Politics today isn’t broken because politicians are bad people – it’s broken because the system no longer allows them to be good ones.

In The Performance of Politics, Adam Tugwell explores how Westminster has become a theatre of survival, where winning and staying in power matter more than governing. From the collapse of moral leadership to the rise of scandal politics, this piece unpacks how decades of structural drift have turned politics into performance – and why the public now sees through it.

It’s a call for honesty, courage, and the return of real leadership in a system that has forgotten what leadership means.