There’s a case for an ‘Amazon tax’, but it isn’t saving the high street

The online retail revolution has brought more convenience and lower prices to millions. Fighting it is an unworthy mission for a pro-consumer party.

Andrew Mitchell: It’s time to stop crooks, kleptocrats, dictators and warlords from exploiting our overseas territories

We need to see where it is, root it out and thus show the leadership that has made Britain respected around the world.

Chris Whitehouse: The BBC needs to welcome and respond to scrutiny

Its reputation and market share has taken a buffeting recently, but its position is recoverable.

Holyrood’s tax powers should be a boon to Labour and the Tories

Both of the national parties are built around different attitudes to economic policy, and the Scottish Parliament’s new responsibilities will force tough choices on the SNP.

Nick Herbert: The question isn’t whether aid works. It does. The question is how it can work better.

The challenge for aid donors and recipients alike is to work together to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.

Diego Zuluaga: The Paradise Papers. The rich are paying more tax than ever – and tax havens are a force for good

For the most part, capital in offshore centres is invested, fetching rates of return far in excess of the value that most government expenditure can generate.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: like Boycott, May knows how to blunt an attack

Such frivolous considerations as entertaining the spectators play no part in the Prime Minister’s defensive technique.

Abbott’s Arithmetic 1) Labour’s tax avoidance figures are built on fiction

The Opposition plan to raise £6.5 billion, a figure reached by splitting the difference between numbers the IFS says were ‘made up’.

Charlie Elphicke: The taxman must get tougher on the super-rich

Income tax taking from the highest net-worth individuals are down £1 billion, even as everybody else has put more into the pot.

David Boyle: What will Theresanomics look like?

There has been huge investment in physical capital. But meanwhile, the effort to revitalise our human capital has been fragmented, centralised and half-hearted.

“Change has got to come.” May’s Conference speech: full text

“We believe in the good that government can do.”

James Hannam: The Panama Papers aftermath. It’s time to abolish the withholding tax.

In this new era of transparency, the Government should now start to dismantle the tax barriers that distort international commerce.

Nadhim Zahawi: Capitalism is under attack. We must defend it before it’s too late.

The arguments need to be made again, not for the benefit of rich people but for the benefit of everyone in the UK and around the world.

Lord Ashcroft: The Panama row won’t have changed people’s minds about Cameron

Yet it would not quite be true to say that nothing has changed. The precedent that has now been set on publishing tax returns could do more harm than good.

WATCH: Cameron argues for limits on publishing MPs’ taxes

He claims there is a “strong case” for the Prime Minister, Chancellor, and their Shadows to publish their returns, but not other Parliamentarians.