The key problem of British politics is how to manage a country where the population expects a higher standard of living than its increasingly second league status can provide.

In one way or another we all suffer from a form of post-imperial, post-industrial entitled hubris.

The world has moved on leaving the UK with pockets of excellence dwarfed by sectors are far from world class.

Few politicians understand this or have a good plan to escape our predicament (if there is one?).

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