Insurgent government: How mainstream parties can fight off populism and rebuild trust in politics

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Across the western world it feels like a sea change is occurring in our politics. At the heart of this is a simple fact: large numbers of people increasingly feel that mainstream politics is failing to deliver for them. 

As a result, mainstream parties are seeking to innovate to address these concerns. One proposal is for these mainstream governments to become ‘insurgent’. But this concept has not been fully defined – and new political slogans are easy to say and hard to turn into a reality. 

This report attempts to address this: we define what an insurgent government should stand for and how it can deliver real change.

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