Henry Hill: The new Welsh Secretary faces a delicate challenge

Also: Stormont flirts with disaster over budget deadlock; ‘Help to Buy’ sees Scotland run out of bricks; and BBC staff plan Commonwealth Games strike.

George Freeman MP: Four years on, where are the economic doommongers of 2010?

The Chancellor’s critics have been proved wrong.

Profile: Simon Danczuk, the tough Rochdale MP unafraid to ask the difficult questions on child sex abuse

If Labour had more MPs as bold as he is, the Tories would find themselves in a very much weaker position.

Lord Flight: The five economic problems that Osborne must tackle

The deficit. A feeble savings rate. Low productivity. Public sector pay that’s too high compared to private sector pay. The high middle class tax bill.

We need far less talk about tax cuts and far more about spending cuts

We have a deficit of over £100 billion. We have record household debt. We need an Affordability Commission.

Tom Wardle: Let’s help with the cost of moving to help people into jobs

We need to support people to fulfil their ambition of getting off benefits and relocating for work.

Priti Patel MP: The transformation of the system – from welfare to work

Iain Duncan Smith is helping to turn lives round and Labour has nothing to offer.

Labour’s delay of Universal Credit would cost the taxpayer money

Labour’s main criticism seems to be that the scheme is running behind schedule – their answer is a further three month delay

Further fall in rent arrears confounds critics of the spare room subsidy cut

Claims that rent arrears are increasing as a result of housing benefit reforms are needless scaremongering.

Priti Patel MP: Oxfam has allowed itself to become a mouthpiece for the Left

If some charities were acting in a way that was genuinely balanced, they would have been more vocal in criticising the last Labour Government.

Cllr Warren Bennett: Welfare Reform is working in South Ribble

A life on benefit should be for those in need – not a lifestyle choice.

Labour councils boycott welfare to work schemes

What are these councils seeking to achieve by their obstructionism?

Priti Patel MP: Europe isn’t working. The time to reform, repatriate and renegotiate is now.

After last week’s results, the public will expect all UK MEPs to get behind the Prime Minister’s plan.

Charlotte Leslie: Why government needs to be more like foodbanks

Instead of the intimidating monolith of a government department, the foodbank offers a live human being to help diagnose and then navigate anothers’ problem.

John Glen MP: It’s time to take party politics out of the food bank debate

Too often, the discussion has drifted towards two polarised political arguments, and a discussion about other factors is squeezed out as a result.