Stop making excuses and blaming the system, says Streeting

""This excuses culture does the centre-left no favours,""

""If we tell the public that we can't make anything work, then why on earth would they vote to keep us in charge?""

""a political perma-class that exists within every party and every department one whose entire focus is on preserving their status within a system that gives them meaning""

""Every time I go to pull a lever there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, [and] arm's-length bodies that mean that the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be.""

Wes Streeting urged Labour colleagues to stop making excuses and blaming the system for the slow pace of change in public services. A former close aide to Sir Keir Starmer argued that regulators, campaign groups and vested stakeholders have hobbled government and that the British state has grown while simultaneously emasculating itself. That aide described a political 'perma-class' focused on preserving status within the system. The prime minister said regulations, consultations and arm's-length bodies lengthen the time from decision to delivery. Streeting asserted that centre-left fortunes depend on action rather than external forces.

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