The succession of Blairite governments that have run Britain over the past three decades put in place a judicial apparat that now serves as a rampart against change.
We need to ensure that those we elect to govern have a competent administrative machine through which they can govern.
Decision-making power isn’t overly concentrated; it’s mired in complexity. Elected officials are hamstrung by bureaucracy, and in key areas, policy control has been ceded to quangos, reducing ministers to mere lobbyists with limited influence.
Her new administration would be on the right side on the big issues – Brexit, immigration, Islamism; and would likely feel its way towards the right answer on the economy and trade.
For the most part, those in SW1 don’t actually set out to deceive the public. The trouble is – they deceive themselves.
From Spain to Italy to America, parties of organised labour are in trouble. The blue collar base didn’t come out for them – and may not come out for Corbyn either.
What we are witnessing right now is one of those magnificent moments in British political history; a great Tory pivot.
However tedious the idea of civil service reform might seem, such reforms are perhaps the most critical changes any new government can make. Unless the next administration has a plan for civil service reform, they don’t have a plan to govern.