The Popular Conservatives are a new & fast-growing part of UK centre-right politics who, like us at the Centre for Small-State Conservatives, favour a smaller & more efficient state. So when they invited John to appear on their ‘PopConversation’ podcast, we thought it was worth a go! John & PopCon Director Mark Littlewood got on very well – you can watch the podcast below:
I like dome of your ideas but creating a regulator to audit or regulate qangos is just crazy. its another layer of government or regulation so not small state.
I want the government directly responsible for it. So if they dont do what’s supposed to be done we can vote them out.
And just dump the qangos and save all that money
Hi Liz I agree – which is why we aren’t proposing a ‘regulator of regulators’ at all. If you’re interested in the detail there’s are fuller (but still short & pithy we promise!) explanations in the Policy Thumbnails section of this website, under Slashing Red Tape https://smallstateconservatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Slashing-Red-Tape-CSSC.pdf and also A New Public Productivity Act https://smallstateconservatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/A-New-Productivity-Act.pdf Let us know your thoughts!
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