CALLED TO ORDURE
SIR Keir Starmer believes in “mission government”. What does that mean? Is it any more meaningful than “big society” or “levelling up”? The Commons public administration committee invited think-tankers to offer their expertise.
First up was Nathan Yeowell, founder of the Future Governance Forum, a left-leaning outfit funded by the likes of BT, Lloyds bank, the British Venture Capital Association and Amazon. With such backers he must be an incisive commentator, you might think, able to distil complicated ideas into a few crisp sentences.
Opening statements are usually perhaps a couple of sentences long. Yeowell’s lasted five minutes and ran to almost 1,000 words. “Essentially,” he began. What follows is a condensed version; for the unabridged masterpiece go to Parliament TV and put on some Schoenberg.