Shaping our future starts now.
The National Strategy Project is giving the UK something we've never had but urgently need: a trusted way to understand what we all want for our future - and a practical way to work together to achieve it
It's an ambitious, independent, cross-sector initiative — for everyone.
Shaping our future starts now.
What's happening?
We're going to ask the nation to define the future we all want and create a way to work together to achieve this.
We'll do this in three ways:
Dialogue
We'll provide the essential facts on the realities we face... then host thousands of conversations nationwide to find out what people care about most.
One technique we'll be using is Deliberative Polling. It's the world's most rigorously tested method for public deliberation, and is also proven to reduce polarisation, increase trust, and help people find common ground.
Strategy
We'll reflect the nation's goals and develop workable plans to deliver them - with experts from all sectors.
Together, these plans will form a shared, trusted and long-term national strategy - with the honest realism and public consent it needs to succeed.
Action
We'll set up a public delivery organisation responsible for the national strategy, that will:
- prompt political parties, government, private organisations and NGOs to act
- monitor actions taken so that voters can make informed choices at elections and hold leaders accountable
- forge a permanent national democratic capability that we can use again and again
No country has ever done this before.
Why now?
The UK has much to celebrate... but we're poorly set up to plan for our future.
We have great strengths, a culture to be proud of, a remarkable history and incredible people. But we face a storm of challenges - economic, demographic, security, geopolitical, technological and environmental.
Our politicians are driven by election pressures and extremist voices to seek out quick fixes and dodge difficult decisions.
Some of us are being left out or denied a fair opportunity - and we struggle to find realistic answers in a media environment distorted by misinformation.
We're left feeling frustrated, ignored and angry, at the mercy of forces beyond our control. Fragmented. Polarised.
Our future as a country will look very different from our past. But if we keep going the way we have been, others will decide our fate for us.
We now have the tools we need - to think, decide and act together for the long term.
We have a growing appetite for democratic participation, as well as lots of fresh ideas, talent and imagination.
For the first time in history, technology can give millions of people a real say in our democracy - and can help create a rich picture of the detailed views of a whole country.
If we harness all this, we can shape a national strategy together that has the public ownership it needs to succeed. For the first time ever we'll have a national strategy that's owned and shaped by people - not imposed.