The Conservatives must press on with giving housing association tenants the right to buy

A right to shared ownership would also be welcome. Boldness is needed to prevent a Corbyn Government.

Miles Holder: What the Conservatives should do next to help support people with autism

Recommendations in a report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism are well worth Ministers and others taking up.

Maria Miller: British expats deserve a lifelong right to vote – scrapping the 15-year limit is long overdue

A century on from the granting of Votes for Women we should honour our manifesto pledge to deliver Votes for Life. A new Private Member’s Bill offers the opportunity.

Alex Morton: Will this election deliver the Joe Chamberlain-style conservatism that May really wants?

In her belief in “the good that government can do”, she is quite unique in terms of UK political post-war history.

The hunt is up for more Conservative manifesto U-turns

To date, May has been able to junk, water down or delay Cameron’s agenda with little blowback. The Budget NICs furore may change all that.

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.

End the calls for radical tax cuts or a social justice crusade. Hammond is hemmed in.

And May’s reputation for straightforwardness risks damage from the Budget’s proposals for NICs.

Profile: Ben Gummer – the most important Minister whose role you’ve never heard of

Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.

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.

Green takes charge of the Government’s plans for Life Chances

This is the right Minister in the right department. And though his room for manoeuvre is limited, he has a chance to make an impact on families policy.

James Cartlidge: The triple lock. The NHS. The aid budget. If there’s to be a snap election, we’ll need a new manifesto

And on Brexit, as one who campaigned for In, I say we should get on with it, and avoid the one outcome that is infinitely less preferable to Leave or Remain: limbo.

Fresh Start: Rewards of Leave 4) Better immigration control

The fourth in a series of policy briefings.

His Sunday trading scheme shows how the worst of Osborne is harming the best of Osborne

The consequences of these sleights-of-hand now include two Ministers threatening to resign, PPS’s quitting, and rebellion from up to 50 Tory MPs.

WATCH: Fox – We can keep our immigration pledge. Or we can remain in the EU. But not both. We must choose.

As the Association AGM season looms, the former Defence Secretary issues a reminder of a key manifesto commitment from last May.

Raab kicks prisoner votes towards the long grass

Though the news makes it even less likely that Britain will quit the ECHR – not that such a move is on the cards anyway.