Dolly Theis: Why Government policy on obesity affects us all

The final part of a mini-series of three articles on obesity policy for ConservativeHome this week.

Iain Dale: The number of people who tell me that they would ignore the rules of any new national lockdown is troubling

Plus: Macron has closed Paris at night. Merkel is pondering tougher restrictions. So don’t blame Johnson as though our situation were unique.

Ben Roback: Whoever won yesterday’s travesty of a presidential debate in America, it certainly wasn’t the voters

This election seems destined for the courts – so we could be looking well into 2021 before we get a definitive result.

Polling snapshot: Starmer’s personal ratings aren’t translating into a Labour poll lead

For all the Government’s devaluing reputation for competence, the party hasn’t yet shaken off the Corbyn era legacy.

Iain Dale: How many Cabinet members would make your fantasy Cabinet? I count five. And it gets worse…

Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.

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.

Feel for the students and pupils who must cope with this chaos as best they can

It is now open season on the Education Secretary, as it will continue to be until he resigns, is moved – or is sacked.

James Frayne: Public support for the Government appears to have dropped – but not when it comes to individual policies

People strongly back it banning separate households meeting indoors where infection rates have risen, among other moves.

Radical: An open letter to Liz Truss. We urge you to see through your commitment to protect single sex spaces.

Making GRCs making GRCs available on demand would destabilise all manner of legal structures, from equal pay to sex discrimination law to criminal law. 

Crispin Blunt and Sue Pascoe: It’s time to correct the stoking of alarm and spreading of misinformation about trans people

As a Party, we should hold out a helping hand to all those who still face the difficulties of daily life – who still cannot be their authentic selves.

Luke Evans: Snapshot from Bosworth. We haven’t beaten the Coronavirus. But nor are we letting it beat us.

The vast majority of those who follow the rules have enabled those of us outside Leicester to avoid a second lockdown so far.

Wanted: an international solution to the plight of the Hong Kongers

Three million of them are unlikely to pitch up here, but government must plan for all eventualities – and support for its plan wouldn’t survive a mass influx.

Phillipa Stroud: Coronavirus has hit those in poverty hardest. The Government must support employment, fast.

The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.

Polling snapshot. Coming out of lockdown, Starmer’s election and disillusion with the Government are returning us to politics as normal.

There is no evidence from the poll of polls that the Dominic Cummings affair speeded up what has been a steady Tory decline since mid-April.

Cummings 1) At a stroke, the row has weakened the authority of the lockdown

If so much, as Ministers suggest, depends on common sense, nuance, context and common sense, people will draw the inevitable conclusion.