Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics

Politics needs to be turned off and started again. At a time when Britain is wrestling with the question of what sort of nation it wishes to be, our politics is stuck. Our archaic constitution is cracking. Power is hoarded by a distant and unresponsive centre and our two largest political parties have both been captured by those on their outer edges. A large tract of political ground lies unoccupied and too many of us have become politically homeless. offers a road map to a different political future. Hopeful, indignant and inspirational it is a book for anyone who feels that politics no longer speaks to them. Tracing the fault lines in our current, fractured political landscape it proposes new answers to the urgent questions facing us today – questions of education, of work, of health, of housing, of security, of inequality, and above all of how we can achieve a better future. shows us how to mend the broken promises of British politics.