Monday, 1 April 2019

Proposal for 'healing tsar' to reunite Britain after Brexit

Group meeting in secret also considers ideas for ‘Festival of Britain’ and live TV spectacular

Britain needs to take special measures if it is ever to recover from the scarring social divisions exacerbated by Brexit, says a working party drawn from the country’s leading institutions.

The Guardian understands one of the initiatives that has caught the imagination of the group is the creation of the post of “healing tsar” – a unifying figure to promote a feeling of national togetherness. Several well-known figures have been sounded out for the role, although there are worries that the politicians involved will try to parachute their own preferred candidate into the job.

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