{"id":589760,"date":"2026-05-18T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:13:07","slug":"national-conversation-aims-to-find-out-peoples-hopes-for-a-better-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589760\/","title":{"rendered":"National Conversation aims to find out people&#8217;s hopes for a better UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project will run until the end of August and the responses will be used in a report, due to be published later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is being led by the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, which describes itself as a non-partisan initiative responding to the &#8220;converging crises of social disconnection and division&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Conservative Chancellor Sir Sajid Javid, who co-chairs the Commission, said unless the country could &#8220;regain a shared sense of what unites us\u2026 we risk being torn apart by our differences. That vision won&#8217;t come from politicians &#8211; it can only come from the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Labour Policy Coordinator Jon Cruddas, who also co-chairs the Commission, said the National Conversation was &#8220;at the heart of how we rebuild a shared vision of our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People are being asked in their voice notes to include what they think unites us, divides us, and what might bring us closer together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Conversation is supported by organisations including the NHS, TikTok, the UK Muslim Network, the Church Urban Fund and English Football League in the Community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project will run until the end of August and the responses will be used in a report,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}