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If we “re-wire” the state, how much should government do?

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There is a consensus that the state must be more efficient, but less attention has been paid to how much it should actually do, says Eliot Wilson .

The state does much more than it did a century ago , he says.

But the state in 2023/24 spent 45 per cent of our GDP, and it hardly spent it well.