The laws I'd like to see

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1. When an organisation (yes, I'm looking at you Tesco, but so many others too) listens to one individual or lobby group, it has to listen to representatives of all the other protected characteristics and support them all equally.
2. Single sex provision to be mandatory. No playing with words.
3. When housing is built, the appropriate infrastructure must go with it (schools, sports facilities, access to doctors & dentists, road improvements, meeting rooms, libraries, green spaces, etc).
4. If a house builder gets planning permission & local approval by promising to build a certain number of affordable homes, if they then declare it uneconomical to build said affordable homes, planning permission is automatically withdrawn.

Roads: No lay-by? No bus stop.

And make it a criminal offence for males, regardless of certificates or beliefs, to enter.

There's loads of good suggestions on this thread but I particularly like this.

It is similar to setting consequences with children. Far more effective than punishment.

Make composting cremation (terramation) legal in this country. It's the way I'd like to be dispatched.

On the same lines; health minister to spend a week in health settings. One day in an A&E, one day shadowing a nurse on a ward, one day with a GP, one day on a paramedic shift (including sitting in an ambulance at the hospital for hours, while waiting for the patient to be admitted!), one shift shadowing a junior doctor in a hospital.

There should be. 20mph speed limit in built up areas not a 30mph speed limit.

Single use vapes should be banned completely. In fact ideally vapes should be banned full stop.

I would make them prescription only for those trying to stop smoking.

Ban any public sector organisation from applying for or seeking any external award, charter mark or certificate. And ban any political symbols - specifically including rainbows and pride flags (and any other sexually or trans flag)

OK that seems a fair point. However, vapes don’t seem to have any evidence of safety yet so if that’s not certain, maybe it’s better for prescriptions to stick to the traditional giving up smoking supports like patches?

I would reintroduce secondary modern type education. With NO STIGMA. And in these schools students like my daughter who hate subjects like history, English literature etc would not have to study those. Pupils would be able to take control of their education and choose subjects that will benefit them in the future - eg. A student with interests in building would be able to choose a suite of GCSE type qualifications in vocational subjects in conjunction with decent supporting subjects such as business studies, maths, marketing & web design, science, English language and some sort of language. Teaching them skills that are relevant to the world of work, giving them the skills to work for themselves. But the most important thing would be that this would not be denigrated as too thick to do anything else. We need all sorts of people in the world, not just to try and push everyone in the same direction. IMO the roots of the disengagement of lots of pupils with education can be found in forcing non-academic kids to keep on with subjects they hate. Nothing less motivating that spending years studying stuff you don't want to learn and failing over and over again because your brain isn't wired that way to kill off teens' self esteem and motivation to learn. They just are stuck in a perpetual cycle of failing, being set up to fail and believing they are useless.

pupils with an academic leaning can continue as they always have done.

i would remove ofsted gradings completely and completely overhaul the schools inspectorate. Primary school testing, league tables, all of it would be scrapped. GCSEs and A level results would be delivered through mini exams throughout the course, a final exam maybe worth 25% and coursework. This would give all children an opportunity to do well in at least one element of assessment, if you hate coursework you've got the exams to do well in, smaller topic based exams for those that struggle with revising an entire 2 year syllabus in one go and coursework to show you can do project work and steadily work.

schools inspectors would have to do at least 1 month back in the classroom every year just in case they forget what it's like teaching 30 teenagers.

cookery and health/nutrition would be compulsory for all students in all secondary settings throughout their entire education. They could drop the endless First World War and Shakespeare plays to make room for it. This would allow children to learn essential skills that are clearly lacking in society that loads of parents cannot deliver but that imho are essential to develop a healthy country. The one thing we all need to do, not matter what you do in life, is eat.

hopefully my changes would mean pupils were more engaged with learning and more focussed in class which might help solve some of thr discipline issues that have put so many of our teachers off their career.

And the primary role of education would not be to get as many pupils to get good exam results as possible.

the role of education would be to find out what each and every child is good atand passionate about and help them develop their talents into something that will support them in adulthood. Whether that is needlework or sports science or the geography of volcanoes.

Discrimination against fat people to be illegal. I don’t mean ignore the health implications of being overweight or that weight should never be considered in relation to clinical decisions if this is a genuine issue for a specific procedure. I mean actually using someone’s weight to make derogatory comments and judgements both to individuals and as a group or to deny employment, opportunities etc based on subjective reasons. This is simply not right. It seems to be the last acceptable prejudice.

End no fault divorce laws to allow a spouse’s behaviour to be taken into account in financial settlements.