If there is one thing that unites people in Britain, it is their disdain for Westminster. People have generally had enough of paying for the mistakes of politicians. This deeply held sentiment will not be resolved by a new set of policy-makers without new relations of power.

This report looks at how power and influence are distributed unequally across British society. It argues that the next wave of democratic reform should be guided by the principle of political equality. If people are to once again be authors of their own lives, to once again feel secure, they must sense they have influence in the collective decision-making endeavour that is democracy.