Just before she retired from the House of Commons the former Prime Minister Theresa May delivered our inaugural Churchill-Attlee Democracy Lecture before a 200-strong audience gathered in Westminster to mark the Hansard Society's 80th Anniversary. Drawing on her decades in public life she argued that:
- Parliament needs to be cherished but also strengthened;
- too many MPs enter politics with the sole ambition of becoming ministers, which weakens their focus on serving constituents and the broader public interest;
- MPs should place greater focus on being legislators and receive better training to help them fulfil their complex role more effectively;
- MPs should value compromise, seeing it not as a weakness but as an essential tool of governance and the way to make meaningful progress in a democracy.
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