Alexander Stafford: PPE – and how our throwaway culture is endangering our national security

The production of reusable PPE in such places as Rother Valley would tie in with the North’s vital role in the UK’s green recovery.

James Blagden: How to level up – and get growth going across the whole of the country

We can’t continue to favour projects such as Crossrail over developing infrastructure in other parts of the country which generate much greater relative returns.

John Fareham: The Humberside mindset must go

It was a failed county. An abomination of the 1972 Local Government Act. Yet bureaucrats keep trying to revive it by stealth.

Neil O’Brien: So you want to level up. In what way? And how will you do it?

Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.

Carol Matthews: We need fairer investment and supply to level up housing in the North

In the second piece in our mini-series, the Chair of Homes for the North argues that driving public investment in housing towards the South East is not sustainable.

Rachel Wolf: Where education reform has succeeded – and where it has failed

The parents we have most consistently let down are those we have not empowered to demand more for their children. That must change.

Sunder Katwala: The Conservatives, ethnic minority voters, and the election. Next to no progress.

Not being white remains the number one demographic predictor of not voting Tory.

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.

Jason Aldiss: Conservatives can only win from the centre ground. Which means Hunt as leader – not a lurch to the right under Johnson.

If Brexit really must happen, then better to be frank about the impossibility of renegotiating the deal, or exiting without one.

The local elections revisited: an analysis of results in Yorkshire and the Humber

The straight-talking people of Yorkshire would seem to be impatient with the delays and obfuscations over Brexit.

Rupert Barnes: Let’s do more to celebrate our historic counties

Remember where we are; remember what has come down to us. Our unique heritage is there to be opened up.

Will Tanner: The Budget choice on ending austerity. Raise taxes – or ease up on deficit reduction.

In the final article of our mini-series, the Onward Director says that there must also be a new strategy to help boost Britain’s productivity rate.

Robert Goodwill: The Commons Bill this week which prepares the way for a Green Brexit

Last week, I sowed wild bird seed mixtures so that, in the spring, some of our fields will be ablaze with nectar plants and buzzing with insects once more.

James Frayne: To contest big state ideas, small state conservatives need to get to grips with the detail

They must also rediscover the interests of the consumer – and be better at engaging working class voters on social issues.

The Conservatives are contesting all but 13 of the 4,413 local election races – more than Labour

Full slates of Tory candidates have been achieved in the East Midlands, West Midlands, North East, South West and London (the first time in the capital since 1986).