What would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UK
Lewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenLewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockMartin LewisWhat would make your life easier?
- ▪Lewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life.
- ▪Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenLewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life.
- ▪Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockMartin LewisWhat would make your life easier?
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| Publication time | Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:46:44 GMT |
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Lewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenLewis said he wanted to ‘fix some of the frustration points’ in everyday life. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockMartin LewisWhat would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UKFinance expert launches Small Ideas Initiative to gather ‘practical, low-cost’ ideas to put before cross-party panelRosie Peters-McDonaldThu 8 Oct 2026 12.46 EDTLast modified on Thu 8 Oct 2026 12.57 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleEvery day, people run into what the finance expert Martin Lewis calls “the life-potholes of unintended consequences” – clunky systems and poorly conceived rules that make things harder than they should…
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