Boris Johnson will tomorrow set out plans for an infrastructure spending blitz to help get the country through the economic fall-out of the coronavirus crisis.
In a major speech in the West Midlands, he will announce £5bn will go on doing up crumbling hospitals, schools and prisons as well as building new transport links and town centres.
The Prime Minister will liken the effort to Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal in the wake of the Great Depression in the US in the 1930s. “It sounds positively Rooseveltian.
It sounds like a New Deal. All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand,” he will say.
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