Peter Reynolds

The budget is strategically brilliant.  It makes reforms that are essential.

I think some people are going to suffer and I am particularly concerned about disabled people and students but I like this radicalism.  It takes us in the right direction. It is political genius for the Conservative Party to introduce a higher minimum wage. All of Labour’s spokespeople are speechless.

I can agree with Boris that the Tube and GMB strike are vexatious and deliberately timed to coincide with the first Tory budget since 1996.

I also agree with Boris that London’s hub airport would be best sited in the Thames Estuary.  We need this radicalism. It will create jobs and enormous wealth.  The very idea that we should build another runway at Heathrow is, in my view, close to a war crime.  It is a gross violation of humanity.  It is disgusting that we should even contemplate subjecting a dense population to such violation.

So this Tory radicalism excites me.  This sort of visionary, long-term politics is what Britain needs.  Add a dash of liberal back in and we could be getting there.