Stephen Purvis: Squeezing investors to fund the NHS would backfire on the Treasury

Targeted tax breaks on investment create jobs and pay dividends for the public purse. The long-term interests of our public services are not served by cutting them.

Iain Dale: What was hung around May’s neck in this week’s 1922 meeting was… a garland

Plus: Chinese whispers, Whitehall moves – and a Budget that is set to target business rather than taxpayers.

Catherine Utley: Let’s end the civil partnership ban on these devoted, long-term, cohabiting people

Siblings who have lived together for many years should be entitled to the same rights and protections.

Robert Halfon: Here’s the Worker’s Budget we need next week

In the second article of our mini-series, the Harlow MP calls for a relentless focus on the cost of living, a skills-based economy, social injustices and affordable housing.

Andy Street: A message to the Chancellor. Tax Amazon more and small businesses less.

Nevertheless, tax alone won’t solve our challenge. Instead we must reshape the high street experience – as we’re starting to do in the West Midlands.

Andrew Lilico: Next week, Hammond must present a Budget for Brexit

In the first article of a new mini-series, the economist urges the Chancellor to deploy the savings and revenues secured by leaving the EU.

John Penrose: Rebooting Capitalism 3) Purge the system of kleptocrats, dirty money and fake news

In the second of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP argues for drastic action to rebuild legitimacy in the eyes of the people.

Chloe Westley: In praise of the small business people I met, who help create the wealth which keeps public services going

During this Budget run-up, many of those I met raised business rates as a killer, plus council tax, the apprenticeship levy, parking charges and corporation tax, too.

Graham Brady: Air Passenger Duty remains a tax on trade, so let it be cut in the Budget

It will also boost our economy and allow businesses to create new, modern jobs in an exciting growth sector.

Robert Halfon: No to Ted Clubberlang Conservatism, no to Deliveroo Conservatism, yes to Workers’ Conservatism

That’s you told, Johnson and Truss. Plus: a Universal Credit Brexit Dividend for working families.

The “end of austerity” must not mean a return to the bad old days of Brownite mismanagement

“Austerity” has been blurred and misused as a term. If everyone takes its end as a promise of whatever they fancy, it will soon get costly and risky.

WATCH: “If I have a function here today, it is to try – with all humility – to put some lead into the collective pencil” – Johnson

Boris Johnson speaks to the ConHome fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

Chloe Westley: Now we must seize the opportunities that Brexit offers

If I were May, I’d be listening to activists at fringe events instead of beating to Whitehall’s hesitant drum.

Nick Hargrave: Rapturously received – and strategically flawed. How May’s first Tory conference speeches have come back to haunt her.

She unwittingly legitimised unrealistic Brexit expectations and Corbyn’s economic argument.

Robert Halfon: Please, please free me from Brexit Groundhog Day Brexit Groundhog Day Brexit Groundhog Day…

Plus: The train of communism stalls but the train of conservatism stutters. And: Tackling Burning Injustices does not mean taxing milkshakes.