British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the coronavirus crisis needed the type of massive economic response US president Franklin D Roosevelt mobilised to deal with the Great Depression.
Mr Johnson told The Times newspaper's new radio station that Britain was heading for "bumpy times" as it struggles through its biggest economic contraction on record.
He intends to unveil a spending programme in a speech dubbed by his office simply as "build, build, build". "I think this is the moment for a Rooseveltian approach to the UK, really really moving forward," said Mr Johnson. "I really think the investment will pay off." President Roosevelt launched the New Deal programme in the 1930s that created a comprehensive social care system whose