These were the notes I used to prepare for this morning's video. Usually I do not share these. Today, I thought it was worth doing so. Mark him against them in 2029.

The hook

• We will have a new, bright, shiny and smiley Prime Minister from Manchester on Monday
• But what will he do?
• In truth, we have no more idea about his agenda than we did about Keir Starmer's
• That does not augur well
• So here are some decisions he will need to make, and will do so by default if he does not address them
• By his actions will we know the man

Economic philosophy

1. To understand and use MMT thinking, or not
2. To use fiscal rules, or not
3. To make growth his goal, or not
4. To put well-being and flourishing at the epicentre of his agenda instead, or not
5. To tax wealth, more or not
6. To have a policy of full employment, or not
7. To leave the Bank of England independent, or not
8. To take control of interest rates, or not
9. To have genuinely integrated economic policy, or not

Housing

10. To build council houses, or not
11. To build these houses where people are, not where the government wants them, between Oxford and Cambridge, or not
12. To give councils the power to borrow to build, or not
13. To end the right to buy, or not

Energy and environment

14. To do a Green New Deal, or not
15. To build flood defences, or not
16. To do nuclear, or not
17. To allow oil and gas to continue in the North Sea, or not
18. To make every building a power station, or not

Infrastructure

19. HS2 to expand or even finish, or not
20. To allow Heathrow to expand, or not
21. To rebuild Manchester Oxford Road, or not
22. And Ely North Junction, and so much more on the rail network, or not

Utilities

23. To take control of water, or not
24. To control electricity pricing to favour consumers and not suppliers, or not
25. To invest heavily in the National Grid, or not
26. To improve regulation or not
27. To make nationalisation mandatory if standards are not met

Health

28. To eliminate the causes of so much ill health in the UK, from ultra-processed food to excessive prescribing, or not
29. To invest in support for those alienated by neoliberalism and deemed mentally unwell as a result, or not
30. To invest in midwives to let life start well, or not
31. To make hospice care an NHS provision, and right, or not

Education

32. To permit education that meets the needs of children to find out who they are, or not
33. To end the role of education in supplying pre-formed inputs for business use, or not
34. To end student loans and cancel the debt, or not
35. To free universities from the funding tyranny they now face, or not

Community

36. To invest in communities so that young people have places to go, things to do, and in alcohol free environments, or not
37. To support local government and enhance local decision making
38. To reform council tax to deliver local tax justice
39. To control the spread of second homes, requiring planning permission for use as such, or as a holiday home, and to charge for this right

Justice and social security 

40. To invest in rapid criminal justice, or not
41. To provide a social safety net for people to rely on, or not.

Migration

42. To reform migration policy, or not
43. To confirm the right of refugees, or not

Democracy

44. To do proportional representation, or not
45. To end all political donations over £5,000, or not
46. To end laws that discourage voting, or not
47. To allow free votes on independence in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland every decade, or not

Civil liberties and media

48. To channel laws on control of the media
49. To give the BBC freedom without continual government interference
50. To end oppressive laws on the right to protest
51. To end the use of anti-terrorism laws on those who oppose government policy, or not.

Foreign policy

52. To undertake a proper defence review, or not
53. To stand up to Israel, or not
54. To support Palestinians, or not
55. To stand up to the USA, or not.

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