All Governments, ours included, should be judged on what they do to improve people's quality of life in a sustained and a sustainable way. Now, since we came to power, we have been advancing towards that goal, laying the path towards a net zero-carbon economy, building thousands of new homes, and making education more accessible for more people. And then the pandemic arrived. Almost immediately, COVID-19 revealed one particularly troubling aspect of our economy: just how fragile it is. It showed that we have been operating on a very thin margin for many years. We squeezed everything out of global supply chains in the name of just-in-time efficiencies, and the pandemic has shown us just how vulnerable that system can be. But we also squeezed everything out of our people and the pandemic has shown just how vulnerable they are when a crisis strikes.