'The PM’s flagship five pledges are a return to judging progress by numbers.'
'Michael Gove's comments highlighted the danger of prizing national statistics at the expense of understanding people’s everyday lives'. PIC: PA
But a ‘Dashboard’ premiership in No.10 risks slipping back to politics by statistics. The PM’s flagship five pledges are a return to judging progress by numbers - with a focus on headline figures rather than what success might feel like in communities across Yorkshire. In the last week, we’ve seen the limits of that approach. If progress towards meeting the PM’s pledges is the yardstick for success, then the IMF upgrading Britain’s growth prospects and inflation falling should have been cause for national cheer - instead, public optimism remains in short supply.
In polling for the New Britain project, we asked people to describe Britain in a word - the most popular answer was ‘broken’, followed by ‘mess’, and ‘struggling’. In separate polling, a third of the public told us they thought the cost of living crisis would never end. While in focus groups in places like Wakefield and Rother Valley, people despair that their days have become ‘work to live and live to work’. Bleak as the public’s prognosis is, it’s understandable.
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