Martin Lewis's warning on broken Westminster system should be heeded: The Yorkshire Post says

Responding to a report on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Lewis light-heartedly said he would “rather wire my nipples to electrodes” than be Prime Minister – but then went on to make some serious and important points about the failures of the country’s current political system.

Mr Lewis says our “overly adversarial” political system requires those involved to “sell policies they disagree with” and “play the system” rather than trying to serve the public.

He has an undoubted point – policies from both the Conservatives and Labour are all-too-frequently assessed in terms of how they will hurt or hinder electoral chances rather than whether they are actually the right thing to do or not.

To take just two recent examples, this applies to the Tories’ Rwanda policy and Labour’s ever-evolving pledge for multi-billion investment in green industries and technology.

It was striking in the focus groups that there were not only generally dim views of both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer but also a widespread sense across voters of all persuasions that public services are on their knees and the country is going in the wrong direction.

Their points about the problems with the Westminster bubble were immediately borne out by Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and former Minister Nadine Dorries aiming jibes at each other about political plotting on the same show.

Mr Lewis evidently won’t be joining either party any time soon – but Labour and the Conservatives should be taking heed of his comments, along of those being made by increasingly fed-up voters.