Here is a fun exercise to fill all that time I know you probably do not have. Imagine you have a blank sheet of paper in front of you. You have one job: to lay out the design of a system of government.

Looking at England – the diversity of its communities, the complexity of its landscape, the areas of terrible deprivation and the places of enormous prosperity – how would you arrange our systems of government and public services? How would you start to fill in that blank page?