David Willetts: The stakeholder state, not inadequate politicians, is the problem

David Willetts: The stakeholder state, not inadequate politicians, is the problem

David Willetts is a Conservative peer, and served as a minister under John Major and David Cameron. Paul Ovenden was Sir Keir Starmer’s Director of Strategy in Downing Street up to September last year. Last Friday, he wrote a very interesting piece in the Times in which he tried to understand why a government elected with such a large majority is finding it so hard to do the important stuff, and instead gets diverted into issues such as the rele…