“This government not only has the vision to change this country for the better, but we have the mission of uniting and leveling up: the mission in which we were elected last year,” he will say, according to comments published in the media. .
Johnson will advance £ 5 billion for hospital maintenance plans, as well as road and rail construction, school remodeling, prison improvements and improvements to parks and main streets.
He will direct the former President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, who implemented a “New Deal” of public works to help the United States overcome the depression of the 1930s.
Rooseveltian sounds positive; sounds like a New Deal, “Johnson will say.” All I can say is that if so, then this is how it should sound and be, because that is what the times demand. “
He will promise to “build our way back to health,” pledging to “rebuild better, rebuild greener, rebuild faster, and do it at the pace this moment requires.”
The government will publish a National Infrastructure Strategy in the fall to clarify its plans, while Chancellor Rishi Sunak will present an update on the economy next week.
The tone has to do with renewal. But all the promises were there in 2019, when Johnson promised an “infrastructure revolution,” which included massive rail projects, road improvements, and broadband stretching across the country. He will use the same phrase on Tuesday.
Britain did not do well during the crisis. It has one of the highest death rates in the world and was plagued with problems: testing, the provision of personal protective equipment and the protection of vulnerable care homes, to name a few.
With the daily death rate in the mid-1920s and new positive cases of less than 1,000, the government appears to be facing the crisis. The British may even return to pubs this week as a normal appearance of life resumes.
But there is no respite for officials, who point out that as the coronavirus chaos subsides, the “reset” agenda designed to mitigate the economic impact has taken its place.
Public officials are not just preparing for new policies: Downing Street wants to change the wiring of government operations, starting with the change of personnel. No. 10 announced Sunday night that Mark Sedwill, the UK’s top official, will step down in September.
It follows weeks of anonymous reports to the newspapers against him, including charges that he was to blame for some of the problems the government faced in dealing with the virus.
Sedwill is the third most important official to resign since Johnson took office. The head of the Office of Foreign Affairs, Simon McDonald, announced that he would retire after the government decided to merge his department with the development office.
And the head of the Interior Ministry, Philip Rutnam, resigned over clashes with the Interior Minister, Priti Patel. You have filed a case of unfair dismissal.
All three were said to dislike Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s infamous aide-in-chief in Downing Street, who is said to have put together a “shit list” of top officials he wanted them to leave.
Johnson appointed David Frost, his Brexit negotiator, to replace Sedwill in his supporting role as National Security Advisor, making a clearly political appointment for civil service.
But those who have followed Cummings closely since he rose to fame by running the 2016 Vote Leave campaign will know that Whitehall’s radical reform was in his own manifesto – the blog where he voiced his thoughts on governance for years.
He said Whitehall considers failure “normal, not something to avoid,” and proposed “amputating” parts of it, including “firing thousands of unnecessary people.”
The coronavirus may have delayed the inevitable, but Johnson and his senior adviser appear determined to deliver the original plan.
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