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Melanie Fyans's avatar

A point on transport links. I live in the South West which has fast and reliable trains to London but a season ticket from Swindon to Paddington (55 mins) is over £11k a year, making it unaffordable to all but high earners.

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Timothy Kasuka's avatar

Another way of breaking out of our economic and political inertia is to promote more devolution across different parts of England. We need to go beyond just having local mayors of select cities and create county governors with expanded autonomy.

This way counties have more room to experiment and generate a faster feedback loop on what does and doesn't work.

Westminster is broken and run by a cadre of out-of-touch elitists. We're a nation of nearly 70 million people, the unitary political system is outdated.

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