Steve Baker: Ministers should reject a second lockdown and prepare for Plan B

Government needs to reform the stucture of expert advice, and publish serious analysis of the cost of the options they face.

Nicky Morgan: Ministers must act swiftly to avoid a disaster – bailiffs abusing vulnerable people over council tax arrears

Aggressive and intimidating enforcement plagued our system long before Covid: now is not the time to cross our fingers and hope that this might change.

Full membership list of select committees

The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.

Nicky Morgan: This contest must be about much more than Brexit

Any candidate who focuses solely on leaving the EU will hit a brick wall with the Parliamentary Party.

Charlie Elphicke: It’s time to check the use of taxpayers’ money before it’s spent – not afterwards

We need a powerful Parliamentary spending watchdog, a Budget Committee, to stop hard-earned public cash being wasted.

Nicky Morgan: Let Hammond and the Treasury lead our Conservative programme for national renewal

Levels of trust between Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street may be low, but the latter holds the key to helping create an economy and society that works for everyone.

Kevin Hollinrake: Why is the regulator protecting RBS – instigator of the greatest banking scandal in Britain’s history?

Ultimately, the only way properly to determine the extent of both this and wider problems is through a full public inquiry.

Nicky Morgan: Women on boards. We need fair access – not positive discrimination. And no more evasive excuses.

“Not enough senior women”…” “Not enough interested women”… “All the good ones have been snapped up”… “We already have one”… “No vacancies”…

Victoria Hewson: How we should prepare to leave the Customs Union

These steps will improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the UK’s international trade, whatever the outcome of the Article 50 negotiations.

Bernard Jenkin: Why the Government’s customs partnership proposal won’t work

Those continuing the Remain campaign represent a minority. The Prime Minister understands that the people have spoken, and that now there is no turning back.

Nicky Morgan: Conservatives helped to deliver votes for women. Now we should provide votes at 16.

By accepting that 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland could vote on their future during the Scottish referendum, we undermined the case for not extending the franchise further.

Patel and Seely win Foreign Affairs committee places. Simon Clarke is elected to the Treasury committee.

The results of yesterday’s Select Committee elections weren’t at all bad for the Brexiteers – or Conservative Friends of Israel, for that matter.

Conservative Select Committee election results. A squeeze on places, “Very high turnout” – and some prominent losers.

Ability, popularity with colleagues and specialist knowledge seem to have mattered more in these elections than intake or ideology.

Nicky Morgan: Ministers and whips may welcome this delay. But as the new Chair of the Treasury Select Commitee, I don’t.

The process of choosing members is taking a long time. Some will wonder how departments can continue without full scrutiny for almost four months.

Iain Dale: The biggest gossip in politics is interviewed by the biggest gossip in politics and names the biggest gossip in politics

Plus: The decline of books. Morgan sees off the cult of Mogg. Why I won’t fly RyanAir. And: As I reach a significant birthday, I mull writing my autobiography…