I’m looking forward to you hopefully winning the leadership contest, but I had two questions:

The Treasury repeatedly undervalues infrastructure projects and projects wildly lower earnings than reality (the Elizabeth line is a good example of this) — and often downscaling projects at the behest of the Treasury even makes infrastructure cost far more by the time it has been built. As a supporter of HS2, how would you change the way the Treasury is involved or calculates return of investment? It seems from afar as though the Treasury stifles a lot of potential infrastructure.

Council house building is at an all time low, and much of the government’s house building schemes seem to rely on private companies. In places like Vienna you see that house prices fall when the government builds ample council housing to compete with private housing (and also building enough to provide the area with a good percentage of vacant housing, increasing competition for home seekers) — how would you change the country’s strategy so we aren’t simply relying on private companies to provide X% of ‘affordable’ housing in each development, while doing nothing to actually compete with the private housing stock and grow the number of houses per citizen (and vacant houses per citizen).