So far, so good. And it is undoubtedly a success story. But. Floods are getting bigger due to a rapidly changing climate. During the floods of 2020 every flood defence on the Severn & Wye was within 0.5-1.0m of overtopping. It will have been a similar story last week.

Here's the proof of that story we've read in that book 🥺😮

Lisa Nandy to DCMS staff: “For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation has not reflected them, their communities or their lives. This is how polarisation, division and isolation thrives. In recent years we’ve found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another. And lost that sense of a self-confident, outward looking country which values its own people in every part of the UK. Changing that is the mission of this department. *The era of culture wars is over.*”

A former government chief scientific adviser as science minister. A businessman with years of experience in rehabilitation as prisons minister. A barrister with years of experience as attorney general. A focus on specialism, domain knowledge and expertise.