We need to recognise that the government is broken and needs urgent repair

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We need to spend some time trying to sculpt a new government rule book (PA Wire)

The other day I imagined what it would mean for this country if we reinvented our outdated ways of government and threw out the old rule book.

Addressing the disastrous demands made on the NHS, which spends roughly half of its money on trying to keep poor people as healthy as they can. Addressing the terrible reality that our supposed top universities seem to produce another generation of people who might be good at dinner party repartee but not very good at helping the world through its constant crises. And who erode the concept of working for the public and the common good.

A recognition that the government is broken and needs urgent repair is my biggest wish. That there would be some time spent trying to sculpt a new government rule book. And that the latest spring Budget was not another fudging that avoids addressing the reasons why there is so much increasing poverty in society.