This morning, Priti Patel takes to the Daily Mail to write that she will insist on “much greater transparency from those who receieve UK”. Her article is carefully written to stress continuity with her Cameron-era predecessors. However, the paper has been briefed about her “fury at our wasted foreign” aid, and previous reports have stressed that aid will be used “in the national interest” to help build a series of new trade deals.
This is far from a complete list: for example, the Prime Minister reportedly wants to share a larger slice of fracking proceeds with local communities. Nor does it contain non-policy changes, such as the claim that celebrities are to be “shut out of Number Ten parties”. But it suggests a way in which Governments can renew themselves in office if the circumstances are right, namely: purge parts of the previous regime’s people and policies.