Boris’s Britain
Our doubts are the cost — and how much can be delivered.
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Boris Johnson’s post-Covid programme will chime with millionsCredit: Reuters
Despite our gargantuan pandemic bill, billions more will be spent revolutionising the train and bus network to match London’s.
That is a vital step in the regional “levelling-up” agenda.
So are the Lifetime Skills Guarantee — ensuring funding for job training at any age — the new freeports and the bonfire of planning rules to get affordable homes built much more quickly.
We applaud the ban on illegal migrants settling here, the fines for universities “no platforming” non-woke speakers and the threatened shutdowns for social media sites spreading child abuse or terrorism content.