Having spent my working life in the aerospace supply-chain, growing what started as a boutique parts company to be the largest supplier in its sector for Europe, my focus has always been on systems and structures; a good salesperson can make a good deal while a great system will fulfil more people, more readily.

The British “settlement” looks starkly wrong when observed through that lens. It lacks consequences for miscreants, it lacks the legitimacy it should have through the approval of those it seeks to govern and it massively lacks visibility. It’s my firm view that reform to a consequential, consensus-derived constitution is a vital step on the road to correcting the UK’s imbalance in wealth and opportunity because they stem from our inherent imbalance in power. Currently the UK system’s incentives are all wrong.