"The Government's staged plan to reopen the economy as the number of infections continues to fall has provided a boost to the country both socially and economically. The vaccination programme has become self-fulfilling, with the infrastructure that has been set-up working very efficiently.

Next week the Chancellor will present his Budget to Parliament and that is when the realities of the damage done to the economy by the three lockdowns it has taken to bring the virus under control, will be laid bare.

Rishi Sunak is being pressured by business leaders, trade unions and the Opposition to continue several of the support measures that he has put in place.

It seems likely that the stamp duty holiday for property purchases will remain in place. In fact, there are even calls for it to be abolished entirely, since it appears to be an old-fashioned and outmoded form of taxation. Since it raised close to £12 billion in 2019/20 that is unlikely to happen since Sunak is trying to repair the country’s finances not, add to his problems"

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