The Archbishop of Canterbury will spend the next two years as part of a commission launched by a left-leaning think-tank that aims to rewrite the rules for Britain’s post-Brexit economy. He will join, among others, the general secretary of the TUC and the chairman of the John Lewis Partnership on the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) programme that will seek remedies for six key UK weaknesses. These are seen to be: the fact that our successful economy masks weak investment; a trade deficit; a budget deficit that will grow as the population ages; the capture of the fruits of growth by a small minority; the gap between the south-east and the rest of the country; and poor progress in meeting the country’s climate change ambitions. None of these six problems is a recent phenomenon. Each one has been worsening for a quarter of a century. Downing Street is keenly interested in the commission’s work.