Jon Cruddas on the cynicism of the Labour Party’s policy reviews…

“… this week is a really interesting one where we set up independent reviews to rethink social policy, economic policy, democracy, local government – they come up with ideas and they’re just parked, parked. And instead instrumentalised, cynical nuggets of policy to chime with our focus groups and our press strategies and our desire for a topline in terms of the 24 hour media cycle dominate and crowd out any innovation or creativity…”