We have a scheme to help our tenants with deposits, to boost home ownership.
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.
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.
One way would be through a time-limited Department of Virus Legacy, much as DExEU did for Brexit, able to ensure that opportunities are grasped.
Ministers can carry on trying, through the British Business Bank or directly, to push on this Gordian Knot – or slice through it.
John Major’s efforts in the Nineties, part-reversed by Blair, seem almost designed to give the market a bad name. There is an alternative.
Whether moderate right Conservative, or moderate left, austerity is dead, and this new age will be with us for a long time to come.
The fact that Darlington station was explicitly addressed in his statement is a great sign of how swiftly the Chancellor has mastered the detail of his brief.
It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.
The Chancellor’s measures leave us well prepared to tackle its short-term challenges as well as helping to shape the long-term trajectory of the economy.
Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.
For the Conservatives to fulfil their promise of “levelling up” the UK, they must create ample employment opportunities.
For the good of passengers, taxpayers and the railway, this pre-internet system needs a wholesale reset.
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.
This is 25 times the number of skilled work permits issued each year to non-EU citizens and their dependants.