Many people are fed up with how politics works in this country, and equally fed up with our stagnant economy. I was therefore really encouraged this week to see my boss Keir Starmer tackle both those issues head on.

Two year ago, Keir created the Commission for the UK’s Future, appointing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to lead some deep thinking on how we turn the country around. This week, that Commission published it’s landmark report, and there is heaps to be excited about in it.

Firstly, Labour will reignite our economy by empowering our towns, cities regions and nations to work together on local growth plans with new powers over skills, transport, planning and culture, all helping to drive growth by developing hundreds of new clusters of economic activity. Frankly, successive Conservative governments have talked hot air on levelling up for years with very little sign of any fundamental change. These new powers would mean real freedom for areas like ours to determine their own ambitious future.

Secondly, Labour will rebuild trust in politics by reforming our centre of government – cleaning up sleaze in Westminster, creating formal partnerships between central Government and devolved authorities. Importantly, a Labour government would in its first term replace the unelected House of Lords with a with a new, smaller, cheaper, and democratically elected second chamber to represent the regions and nations of the UK and act as custodians of change.

Thirdly, Labour will reunite our country with new missions based on our shared values and priorities, cooperating to tackle climate change and address inequality. And Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the regions of England will have a new status and a new voice, in a reformed and modern United Kingdom. We need a United Kingdom that works for every area, so that we can stay successfully united evermore.

This is all part of Keir’s wider plan to build an economy by the many, and of the many. It is the sort of bold vision for a better country that Britain has been crying out for. No more navel gazing or facing inwards; it is time to reach higher, wider and better.

What Gordon and Keir presented was a compelling vision of how we can break Britain’s economic and political malaise and offer a fairer, greener future to the whole of our United Kingdom. We will set out our final plans in our manifesto, but if you’ve ideas you want to feed in before then, please drop me an email at jonathan.reynolds.mp@parliament.uk