On the morning of Thursday 13 March, the Prime Minister delivered a speech in Yorkshire that was trailed by government to be about the ‘bonfire of the quangos’. He opened his speech by reiterating the Labour Party’s election pledge to facilitate change in the country. As was a cornerstone of the party’s election rhetoric, the Prime Minister said “working people do not feel like the state and public services are working for them”, and that every pound of government money spent must deliver for the British people. Read what follows here.