The more obvious an idea is, the less likely it is to happen

The longer you work in policy the more you realise new ideas are extremely rare.

Even ideas that seem new are usually old ones repackaged and given a different spin.

The more obvious the idea, the less likely it is to happen, says Simon Tisdall.

He says there are three core barriers that prevent the obvious ideas happening.

Post-16 education spending has been cut by aroun hundred espite politicians' pleas for it.

This is because it can be while keeping promises to protect school budgets.

The same trick was applied to post-16 spending in education which falls outside the government’s definition of schools.

Misdiagnosis means politicians pull at the wrong policy levers.

The real skill is figuring out how to make the ideas we have happen, Freed argues.

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