Brandon Lewis: In Northern Ireland, people are pulling together in amazing ways to combat the virus

I am redoubling my engagement with its business community, which needs to know that our committment to ensuring UK connectivity remains strong.

Henry Hill: Anger grows as devolution hinders coordinated response to the Covid-19 crisis

Also: Opposition parties force the SNP to abandon a bid to suspend trial by jury; and more good reading on the fallout from Alex Salmond’s acquittal.

Theresa Villiers: Some close to government would accept the total liberalisation of trade in agriculture. Here’s why they’re wrong.

We should make tariff reductions conditional on meeting standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection which are as good as our own.

Henry Hill: Sturgeon abandons bid for 2020 independence referendum due to epidemic

Also: schools and businesses shut down across the nation; DUP slammed in ‘cash-for-ash’ report; and Salmond’s trial continues.

Henry Hill: Davies pivots in a devosceptic direction as he ‘relaunches’ his leadership

Also: Gove warns the Electoral Commission not to ‘waste time’ on SNP demands; Scottish Nationalists showing the strain as problems mount; and more.

Budget 2) John Glen: The challenges we face of the virus and of weak productivity can’t be met by the repetition of small state mantras

The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.

Andrea Leadsom: The legacy that I’ve left my successor at the Business Department

Our priorities were: tackling global climate change, solving Grand Challenges and making the UK the best place in the world to work and to grow a business.

Henry Hill: Could the Welsh Conservatives go into coalition with Plaid next year?

Also: Carlaw and Johnson meet to discuss tweaks to the points-based immigration system; the SNP make trouble over the Irish Protocol; and more.

Sanjoy Sen: The Boris Bridge proposal deserves to be taken seriously

It may deliver better value than other mega-projects – more ‘levelling up’ across the UK and perhaps even help preserve the union itself.

Henry Hill: Carlaw kicks off comprehensive policy review to take the fight to the SNP

Also: Plaid fined almost £30,000 for misreporting donations worth half a million pounds; Labour hopefuls sing from devolution’s tattered hymnal; and more.

Huw Davies: As ‘One Nation’ Conservatives, we must resist the folly of federalism

Its proponents are making the same arguments as the advocates of devolution in the 1990s. And we know what happened there.

Henry Hill: Johnson’s attacks on the SNP’s record are a welcome shift in strategy

It is past time that Westminster overcame its queasiness about pressing the devolved administrations on their dire performance.

Matt Smith: After two wasted decades, it is for the Conservatives to deliver the “devolution dividend” to Wales

The 2021 Senedd elections are an historic opportunity. Our mission is to devolve as much power as possible to communities – from Cardiff Bay as well as Westminster.

Matthew Evans: The large public sector in Newport has helped Labour to cling on

Council Tax is being put up by eight per cent. Yet public lavatories are being closed.

Adrian Mason: Why should non-Labour North Wales be the prisoner of the socialist monopoly in South Wales?

What has been the Conservative Party ‘s response at Westminster to this situation? Incredibly, it has been to offer Wales even more devolution.