I agree in principle that you can care about and adopt an issue you know nothing about. The problem is to do that in a productive way you have to actually deleg

I agree in principle that you can care about and adopt an issue you know nothing about. The problem is to do that in a productive way you have to actually delegate authority and then back whoever you delegated to. That's not what's happening here - the PM has decided on a nonsensical policy, and is pushing it despite not knowing anything about the subject area. We've seen this re-inforced today - they wanted to launch a PR campaign to support this policy. Who did they get to head this campaign? Stephen Follows, a film data analyst. Does Stephen agree with the policy? Nope! And I quote > Nobody thought to ask me whether I support this policy My concern is this - there are policy aims, like ending modern slavery or improving maths education (or even just improving the status of maths in the UK), and then there are actual policies. What Sunak is doing here is endorsing a policy in order to achieve a policy aim. But the policy he's endorsing is a policy that will be totally ineffective at achieving that aim. You're right - ideally the policy would've been worked on by Spads, domain experts, etc. But it wasn't. It was a half-cocked idea that he came up with by himself. How do we know this? The policy is nonsense! No one seriously thinks it will achieve the policy aim, you can't actually endorse a policy that both insists on more maths education and endorse a policy to give maths teachers a massive pay cut. I understand how this is meant to work, what i'm saying is it very clearly isn't working that way.