I hope this work, which entails listening to party members, communities and businesses, will help to shape the future thinking of the Party.
Whoever leads the Conservatives into the next election needs to gamble some of its political capital on winning over young, urban voters.
A catspaw of Osborne? A competitor to Policy Exchange? A resource for a modernising leadership candidate? The truth is more subtle and interesting.
The 1997 experience of Downing Street keeping the manifesto process to itself was unhappy. The Party needs to draw on wider talent to reinvent itself in government.
Analysis by the Centre for Social Justice shows that their views of the Party are unfavourable, and that their support could be crucial in a hundred marginal seats.