The programme introduction: the country has been redesigned to work for people at the top. This series describes what a government that wanted to reverse that would actually do - a series covering food security, energy, industrial capacity, the NHS, housing, fiscal architecture, defence, social security, governance, and the press.
The baseline inventory of what the UK government faces as of mid-2026: food, energy, fiscal, health, and geopolitical pressures all compounding simultaneously across every major policy dimension. The UK is not facing a management problem - it is facing a structural problem of managed decline.
