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Theresa May planned to use Brexit to shake up the system. Her former speechwriter Chris Wilkins told The Westminster Hour's John Beesley the Prime Minister needs to recapture that early spirit. He said: "People felt we needed to find a reason to talk about why we were having an election, rather than simply saying it's to get a mandate for the economic and social reforms that I think flowed from the referendum result. People were asking, 'What are you going to do to address the criticisms I have which are about public services and austerity and opportunities for young people?'. And really those were the questions we needed to answer and unfortunately we didn't."