By Ryan Wain

The only constant in politics today is volatility.

Party loyalties that once felt unshakable have fractured. Voters are searching for change, and in that search they will go anywhere – as the steady flow of councillors and activists towards Reform shows.

What Reform has understood is the national mood. They don’t have a detailed programme, but they’ve captured something real: the sense that Britain isn’t working as it should, and that people want answers now, not later.

This feeling isn’t confined to Britain. In our recent paper Disruptive Delivery, the Tony Blair Institute surveyed over 12,000 people across the UK, US, Australia, Canada and France. The results were sobering. Just 26% of people in the UK believe the next generation will be better off than the last – the lowest figure of any country surveyed.........

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