party activists took little account of the effects of war and pandemic on the choices he must make.

Rees-Mogg must deliver tomorrow, just as Sunak should today. To do so, he needs Johnson to back him up.

At a time of pressure on public spending, delivering efficiency savings is especially important.

Gerard Lyons: Sunak’s task tomorrow. The best way of reducing the deficit is to go for growth.

The Chancellor should not feel constrained by the OBR’s forecasts into limiting the actions he can take.

Sunak’s Budget which isn’t a Budget but will be a Budget – for a cost of living crisis unprecedented in recent times

Pandemic and war, like two horsemen of the Apocalypse, leave the Chancellor scrabbling for a response.

Tom Clougherty: The Chancellor can help households next week by raising tax thresholds and rebooting energy policy

The second in a series of articles on how the Chancellor should approach the upcoming Spring Statement.