Gareth Shaw: Is the Lifetime Isa dead in the water?

In his final Budget as Chancellor in 2016 – before he reinvented his career as a crusading newspaper editor – George Osborne announced, with his usual theatrical pomp, that the Government was creating a new savings account – the Lifetime Isa – to empower the under-40s who, he said, “haven’t had… a good deal from the pension system.”