If you were Prime Minister for the day what would you change?

If you were Prime Minister for the day what would you change?

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If I was Prime Minister there are policy areas that I would change immediately. We are putting a lot of money into social housing and Gordon Brown has really prioritized that, a Housing Minister in the cabinet is amazing, that's fantastic. I would make it even more of a priority. I don't think that people understand how it ruins your life if you don't have a house. Kids, it affects their education, even if you do have a house but it's poor housing, etcetera, it affects your health, it affects your prospects, everything. So if I were Prime Minister for a day I would assure that they quadrupled, or even more, the number of socially affordable housing that we're building. I would also look at youth services really radically because people say that, "Oh and social behavior, young people they're out of control, etcetera." But we need to do much more; we need to give young people a real voice. And the other thing I'd do, I'd try and make it a long day maybe, the other thing I'd do is I'd really change the way we do politics. I would say politicians have to change; they have to give up some of their power so that other people can be involved, normal people. I'm not saying politicians aren't always normal but ordinary people who aren't obsessed with politics have to be able to have a voice in their community and I'd change the way that we involve people in politics.