Britain does not only need growth rhetoric. It needs delivery systems.

Britain has no shortage of people who can say the word growth on a podcast.

What it lacks is enough public argument about the machinery that decides whether anything actually gets built, staffed, approved, delivered, repaired, or maintained once the speech is over.

The strongest part of the current pro-growth scene is not the rhetoric. It is the attention being paid to state capacity, permissions, institutional design, and the hidden operating systems of local and national government.

This matters politically because voters can smell theatre. They may not use the phrase _state capacity_, but they can see when promises repeatedly smash into the same wall of delay, process fog, and nobody-owning-the-outcome behaviour.

Future Union should treat this as one of its clearest openings. A future-first politics that ignores delivery systems is still just a posture. A future-first politics that can explain why things stall, who owns the stall, and what would make delivery real starts to feel like a serious alternative.