Andrew Smith: The next Conservative Government can deliver for the North by investing in regeneration.

I hope that we will see more of the Chancellor during the campaign explaining how his plans can help support investment to boost productivity.

Selaine Saxby: In North Devon, there is great concern about traffic congestion on local roads

Local hotels, restaurants, and tourist attractions would all benefit from a cut in VAT. This is something that we can seriously look at once we have left the EU.

Large towns are offering a route to Conservative revival. How can we return the favour?

Gimmicks and bribes are not the answer. Prosperity will be achieved if free entreprise is allowed to thrive.

David Simmonds: I’m a supporter of railways, but HS2 is a misguided scheme

The current expensive disruptive route, and the neglect of decrepit local transport, are unacceptable.

Gary Sambrook: Six years as a councillor gives me an advantage in standing for Parliament

In Birmingham, the Labour council is adamant about introducing its hated Congestion Charge; which will hit the poorest the hardest.

Nat Wei: The key to seeing off Corbynism is the mass ownership of assets

Our survival as a party and arguably that of our nation itself depends on people having a stake in this country.

Judy Terry: How councils can do more to attract inward investment

Regulations should be applied lightly and Business Rates cut. Improving transport links must be championed.

Parvez Akhtar: The Conservatives will need to campaign hard to retain the Mayoralty of the West Midlands

The region is still strong Labour territory. We must ensure that Andy Street is at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

Melanie Hampton: It’s the small things that provide satisfaction in being a councillor

You may smile; how can this woman take such pride in providing a bin at a bus stop? Well, she does.

The Lewis Carroll Queen’s Speech

The place to put these proposals to the test is at a general election, not in a Parliament apparently determined to do little other than delay Brexit.

Allrik Birch: We need private firms to re-build our rail network

The era of government-run railway infrastructure has been, for the most part, one of decline and a clear lack of ambition.

Ben Houchen: The Conservatives are the party of towns

The image of large swathes of the north, as a post-industrial wasteland, filled with abandoned Victorian terraces, isn’t just wrong and offensive. It’s actively dangerous.

Grant Shapps: Thomas Cook’s collapse – and how we successfully carried out the biggest-ever repatriation operation in peacetime.

We brought home 150,000 passengers, on 746 different flights to ten airports around the country. And 94 pc flew back on their scheduled departure date.

Sponsored post: Quicker, quieter, cleaner – airspace modernisation will transform our skies

If it doesn’t happen, delays faced by passengers are likely to soar, with one in three flights being delayed by half an hour or more.

Neil O’Brien: How to rebalance Britain’s unbalanced economy – by levelling up, not levelling down

Ever since the EU referendum, there’s been renewed focus on how to help poorer places. Helpfully there is decades of evidence about what does and doesn’t work.