This year has taken a very different path from any we expected, but I have not lost sight of our ambitious plans to unite and level up our country. Just as science will enable humanity to rout Coronavirus, so we will use the UK’s extraordinary powers of invention to repair the economic damage and build back better. Now is the time to plan for a green recovery – with high-skilled high-paid jobs that offer the extra satisfaction of helping to make our nation cleaner, greener and more beautiful.