After the pandemic, the last thing we need is “business as usual”. A new start — to fund rather than repress the economy — needs a fundamental revision of the way the government raises its revenue.

Present taxes suit the owners of UK sites. After all, property remains the best performing investment. But what we’ve created is a skewed fiscal environment in which those renting receive no share in the unearned bonanza and the people suffer starved services, unsustainable private and state debt, suppressed enterprise, high rents, low wages and an abused environment.

There is a way to aid productivity that would sustainably fund the emergence from the crisis, and which offers all producers a fair share of productive capacity. But it’s not Sir