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> The UK government isn't trying much policy for tackling the causes or the symptoms

It doesn't know what it wants, nor how to prioritise between conflicts from vague pre (and post) election statements. It certainly doesn't want to make the hard compromises that are actually required.

That said...

I wouldn't want the job of trying to balance the books, fix the housing backlog, modernise our energy infrastructure, integrate social and medical care, address social cohesion, manage persistent inequality, improve our global competitiveness etc etc etc

>>Ntrail+(OP)
I would, because despite having no idea how to accomplish any of that, I know how to delegate to people who do.

>>wizzwi+T31
Any one of those goals is probably accomplishable merely via delegation, assuming you can pick the right people (good luck!). To achieve all of them likely isn't. It may well be we cannot have all of them at once. Note that I just grabbed a subset of things that seem relevant, certainly not all of the things the government should care about.

I'm not saying nobody could run this country more effectively. I do strongly suspect the market for that kind of skillset is out of our current price range