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Scandals and Speakers come and go, clamours and controversies build, explode and fade. The enduring Big Question of British politics is about public services. How do we make our schools, our hospitals and our police forces responsive and accountable to those who use them? How do we reward those who perform well and penalise those who fail the public? How do we encourage innovation among the professionals while at the same maintaining minimum national standards? How do we maximise the bang we get for all those taxpayers' bucks? Whoever can find the complete answer will have reached the Holy Grail.

Labour has been on this quest for more than a decade. Tomorrow, the government will present its latest answer when Read Full Article ››