Amid the noise of the latest Westminster dramas, it would be easy to miss signs that some green shoots of pragmatic governance might be breaking through. From anti-inflation measures to progress on the Northern Ireland protocol, the government is displaying more long-term thinking than we’ve seen for years. The Labour Party, too, under the increasingly adept leadership of Sir Keir Starmer, is putting focused and practical policymaking above political showboating.
Time will tell whether Rishi Sunak’s measures will produce the goods, but that’s the inherent challenge of policymaking. Tackling entrenched problems requires commitment and resolve, a tension exacerbated when there are barely two years on the electoral clock.
Now Jeremy Hunt will try to address the challenge of setting Britain on a path to long-term
