The Treasury should hold one as the year rolls on, along the lines of that undertaken by Canada’s government during the 1990s.
Modest consolidation over decades is one thing; large increases over a Parliament would be quite another.
The new zone proposals will take away the effective monopoly of the big developers, allowing a genuine market to deliver for people.
While it’s important to focus on the ‘R’ rate in tackling covid, we must also balance health concerns against two other Rs – recovery versus recession.
He has demonstrated prodigious powers of endurance, keeping going through storms of criticism which would have driven many a lesser figure out of politics.
The big picture is that Johnson is dashing for growth. We devoutly hope it works but the precedents aren’t promising.
If the Prime Minister doesn’t have confidence in his most senior Ministers, it’s impossible to see how anyone else can.
By using the new grant as an incentiv those who are looking to buy would be more likely to buy a new build, enabling supply to continue.
“I’m very, very positive about China, but I’m very, very negative about the Chinese Communist Party.”
If, that is, interest rates carry on at rock bottom rates. But we have to take a chance on growing our way out of this crisis.
As a member of his first Cabinet, I was tested in Northern Ireland – as elsewhere the new government reduced the defict and reformed public services.
His cuts were so shocking that, in his own Budget speech in June 2010, George Osborne said that there would be no further such reductions.
The Cabinet Office’s Review will ask complex questions about its purpose. But a straightforward one may be the place to start.