Today, housing. Soon: childcare, energy and transport. Boris Johnson has a plan and he wants people to know about it – most of all those Tory MPs who sat in judgement on him in recent days.
So during his speech in Blackpool the PM had an important argument to make.
There are huge economic headwinds confronting Britain, he said, because of the war in Ukraine and Britain’s failure to invest in the energy generation sector.
But splashing more public cash isn’t the answer, he argued, because the country can’t afford it and there is a growing risk that the cost of paying the interest on our debts – already over £70bn a year – spirals out of control. How Lawsonian.
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