It doesn’t have to be this way
The UK has strengths & resources to do better
- Talented people
- Strong universities and businesses
- Scientific excellence
- A long democratic tradition
- Access to capital
- Deep reserves of civic energy and public spirit
With such strengths, we should be able to build a country where the young can afford homes, start families, build stable lives and expect their prospects to improve; where technology strengthens society rather than fraying it; where the basics simply work; and where people are proud of what they are and what they will pass on.
Whether we do so depends on what we choose to do next
Shaping a better future requires us to build the missing democratic capability
The National Strategy Project exists to fill this gap at the heart of our national life. We are building a way to give people the agency to shape our shared future.
We will use this national strategic capability to create the first National Strategy shaped by our people – a clear, public account of our society’s shared goals and what we are prepared to do to achieve them, ready before the next general election.
This will demand honesty about the challenges ahead, making the hard choices together and a commitment to do what it takes to see them through — choices about energy, housing, defence, technology, pensions, care, education and economic security, and on the kind of society we mean to be..