Andrew Laird: An early item for the new Chancellor’s inbox. Community Asset Funds.

The manifesto committed to encouraging local takeovers of civic organisations or community assets under threat – such as local football clubs, pubs or post offices.”

National Insurance. A Cummings tax policy begins to take shape.

Put the commitment to an NI cut alongside the shelving of a corporation tax one, and one finds one of the Downing Street adviser’s main preoccupations.

Whatever happened to the Big Society? 3) Peter Franklin: The values of the all-consuming state or market both deaden the human spirit

Even in an age of austerity, government has plenty of power and assets, which it could on a small-scale, experimental basis transfer to the control of community groups.

Christopher Howarth’s Guide to Brexit: The manifesto must convince Leavers – and lock in our escape from the EU

Pro-EU Lords will not be able to block Brexit measures that are set out in May’s programme for Government.

Iain Dale: Fox was right. Most European countries need to bury their twentieth century history.

Plus: Hammond’s blunder. Peers’ folly. Stephen Hawking is not, repeat not, controlled by MI5. And: my inner Mary Whitehouse meets Katie Hopkins’ slack vagina.

The real challenge isn’t sorting business rates. It’s ending that stubborn structural deficit.

The harsh truth is that, nearly seven years into Conservative-led Government, we are still living beyond our means.

The Budget. Osborne should dare to be dull.

The Chancellor should resist the temptation to ease the path to June’s referendum and further his leadership ambitions.