Ryan Bourne: Sunak shouldn’t try today to restore pre-virus Britain. It’s gone – and we must now adapt.

What normalisation should mean is the return to a functioning market economy where our wants and needs are met in today’s circumstances.

Howard Flight: High streets, air travel, restaurants, the arts. How the virus is transforming our lifestyle.

It should be remembered that the arts contributes more to Britain’s international earnings, in the aggregate, than does the City of London.

Wanted: an international solution to the plight of the Hong Kongers

Three million of them are unlikely to pitch up here, but government must plan for all eventualities – and support for its plan wouldn’t survive a mass influx.

Richard Holden: Here in Durham, Labour ponder tinkering with statues – while local people yearn for jobs, security and pay

We need to switch from specifying “what’s allowed to open” to “what in the interest of public health needs to continue to be restricted.”

Darren Grimes: Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?

In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.

Andy Street: With more shops opening again, here are high street lessons we can learn from the last recession

At John Lewis where I was a new MD, we decided to put our trust in technology – to build a business model for the future.

Neil O’Brien: Like fax machines, pagers and your old macarena CD, it’s time to bin the 1990s

The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.

Bailey must stand

Socialist hegemony in our capital can only be challenged if Conservatives are unapologetic in fighting the battle of ideas.

Adrian Mason: Set Deeside free from Cardiff

A new economic zone should have its own planning and development policies – with the potential to become a manufacturing powerhouse.

Eamonn Butler: More state provision won’t fix social care. It needs partnerships with independent providers.

Investors should create new homes – in an economies-of-scale dozen at a time, and lease a whole care package to local authorities.

Tony Lodge: Britain’s creaking, outdated energy system has been exposed by this crisis. It’s time for a greener future.

While the pandemic has been challenging for the National Grid, it also presents the perfect opportunity for change.

Nicholas Rogers: The Mayor is failing the commuters of South West London

There are long-running problems with the Piccadilly Line. The antiquated signalling system desperately needs updating.

Anna Firth: After the crisis, what can councils do to reset the environmental dial?

We need to install more electric vehicle charging points, plant kelp farms, and offer Council Tax discounts for environmentally-friendly gardening.

WATCH: Cummings 3) Shapps would rather talk about “things that matter to people’s everyday lives” – like his £1 billion plan for the A66

“It will cover all the way from Penrith to Scotch Corner…I had hoped to get a bit of time to talk about things I’m an expert in.”

Shaun Bailey: Bad management made the bailout of Transport for London necessary

But after the waste, mismanagement, and broken promises of the Mayor, it is right that tough conditions are attached,