Are voters ready for Britain’s economy to be rewired?

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Voters are becoming more open to calls for a radical change to the way the economy is organised and more accepting of the role of government in pushing through significant reforms, according to a major poll of public attitudes last week.

Sixty per cent of respondents to a YouGov poll of more than 1,600 people were in favour of the next government making "moderate" or "radical" changes to the way the British economy is run, while only 2% said the government should leave the economy as it was. Those in favour of change split between 29% who backed moderate policies and 31% who wanted a more radical agenda.