By Tony O’Riley-
Boris Johnson has promised to end the “criminal waste of talent” in parts of the UK by spreading opportunity more evenly.
It came as the government unveiled 30 planned new laws for the year ahead in the Queen’s Speech.
.Labour leader, Sir Keir seized criticised the absence of new legislation to fix the funding of adult social care – something he said the prime minister had promised on the steps of Downing Street two years ago.
He said the government’s failure to act on the issue after the pandemic was “nothing short of an insult” and it was “a similar story on skills and education”.
The government h promised to bring forward social care proposals later this year an d improve the general livelihood of the British people.
The prime minister told MPs: “We intend to unite and level up across the whole of our United Kingdom because we one nation Conservatives understand this crucial point – that you will find flair and imagination and enthusiasm and genius distributed evenly across this country while opportunity is not.
“And we need to change that because it is not just a moral and social disgrace, it is an economic mistake. It is a criminal waste of talent.
“And though we cannot for one moment minimise the damage that Covid has done – the loss of learning, the NHS backlogs, the courts delays, the massive fiscal consequences – we must use this opportunity to achieve a national recovery so that jabs, jabs jabs becomes jobs, jobs, jobs.”
He promised a Skills and Post-16 Education Bill for England, with loans for adults wanting to retrain and more powers to deal with failing colleges.
The prime minister additionally promised a bill aimed at deterring asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel A bill to ease planning controls and increase housebuilding in England. Plans to improve bus and train service connectivity in England.
His passionate speech was promising on an economic recovery , despite the huge losses and debt accumulated during the pandemic. However, the magic of financial support for many individuals and businesses during the lockdown can be seen as a testimony to their delivery in the hardest of times.
Many businesses were heavily supported financially during the pandemic, other big brands like Debenhams went out of business during the same periods. Rushi Sunak brilliance, backed ofcourse by a string of economics management brains behind the sit of politics.
Councils received a lot of money to help them, some of which was badly mismanaged by many councils. Many of those councils are already the subject of investigations, although some have escaped notice through their slippery antics and well guarded operations.
Boris Johnson should be believed for the sake of optimism, after multiple U turns throughout the pandemic. It turns out he was under intense pressure by his scientific advisers, but would have had to assessed the general risks posed by the coronavirus each time he authorised a national lockdown.
Brits will wait and see whether the prime minister will live up to his promises, but we already know the vows cannot be disregarded as fantasy. An adequate injection of money across the sectors of the UK that revives the economy would make him one of the most ambitious and successful leaders, even with all his other faults.