Mr Penrose, I’ve over a long period not only voted for you, I’ve also kept in touch via the newsletter. My question is with the good, pragmatic and sensible suggestions you raise/discuss – how much of this content gets onto number 10’s to do list – regardless of whether its a labour PM or a conservative PM. As I’m certain that if your good work and no doubt the good work of other MP’s (regardless of political colour) did land on the PM’s desk, our great country would be in a better place.
Thank you for your time and contribution.
Regards
Ray.
Hi Ray many thanks for your kind comments about these ideas (and for your electoral support too!). The short answer to your question is that quite a few of these proposals have made it into law (for example many of the ideas on Competition policy in ‘Power To The People’ are now embedded in the recent Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Act) but, inevitably, there are many others that haven’t (yet!). It will be harder to persuade a Labour government to look at them, because politics is pretty tribal, but people forget that the 2nd half of the famous saying about ‘a week is a long time in politics’ is ‘but a year is no time at all’. So I promise I will keep pushing, cajoling & persuading, and with the support of people like yourself we should be able to get more of these ideas in place over time. Best JP
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