• IN a recent Financial Times article Professor Mariana Mazzucato returns to some to the themes she outlined in her book The Entrepreneurial State – Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths.

It is interesting that she has taken the UN sustainable development goals as a starting point for the sort of targets we should be aiming for and that she believes that citizens’ assemblies can provide “different voices to design our future”.

As co-chair of the Camden Renewal Commission, I wonder what sort of recommendations that she might be thinking of for Camden – or local government in general – because as far as I can see her arguments are based on national governments.

Possibly there will be some suggestions about how local government can contribute to innovation and about citizens’ assemblies.

CLLR PAUL TOMLINSON
Labour, St Pancras & Somers Town ward