Form follows function

By Martin Cresswell | 04 May 2016

David Cameron laid out his vision of a reformed public sector in a 2011 speech rich in personal stories, from his experience of NHS care with his own family to that of his constituents with meals on wheels.

Noticeably absent were calls for technocratic solutions to maintain the status quo from which, the prime minister argued, there could be ‘no progress’.

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