Stamp duty?
Will help those who “buy to let” as much it helps private buyers. It helps business more than the first time buyer at the cheaper end, who dont pay it anyway. It may even further inflate prices, as purchasers have more to spend on the house rather than tax. It certainly wont tackle the lamentable shortage of housing in the UK.
It may look good to Tory voters who think inflation is bad, but house inflation is good.
Fracking?
The science hasnt found any new evidence to suggest it is safer now than it was a couple of years ago, when [u]this governments manifesto[/u] said it wouldnt allow it. It wont come on stream for years.
It won`t alter the price of oil or gas significantly.
It will allow continued dependence on a dirty fuel source, when we have been doing fairly well in getting new technologies up and running.
The UK does have bad productivity figures. Truss is correct.
But she is wrong saying it is because of lazy workers. Investment in plant and technology increases productivity.
The UK has poor investment figures. A stable future is needed for investment Not a half arsed series of targets, with no clue at all of how to achieve them.