Mandelson sketches out his policy vision for Labour

Peter Mandelson’s interview in Progress is well worth reading. In it, he sets out the three areas where he thinks Labour needs to up its policy game:

“First, social mobility where Labour needs to provide ‘new ladders for working-class youngsters to climb, taking advantage of the growing aspiration of … parents for their children to go to university.’ Second, the party also needs to outline a vision for ‘the jobs of the future … regearing our economy and our sources of employment to match the opportunities the changing global economy is going to offer’. Finally, Mandelson advocates ‘further individualisation of our public services’. In education and health, particularly, he argues, Labour needs to give ‘real meaning to people power, parent power [and] patient power’.”