Or fetter the provision of welfare entitlements, such as free school meals, for the most vulnerable?

Besides investment in infrastructure it recommends continued reform of labour markets and welfare entitlements, extra focus on employee retraining and moves to cut the cost of job creation.

Welfare entitlements would be more clearly based on contribution.

That means tough policies such as time-limited welfare entitlements (to get the long-term unemployed into work) and rapid increases in the state retirement age.

Its signature policies included the opportunities presented by automation, increasing housing supply and returning to a situation where welfare entitlements are linked to how much tax you pay.