A budget wishlist for the chancellor

‘Rachel Reeves should be bolder and raise even more for investment into our crumbling public services.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

An excellent condensed budget speech that the chancellor should give (Editorial, 26 October). I have two further points for the red book.

First, social housing should be a number one priority. An expanded social housing programme will deliver well-paid jobs, reduce the housing benefit bill, homelessness costs for councils and upward pressure on private rents, and stop the rightwing cry that there is no housing for locals.