Boris Johnson has become Boris the Builder as he announced his strategy to get the UK out of the coronavirus economic slump.

So we will build better and build greener, but we will also build faster.

Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide to what's happened and happening in British politics from the Financial

Times with me Sebastian Payne.

This Saturday has been termed Independence Day, Super Saturday.

It's the day that the UK reopens, so what better time to reopen and

re-launch our politics podcast. It's the same series you know and love, but we've

branded in refresh in a way we think you'll enjoy.

In this episode I'll be discussing the Prime Minister's plan to pull the UK out of a recession

and his dramatic proposals for shaping Whitehall with political editor George Parker and columnist Robert Shrimsley.

And later, with political correspondent Laura Hughes and Foreign Affairs commentator Gideon

Rackman, will be discussing the UK's bold offers of visas and citizens. As Hello, I said, we're all behaving responsibly for this grand reopening.

I've got my face mask, social distancing, everything.

Well, it's lovely to have you on as ever.

We've been spending a lot of this week thinking about Franklin D Roosevelt who was the US President cited by

Boris Johnson as his inspiration for this British New Deal. Out of all the Roosevelt

who's your favour and what lesson do they have Robert?

Well I know you want to talk about Teddy so I won't talk about him too long though I think

it's interesting he could have been a far more obvious model for Boris Johnson

combining as it were attacks on sort of corrupt business and immense nationalism

though he's not quite as popular with the Black Lives Matter movement as he is with say

conservatives but I suppose I'm going to go off at a tension I'm going to say

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