Alistair Lexden: Neville Chamberlain – the unappreciated merits

The work done in partnership with Baldwin, and by Chamberlain alone after 1937, gave Britain some of the best welfare services in the world.

Robert Colvile: Our drive at the Centre for Policy Studies for new ideas for ownership

Our New Generation programme will be tasked with producing policies in areas that are of pressing concern to voters: tax, enterprise, housing, welfare.

Whatever happened to the Big Society? 2) Jesse Norman: What it is – and why it matters

We need to renew that belief, that self-belief, and that optimism – about people, about society, about freedom and about human life – more than ever.

Alan Ward: Private landlords and their tenants need reforms to Universal Credit

With sensible changes to things like direct payments and access to information, the new system can work better for everybody.

Ideas for the Budget 5) James Kirkup: Ditch the surplus target. Build new towns. Raise inheritance taxes and boost universal credit.

The Social Market Foundation isn’t tied to any party. We’re centrists – our advice and ideas on offer to anyone who wants to put common sense ahead of ideology.

Ideas for the Budget 4) Nick Denys: Give workers greater control, in order to make us all richer

The Chancellor should also support life-long learning through training vouchers, and offer tax breaks for politically independent trade unions.

Universal Credit – a welcome but limited improvement

It’s good that the absurd telephone charges have been scrapped – but the bigger problem remains unresolved.

The rebels are right – Universal Credit is a good reform, endangered by a poor decision on its implementation

Ministers would do well to listen to their colleagues who want to improve – not destroy – this laudable change to the welfare system.

WATCH: May at PMQs – “For too many people under Labour, they were better off on benefits”

“What we want is Universal Credit which is simpler, more straightforward, and which makes sure that work always pays.”

Edward Boyd: There must be no delay in rolling out universal credit

It needs investment, but is a vast improvement on the system it replaces. The MPs who want a delay are misguided.

Alex Burghart: Why Universal Credit is needed. How it helps people find work. And what must be done to make it even better.

It’s important that the Government does more to publicise the fact that people can apply for an advance on their benefits with a repayment period of six months.

Heidi Allen: Ministers must make a priority of closing the disability employment gap

This Government must be about more than Brexit, and there are a range of practical steps we can and should take straight away.

James Frayne: Five bits of advice that May’s new Communications Director should give her

“We’re badly trailing in the polls. Corbyn’s up and you’re down. You hired me to get things done and tell you how I see it. Here goes.”

Peter Aldous: The Government must commit to halving the disability employment gap

Half of all food bank users are disabled, and we know that appropriate, secure, properly-paid work is the best route out of poverty.

Nick Denys: We must persuade voters that the Tories are the real workers’ party

If the electorate still credit Labour with being the party that cares, it will always have a short path back to power.