Did you notice that, just recently, care staff were ‘low-skilled’’; this week they are ‘key workers’.

We know now who really are our key workers: teachers, refuse collectors, delivery drivers, haulage drivers, engineers, nurses, health workers, third sector organisations, carers, cleaners – the list continues.

If there is one good to come out of this Covid-19 crisis, it may be the recognition that it is not those earning obscene amounts of money topped by even more obscene bonuses who are our key workers, but ordinary people who are often paid very little for their work and given a low status.

I sincerely hope that this new status will in the future be reflected in their remuneration and conditions.

No more zero hours contracts, no more unsecure work – people paid a Real Living Wage with full employment rights.

I hope that the increasing inequality between the highest and the lowest paid will be reversed and that it will be seen that a healthy society is one which recognises and rewards everyone appropriately for their contribution to the common good.

The Government has had to borrow huge amounts of money to deal with this Covid-19 crisis.

Theresa May must be delighted that at last the ‘magic money tree’ has been found; but can anyone tell me where it is planted?

Where is this money coming from?

It will, of course, have to be repaid whatever its source.

Perhaps the Government might be more keen to close the loopholes whereby enormous sums of money are secreted away in tax havens, robbing the country of vital funds.

Perhaps, after all, the renewal of Trident and its weapons of mass destruction could be scrapped.

Another list for another day.

ROSEMARY THEOBALDS

Hexham